WASTE MANAGEMENT HIERARCHY

                                        WASTE MANAGEMENT HIERARCHY 

Definition of waste and hazardous waste : 

• Waste is a product which is no longer suitable for its intended use.

• Hazardous waste is a waste which has potential to cause harmful effect on human health or the environment.

 4R concept can be followed in any waste generation areas which can reduce your waste generation level substantially (both in industry & society). 4R are as follows

    1. Reduce : 

                        Reduce means reducing the waste generation at source itself.

Examples are use drying methods like paddle dryer, solar sludge dryer to reduce the industrial sludge moister consent which can reduce the sludge generation.

    2. Re-use : 

                        Check the possibility of re-using of the generated waste in the same application or some other application.

Examples are use of steel tea cups in place of paper cups, Use of copper bottles instead of one time usage water bottles, Usage of bags (Cloth etc) instead of plastic bags, re-using of chemical cans in Waste treatment plants, effluent treatment plants etc

    3. Recycle : 

                        Always try to use materials which are possible to recycle. Eliminate single usage plastic/material. Recycling a waste may not be possible at our end, so select vendor who has capable to carryout this and dispose it accordingly.

Examples are use of plastics/paper packing instead of single usage plastic.

    4. Recovery : 

                        If the above 3 options are not possible, we can go for recovering energy form the waste.

Example are Check/analysis the characteristics of the materials. Based on the result, if the result has high calorific value the same waste can be used as an alternate fuel in cement industry instead of coal. Which can reduce the consumption of our natural resource.

Always try to follow the 4R concept on waste management. Try to avoid dumping in land, it is major source of contamination and pollution. Dumping in land will affect our eco system very badly. Let us unit for creation of safe environment for our next generation.

Check the above said points and comment if any point got missed out. Please feel free to comment.