` Gongcheng Kexue Yu Jishu/Advanced Engineering Science
[This article belongs to Volume - 54, Issue - 02]
Gongcheng Kexue Yu Jishu/Advanced Engineering Science
Journal ID : AES-26-12-2022-115

Title : PRE AND POST PANDEMIC SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT- A GENERAL PERSPECTIVE
Niladri Sekhar Roy, Simranjeet Singh, Kanak Dwiedi

Abstract :

The COVID-19 pandemic introduced many new challenges globally including the Municipal Solid Waste Management (MSWM). In pre pandemic era MSWM was facing many obstacles and difficulties nationwide and now this picture became worst in post pandemic era. The data of solid waste generation per day has drastically accelerated and also getting mixed with biomedical waste. Huge numbers of non-point sources of contagious wastes made the Municipal Solid Waste Management more challenging and complex to handle. This study emphasizes the challenges of existing waste management facilities are facing to treat huge waste generation. India was one of the highest COVID positive cases across world which led huge biomedical waste generation. Therefore, the study has focused to enlighten and discuss the problems of waste management in various stages in our country and to share some solutions