Geographies of Urban Solid Waste Management in India

Singh, E. Ishwarjit and Rai, Simona and Khan, Masihulla and Khan, Kashif Ullah (2024) Geographies of Urban Solid Waste Management in India. GRADUS, 11 (1). pp. 1-9. ISSN 2064-8014

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Abstract

Rapid urbanization and globalization increase consumerism in developing countries specially in India. As a consequence, municipal solid waste (MSW) has been exponentially increased in last two decades and posed a great challenge to manage. Government has taken many initiatives, policies and collaborated with private company to solve these issues of waste but lack of scientific approach, money, political will, conflict, interest of planners, it stands undisputed problem of urbanization. Different degree of environmental degradation takes place due to MSW in different ecosystems and also it affects health of urban people. This paper analyzes municipal solid waste generated in 59 cities of India which categorized into six regions to understand spatio-temporal quantum of waste generated by each city, nature of management and problem at regional level.

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