Decentralized Solid Waste Management in Urban Areas: A Review

  • Desai S
  • Shah M
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Abstract

Composting is the cheap and best method for disposal of organic Waste and Converts it in to valuable product. In latest world, stable waste management has grown to be one of the major problems in the course of the good environment. With the development of human civilization and the rapid increase of the population, the sources of waste are more than one and the garbage generated become more complicated, as a result the environment is becoming infected daily. To eliminate such type of dangerous environment and health risks solid waste have to be taken care of through order of several components and then they're handled one at a time available for the reused or recycled site. Mechanical composting process was used to recycle the solid waste and to get fertilizer as an end product. In this paper, many of successful decentralized composting units in Surat are analyzed and its end product as fertilizer analyzed and nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P) and potassium (K) or NPK value obtained. Fertilizer could be used as soil conditioner and in gardening too.

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Desai, S. N., & Shah, M. A. (2018). Decentralized Solid Waste Management in Urban Areas: A Review. International Journal of Current Engineering and Technology, 8(01). https://doi.org/10.14741/ijcet.v8i01.10882

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