Kitchen Waste Management for Sustainability

by John Steffen Consultant Managing kitchen wastes or urban wastes is one of the major problems that are on rise in the urban areas. In India nearly 250kg of solid wastes per person is generated in a year an out of this waste 60% is made up of organic matter. The precious wet waste can potentially become black gold, but it remains as unusable junk inside our landfills and in addition it releases harmful toxin gases due to anaerobic decomposition. By mixing this organic waste with the recyclable waste (paper, plastic, metal), we make even the recyclable waste less recoverable. The citizens should take up the responsibilities of source segregation and composting to ensure a clean and garbage free city.

There are grain storage containers and kitchen storage bins available in the market for storing and managing the waste. So let’s get started with proper usage of bins at home to do our part towards reducing the piling up of landfills. The key to efficient waste management is to ensure proper segregation of waste at source and to ensure that the waste goes through different streams of recycling and resource recovery.

Effects of improper waste disposal and management

The improper management and lack of disposal technique of the domestic waste creates hazardous impact on the environment.

• It pollutes the environment and affects the water bodies.
• It also changes the physical, chemical and biological properties of the water bodies.
• The scattered wastes reaches to the water bodies through run-off and it percolate to underground water.
• The toxics contain in the waste, contaminates water.
• These wastes make soil infertile and decrease the agricultural productivity.
• Drains also get clogged due to uncollected waste and improper disposal techniques which lead to mosquitoes by which various diseases like malaria, chicken-guinea, viral fever, dengue etc. arise and affect the health of people adversely.

The kitchen storage bin supplier provides various types of domestic garbage bins at reasonable rate, thus helping in collection of waste at the source.

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Created on Apr 24th 2018 01:32. Viewed 361 times.

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