NEED FOR A TOTAL WASTE MANGEMENT SCHEME:
As the populations increase and become fast paced urban waste generation are increasingly difficult to handle in a macro-scale. Mechanized methods exclude bio-diversified methods of natural bio-waste recycling methods. Nature sustaining processes which add to the vibrancy of life are ignored.
As a consequence; ineffective handling of wastes and pollution of water sources occur, the city and town scopes we inhabit grow un-sustainable every day. In an effort to create more eco-friendly spaces, the government has come up with forestation & lake rejuvenation schemes, rainwater harvesting schemes and waste segregation for the reuse of general municipal waste.
Assessing the results in the vicinity of the spaces that we live; such as homes, schools, colleges, commercial complexes, hospitals, etc.; the pollution of the land and water bodies and air is all too evident. Cities and towns are starved of nature and its self-sustaining properties.
The perception is that large scale or macro level treatment of waste handling has resulted in unmanageable proportions. Further labor-intensive requirements and mechanical maintenances have rendered many of these solid-waste and water recycling plants uneconomical.
As such it has resulted in the failure of many of these waste water treatment plants.
Examples of waste water treatment plants becoming non-functional and consequent pollutions of urban spaces are frequent in the populous complexes. Apart from the loss to the exchequer: the amount of waste generated – both organic and inorganic increases exponentially. Bio sustaining water – a precious commodity – is becoming scarcer in this chaotic scenario.
Disease such as dengue and its vectors spread by an ineffective environment to handle pests such as mosquitoes and viruses are dominant.
Hence the problem needs to be solved in a sustainable manner wherein the results of a healthy environment is evident .