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Waste collection truck in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. The global e-waste monitor, a collaboration between the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the United Nations University, estimated that India generated 1.975 million tonnes of e-waste in 2016 or approximately 1.5 kg of e-waste per capita.
Waste collection is a part of the process of waste management. It is the transfer of solid waste from the point of use and disposal to the point of treatment or landfill . Waste collection also includes the curbside collection of recyclable materials that technically are not waste , as part of a municipal landfill diversion program.
Emptying a pit manually in Burkina Faso. Manual scavenging is a term used mainly in India for "manually cleaning, carrying, disposing of, or otherwise handling, human excreta in an insanitary latrine or in an open drain or sewer or in a septic tank or a pit".
The waste management literature [25] for developing countries includes informal collectors at several levels: first, to understand what proportion of waste is already being collected by them; and second, to study how a waste management programme would affect their livelihoods, either positively (by improving sanitation) or negatively (by ...
Bottles in different colours Mixed colour glass cullet Public glass waste collection point for different colours of containers. Glass recycling is the processing of waste glass into usable products. [1] Glass that is crushed or imploded and ready to be remelted is called cullet. [2] There are two types of cullet: internal and external.
The non-ferrous waste stream requires other techniques to sort. In contrast to wrecking yards, scrapyards typically sell everything by weight, instead of by item. To the scrapyard, the primary value of the scrap is what the smelter will give them for it, rather than the value of whatever shape the metal may be in.
Strong earthquake kills at least 9 people in western China. Weather. Associated Press. Terremoto de magnitud 7,1 deja 9 muertos en el oeste de China. Advertisement. Advertisement. Advertisement.
Kerbside collection or curbside collection is a service provided to households, typically in urban and suburban areas, of collecting and disposing of household waste and recyclables. It is usually accomplished by personnel using specially built vehicles to pick up household waste in containers that are acceptable to, or prescribed by, the ...