A REVIEW PAPER ON PLANNING OF SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT PLANT – A CASE STUDY FOR INDAPUR CITY

Abstract

This paper state that existing solid waste management practices in Indapur municipal area of Pune district of Maharashtra state, India. Solid waste management is among the basic essential services provided by municipal authorities in the country to keep cities clean. Due to industrialization, rural to urban migration and high growth rate of population have induced rapid urbanisation in developing countries and obviously in India also. The haphazard urbanisation created acute problem of solid waste management. The per capita waste generation rate in India has increased from 0.44 kg per day in 2001 to 0.5 kg per day in 2011; such a steep increase in waste generation within a decade has severed the stress on all infrastructural, natural and budgetary resources. Pune is one of the developing city, it generates total quantity of waste is about 7 tons per day. So, there is need of the proper waste collection, transportation route for prevention of environment form the hazardous waste disposal. It may help in sustainable urban environment of Indapur city. For effective management, the municipal corporation of Indapur has divided the entire region into seventeen wards which are further divided into six health units to collect the solid waste. Two alternate disposal systems are considered. In first case the entire solid waste of the city of Indapur is dumped at one dumping site. In next case there are three sites proposed at different locations in the city Indapur city