Health aspect during handling and processing
1) There is potential
risk to environment and health form improper handling of solid waste. Direct
health risks concern mainly the workers in this field, who need to be
protected, as far as possible, from contact with waste.
2) Traffic accidents
can results from toxic spilled wastes.
3) Air pollution can be
caused from the inefficient burning of wastes, either in open air or in plants
that lack effective treatment facilities for the gaseous effluents.
4) Uncontrolled
hazardous wastes form industries mixing up with municipal wastes create
potential risk to human health.
5) The most obvious
environmental damage caused by municipal solid wastes is aesthetic, the
ugliness of street litter and degradation of urban environment and beauty of city.
6) There is
specific danger of concentration of heavy metals in the food chain, a problem
that illustrates the relationship between municipal solid wastes and liquid industrial
effluents containing heavy metals discharged to drainage/ sewerage system and/
or open dumping sites of municipal solid wastes and the wastes discharged
thereby maintains a vicious cycle.
7) Municipal solid wastes
management systems involves various activities like storage,
collection, transportation, disposal etc. These activities even if properly controlled
and with proper precautionary measures adopted, may have adverse impact on land,
water and air environment, human and environmental health aesthetics and
quality of life.
8) The main risk to
health is indirect and arises from the breeding of disease vectors, primarily
files and rats.
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