Solid Waste and Livelihood

Across the world, millions of people rely on solid wasteSolid waste for livelihoodLivelihood by collecting, transporting, recovery, research, enforcement, and sale of valuable materials from the wasteWaste. Employment in solid waste managementSolid Waste Management as well as recycling will continue to rise as recycling rates increase. Globally, only 4 million are in formal employment out of the 19–24 million workers currently in the sector. About 861,000 jobs were directly associated to municipal solid wasteMunicipal solid waste(MSW) as well as Construction and DemolitionConstruction/Demolition (C&D) (C&D) waste managementWaste management in the USA in 2008 and likely to create nearly 368,000 additional jobs are created by 2030. Waste pickingWaste picking provides prospects to people who have few or no marketable skills besides education as well as no alternative sources of income. In addition to the existing traditional Solid Waste ManagementSolid Waste Management (SWM) business an array of start-ups has ventured into arena of SWM business. Waste is one of major green job recognized across the world. With depleting resource from nature has made people to turn to urban miningMining that has taken forefront to supply need of world. With adoption of circular economyCircular Economy, the jobs in the waste sector will see boost and will provide livelihoodLivelihood to millions across the world. Rise in ecopreneurship in wasteWaste sector with vital elements, namely eco-innovation, eco-commitment, eco-culture, as well as eco-enterprises is likely to add to job in waste sector. This chapter attempts to present is an up-to-date review of the role of the livelihoodLivelihood in SWM by gathering research in this area.