Waste Management Towards Achieving Environmental Sustainability: Some Perspectives

The chapter aims to provide an in-depth understanding of waste management system and also highlights the importance of waste management along with waste management challenges in the wake of environmental degradation and depletion of natural resources. The chapter, in summary, contains a thorough analysis of waste management techniques and lists the numerous kinds of waste that are produced by homes, businesses, hospitals, and construction sites, among other sources. Further, the chapter emphasizes the importance of reducing waste generation as the first step in managing waste and identifies several opportunities for waste management, including recycling, reusing, and reducing waste. The chapter stresses the need for a comprehensive waste management policy that integrates all waste management processes, from collection, transportation, treatment to disposal and also highlights the need for public awareness and/or education efforts to raise the consciousness of the significance of waste management and ways to reduce waste generation. Finally, the chapter provides a critical review of the challenges posed during waste management and the opportunities for improvement. In summary, calls for joint efforts among public, business, and governmental sectors to implement sustainable waste management techniques that are incorporated into the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).