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Speech On Solid Waste Management

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1. INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background and Motivation Solid waste management is the one of the important and major problem faced by today’s world. With the increase in commercial, residential and infrastructure development due to the population growth, it has lead to negative impact on the environment.. In developing countries like India, Solid waste management is considered as one of the most tedious environmental problems faced by municipal authorities . Rapid urbanization along with increasing industrial, economic and commercial development, have given rise to an increased generation of various types of waste. The amount of waste generation rates is related with the socio-economic development, degree of industrialization and climate. Generally, the larger the economic growth and increase in the percentage of urban population, the greater amount of solid waste is produced. For the municipal planners, n recent years, the management of solid waste continues to be one of the major issues due to rise in population levels. Without damaging the ecosystem and human population, planners are thus forced to consider alternate and available means of waste management. By visualizing the real solid waste situations and facilitating route analysis through mapping, GIS technology has proved to be a boon to such planners. In India , Pune is found to be the seventh largest metropolis and in Maharashtra, it is the second largest . Pimpri Chinchwad is a
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