Population growth, urbanisation, industry, modernization, and digitalization increase residential, industrial, commercial, mining, radioactive, agricultural, hospital, and electronic wastes in the 21st century. Waste management is becoming the biggest global challenge. Waste management includes collecting, transporting, sorting, destroying, processing, recycling, controlling, monitoring, and regulating garbage, sewage, and other waste. Waste management preserves the environment, prevents pollution, and protects health. Global waste management is modern. Biological reprocessing, recycling, composting, waste-to-energy, bioremediation, incineration, pyrolysis, plasma gasification, ocean/sea disposal, etc. Waste management enhances life. This ensures future peace and wellness. Global health depends on waste management. This optimises waste management. This document discusses worldwide garbage management. It also offers the best waste management approach by critically reviewing previous researchers' findings.
Authors: Binay Kumar Pandey, Vinay Kumar Nassa, Digvijay Pandey, A. Shaji George, Monika Gupta, Pankaj Dadheech, A. Shaji George
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-8117-2.ch002
Publish Year: 2023
