Solid Waste Management in Ratnanagar Municipality -1 Chitwan District

Abstract

The thesis entitled "Solid Waste Management in Ratnanagar Municipality -1 Chitwan District" highlights the situation of solid waste management practices in study area. General objective of this study is to analyze the situation of solid waste management in Ratnanagar municipality ward no 1. Specific objectives are to examine the current solid waste management system in the study area. Both analytical and descriptive research design were used to complete of this study. Quantitative data were analyzed by using analytical research design and qualitative data were analyzed by using qualitative research design and find out the situation of solid waste management situation of the study area. Ratnanagar municipality ward no 1 is Tandi Bazzar area is the sample site of this study. Total population of the wards is 4999 (CBS Report, 2011). In main highway lines there are 201 households among them 25% households (50) were taken as sample household. From each household single individual was taken for interview by busing random sampling method. The present study was based both primary and secondary data. Secondary data were used in literature review and that were collected through library study method and books, article, journal, previous thesis are used as the main sources of secondary data. Primary data were collected from the field by using various data collection techniques such as questionnaires and observation. Solid wastes are a growing environmental problem in the study area. Increase in population along with the rapid urbanization has led to the increase in waste generation rate in the study area. Furthermore, change in living standard of the people and change in food habit have increased the rate of inorganic waste. All these have added to the problems in solid waste management which is a global issue. The major sources of solid waste in Ratnanagar municipality are municipal, domestic, commercial and agricultural, which consists of both organic and inorganic. The total waste generated in Study area has been increasing day by day. The citizen should be encouraged by the authority for the segregation of wastes at household level. They shall promote recycling or reuse of segregated materials. Waste minimization efforts should be motivated at the primary and secondary levels of waste collection. The citizen should be encouraged by the authority for the segregation of VII waste at household level and for composting of waste for stabilization of wastes. The concerned authorities should adopt suitable technology, a combination of such technologies to make use of wastes so as to minimum burden on landfill. Landfill should be restricted to non-biodegradable and other wastes that are not suitable either for recycling or for biological processing. The concerned authority has to appoint more employees in order to extend their service area. Community participation should be increased and local NGOs should be mobilized in solid waste management. Gap between staffs within the municipality should be omitted so that ongoing event inside the municipality could be easily known and should take responsibility on the people’s work inside municipality i.e. institutional strengthen should be establish.