Solid Waste Management Practice: A Case Study of Ilam Municipality-7 Ilam, Nepal
Date
2023
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Department of Rural Development
Abstract
The thesis entitled "Solid Waste Management Practice in Ilam Municipality -7 Ilam
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
Ilam municipality ward no 7. Ilam municipality ward no 7, main core area is the sample
site of this study. Total population of the wards is 5744 (ward profile, 2079). In the city
area there are 202 households among them 25% households (50) were taken as sample
household. From each household single individual was taken for interview by busing
Simple Random sampling method. The present study was based both primary and
secondary data.
Solid wastes are a growing environmental problem in the study area. Increase in
population along with the rapid upland settlement 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 and readymade packing system 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 Ilam 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 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 as well as tole bikash sastha 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 peopleās work inside municipality i.e., institutional strengthen
should be equipped and established.
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Solid waste, Environmental problem