Solid Waste Management Practice: A Case Study of Ilam Municipality-7 Ilam, Nepal
| dc.contributor.author | Adhikari, Bandana | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-12-05T05:54:40Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-12-05T05:54:40Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2023 | |
| dc.description.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. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://elibrary.tucl.edu.np/handle/20.500.14540/20828 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Department of Rural Development | en_US |
| dc.subject | Solid waste | en_US |
| dc.subject | Environmental problem | en_US |
| dc.title | Solid Waste Management Practice: A Case Study of Ilam Municipality-7 Ilam, Nepal | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
| local.academic.level | Masters | en_US |
| local.institute.title | Mahendra Ratna Multiple Campus, Ilam | en_US |