Solid Waste Management (Bandarawela, Badulla Hali-Ela and Meegahakiwula Townships)

Background

Waste is a valuable resource, but it is in wrong place, wrong form and wrong media. Urban Solid Waste has some value. But from 19^th centaury to today urbanize there was a rise of problems with the ways of wrong waste management (Mainly Disposal). But we were tried to use mostly Solid Waste for a valuable resource and least of disposal.

• Solid waste was one of main problem in Bandarawela, Badulla, Meegahakiwula and Hali – Ela townships

• That project were identified problems and methods for Solid Waste Management in these townships

• Proposed some solutions for that problems and systematic methods (Composting, Recycling and Land filling).

According to that research Hali – Ela and Meegahakiwula towns were not use to systematic method for Solid Waste Management. The Badulla Township was inaugurating some systematic Solid Waste Management. As such the Bandarawela Township was using systematic Solid Waste Management and maintaining it well.

Introduction

Municipal Solid Waste was a main problem in Sri Lanka. Systematic Solid Waste Management was not used properly was reason for that. Urbanize and materials were did not use properly is cause for Municipal Solid Waste, also called urban solid waste, is a waste type that includes predominantly household waste (domestic waste) with sometimes the addition of commercial wastes collected by a municipality within a given area. They are in either solid or semisolid form and generally exclude industrial hazardous wastes. The term Residual Waste relates to waste left from household sources containing materials that have not been separated out or sent for reprocessing.

There are five broad categories of Municipal solid waste:

• Biodegradable waste: food and kitchen waste, green waste, paper (can also be recycled).
• Recyclable material: paper, glass, bottles, cans, metals, certain plastics, etc.
• Inert waste: construction and demolition waste, dirt, rocks, debris.
• Composite wastes: waste clothing, Tetra Packs, waste plastics such as toys.
• Domestic hazardous waste (also called "household hazardous waste") &toxic waste: medication, e-waste, paints, chemicals, light bulbs, fluorescent tubes, spray cans, fertilizer and pesticide containers, batteries, shoe polish.

Meegahakiwula and Hali – Ela Townships were not higher urbanized areas. But Badulla and Bandarawela were comparatively higher urbanized areas. At that reason mainly Badulla and Bandarawela Townships were have the Solid Waste Problems. Accordingly Bandarawela Municipal Council was doing Solid Waste Management Scheme and Badulla Municipal Council was beginning Solid Waste Management Scheme. In that all Townships were polluted the environment when did not use that Solid Waste Management systematically. But the Bandarawela Solid Waste Management Scheme was minimized the environmental pollution as well.