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Harmful
Effects
Industrial solid wastes are disposed from coal and
mineral industries, mining industries, metal
industries, engineering industries and thermal power
stations.
Biomedical waste includes anatomical waste, syringes,
gauze, absorbents, glass. Serious health problems are
caused by such disposals. Rotting of it in front of
clinics, street corners is not uncommon due to which
rag pickers, mostly children are attacked by the
hepatitis virus or jaundice-causing virus. The dumping
of solid wastes spoils the beauty of cities and towns,
causing health problems.
The
Garbage becomes breeding grounds for disease-carrying
vectors such as flies, mosquitoes, rats and
cockroaches. Reports say that about 8,00,000 flies is
produced in one cubic meter of garbage, which carry
pathogenic organisms, causing dysentery, diarrhea,
etc. Rats, carriers of insects and bio-organisms,
cause plague.
Present
mode of management collects the garbage from the city,
transporting to a remote place, where it is
incinerated or dumped again. The easiest solution is
recycling the waste as it yields revenue, compensating
for the expenditure on its collection and
transportation. Metallic wastes, metallic scraps,
disposed metallic cans and wrecked automobiles are
reprocessed and utilized while plastic materials are
melted to mould into useful articles.
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