Causes of solid waste pollution are pollutants from households, industrial units, manufacturing units, commercial establishments, landfills, hospitals and medical clinics. Trash collected from households often takes the form of plastic bags and organic waste. Solid feces flowing away from homes and into sewers pollute underground water. Commercial establishments also pile up a lot of such waste matter. Industrial units taking part in manufacturing produce toxic solid waste, such as slag, through the industrial procedure of obtaining metals from their ores.

Hospitals and clinics also produce waste in the form of disposable syringes, used test tubes, plastic bags used for collecting blood, cotton swabs and used bandages. Such solid waste needs careful handling and disposal. The soil becomes polluted with dangerous medical waste when such matter is disposed of directly into landfills.

Solid waste is usually dumped in landfills. Landfills are large pits when you look at the ground that act as garbage disposal places. The biodegradable matter in landfills becomes a part of the soil gradually. The toxic non-biodegradable and non-compostable matter poses a health hazard as it doesn’t decompose but mixes with the soil while the underground water.

Getting rid of waste is necessary for health and safety reasons but a lot of businesses do not have a proper waste disposal procedure, therefore causing a lot of unnecessary waste which is harmful to the environment. Many materials that are thrown away can be recycled or repurposed. The waste treatment market is changing. 

Regional waste prevention and management plans have modernized waste management by giving the regions and communes a central role. 

“Increasingly, the use of technological solutions in waste management will allow us to implement the BIG data to improve the efficiency of recycling processes, such as implementing measures for the conservation of the environment”.

More about used garbage trucks 

Dating back to the US Civil War era, the oldest garbage trucks were simple carts, drawn through the streets either by the oxen’s or the horses. But nowadays, the garbage trucks have been motorized and the trucks have gotten bigger and the containers grown stronger to facilitate greater compaction. You can find many garbage trucks for sale online. These trucks help us in waste management and dumping of wastes in proper place and then recycling it. You can start your business in this field and help the country to dispose the garbage with the help of garbage trucks. Just go online and search for garbage trucks for sale and you will find many of them.

What do they do?

Garbage is typically collected in a truck where it is collected and usually compacted in the truck.  The waste collector takes the equipments from the depot and the driver and the waste collector goes on collecting the waste according to their pre defined route. Later on, they empty the truck at the land fill.

Causes of wastes

The main sources for solid wastes are domestic, commercial, industrial, municipal, and agricultural wastes. Every single individual on this planet is responsible for the generation of solid Waste. Solid Waste include plastic , Medical trash, Industry Waste, Trash that comes from the House holds. These are the main Solid Waste producers. If don’t manage these waste in a very proper manner this leads to landfill generation.

The composition of a city waste is as follows:

– Paper, wood, cardboard 53 percent

– Garbage 22 percent

– Ceramics, glass, crockery 10 percent

– Metals 8 percent

– Rubber, plastics, discarded textiles 7 percent

The increase in the quantity of solid waste is due to overpopulation, affluence, and technological advancement.