Solid Waste Management System in Vavuniya

M.IndhujahPGIS

•  Solid wastes are any discarded or abandoned materials. • Solid wastes can be solid, liquid, semi-solid or containerized gaseous material.

Any discarded material

e.g Residential

wastage

Wastages that are not

liquid or gaseous

From municipal, industrial,

Agricultural

Solid Wastages

• Four sub divisions Vavuniya, Vavuniya South, VavuniyaNorth, and Vankalacheddikulam

• Total Land area is 1861Km2 and Total population is 171,511 • Government Gov.Agencies, Urban Council, GTZ/WSSP (NGO) and Community Development Unit participate to remove solid waste Management

household industrial

Agricultural and

fisheries

Solid waste Generator

Dumping site in Vavuniya….

o 20 Matric ton solid wastages are collected daily

o These stored solid wastages are 1. Collection o 2.Transporto 3. Processingo 4. Disposal and burning

o Mostly Residential solid wastages are buried or burned in Vaviniya

o In urban area residential, industrial, agricultural solid wastages, are stored by people o In a particular time these SW areHanded over to UC vehicles.

o Market wastages are collected and then the solid wastage are recycled e.g. making compost here

Solid wastages are collected form market, street cow dungs, and household

Distribute to public use Compost

Make stackSegregate

Filter by partials size

o plastic wastages recycled.

o Effect of Other wastages are disposed or incinerated

oEnvironment Effect by disposal and burning

oToxic solid wastages are contaminated with air, soil

o Odor

oCarbon dioxides emission by burning

oAnimal Carry the solid wastages and put into other place.

o Mosquito spreading

Reasons of improper solid waste Management……………………………..

o Lack of Investment to improve

o Lack of technical Management system and lack or expertise to do proper system

o community awareness is low

o Labor demand and Machinery demand

To improve……………………………………………..……….

o lack of political suport

o make awareness to public continuously

o provide Machinery to do the recycle work

o Educate to segregate solid wastage properly to the labor

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