Strategies toward sustainable management of organic waste

As the population is growing, the amount of waste is also increasing due to increased human activities. This waste accumulation is harmful to the environment. Therefore there is a requirement to implement waste management practices strictly. This generated waste has many harmful effects on the environment such as causing environmental pollution, greenhouse gas emission, and damage to the land and also affect adversely the human health. The problem arises when this waste is discarded in a nonscientific way which can lead to a loss in economical benefit of waste. Many scientific ways such as prevention, minimization of waste, reuse, recycling, biological treatment, incineration, and landfill for waste disposal are being reported to provide various environmental benefits which help in the reduction of greenhouse gas emission, acts as a substitute for chemical fertilizer, and conserve land. Sustainable waste management strategies are highly desirable for viable economic and environmental waste management. Agriculturally this waste can save landfill and transportation costs, also the cost of chemical fertilizers’ production. This chapter summarizes practices that are needed to be implemented for the scientific disposal of waste and which also provide economical and environmental benefits.