SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN THE FIELD OF ENERGY BY PROCESSING RECURRING WASTES IN DIFFERENT WAYS

Copyright © 2014 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. ABSTRACT: With the alarming rate of enormous increase in the quantum and diversity of waste materials generated by myriad human activities, and their potentially harmful effects on the general environment and public health, there arises an invariable need of increasing awareness about an urgent need to adopt scientific methods for safe disposal of wastes. While there is an obvious need to minimize the generation of wastes and to reuse and recycle them, the technologies for recovery of energy from wastes can play a vital role in mitigating the problems. Besides, the education on how they can use it for generating a renewable and sustainable source of energy and the ways to generate would become utmost important and mandatory. Besides recovery of substantial energy, these technologies can lead to a substantial reduction in the overall waste quantities requiring final disposal, which can be better managed for safe disposal in a controlled manner while meeting the pollution control standards. So, this direction of research would yield multiple benefits and the world can even end up with a very minimum expenditure on new energy resources. So this paper mainly focuses on the types of wastes that can be processed to energy, and the ways in which it can be processed to energy, which is the ultimate requirement of the world today