Urban Solid Waste Management in Vasai Virar City of Maharashtra: Practices and Challenges

Solid waste management is becoming a major challenge for the cities in developing countries. The urban areas are characterised by rapid economic growth and population explosion. The unplanned urban growth and lack of strict implementation of laws in the urban areas of the developing world, will increase quantity of solid waste. The informal sector in cities plays an important role in the management of urban solid waste. The present study examines the present status of municipal solid waste management system in city. The study reveals that, it is necessary to realize a campaign for the segregation of the waste at source. The infrastructure of the municipal corporation needs to be improved and finally the scavengers need to be more deeply involved in the policies associated with the urban solid waste management system adopted in the city