Kulkarni, Girish N.Chowti, Shilpa P.2021-11-072021-11-072017-06https://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810177832The present study attempted to analyze the pattern of generation, collection, storage, transportation, disposal of municipal solid waste and impact of open dumping of solid waste on human health among households residing near dumping yards in Hubballi-Dharwad Municipal Corporation (HDMC) and Bruhath Bengaluru Mahanagara Palika (BBMP). The secondary data on all aspects of solid waste was collected from selected Municipal Corporations from 2001-02 to 2016-17 and the primary data was obtained from 270 sample respondents through multistage random sampling. The municipal solid waste generated in the twin cities was 400 t/day of which, 360 t was collected (90.00 %) while, in Bengaluru it was about 4,500 t/day of which 4,000 t of waste was collected (88.89 %). Nearly 62.00 to 65.00 per cent of solid waste generated was biodegradable. Among the family type, joint families have generated more solid waste (1.66 and 1.70 kg/households/day in Hubballi-Dharwad and Bengaluru, respectively) as compared to nuclear families. Out of the total solid waste generated in Hubballi-Dharwad, about 390 t of waste was dumped in two open dumping yards while, only 10 t (2.5 %) was processed through vermicomposting whereas in Bengaluru, about 3,200 t of solid waste per day was landfilled in three sites and only 1,000 t (22.22 %) and 300 t (6.67 %) was processed using vermicompost and biomethanation process. The recycling of bio-degradable solid waste into vermicompost has high scope and was found to be financially feasible as implied by high IRR (26.12 % in Hubballi-Dharwad to 32.34 % in Bengaluru) and B:C ratio ( 1.50 and 2.04, respectively) with a recovery period of just two years. The major health problems among respondents residing near dumping yards were asthma, nose irritation and respiratory problems in adults and in case of children, frequent omitting, fever and malaria. Therefore, infrastructure needs to be built to recycle and dump the remaining waste in the sanitary landfill that are not suitable either for recycling and biological decomposition.EnglishThesis