Municipal Solid Waste Characteristics and Management in Kolkata, India

Swapan Das and Bidyut Kr. Bhattacharyya ()
Additional contact information
Swapan Das: Bengal Engineering and Science University
Bidyut Kr. Bhattacharyya: Bengal Engineering and Science University

Chapter Chapter 147 in The 19th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, 2013, pp 1399-1409 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This paper presents a general over view of the current municipal solid waste (MSW) management in Kolkata province, India. In order to characterize the solid waste stream in the Municipality of Kolkata, a long-term study was conducted over a 56-week period between the winter of 2010 and the winter of 2011. In this study, percentage of components and specific weight of the MSW, the composting parameters (moisture content, total organic carbon, total nitrogen and pH), organic matter content, calorific value and heavy metal concentrations (Cd, Cr, Cu, Ni, Pb, Zn, Fn, Mn, Co) of the compostable waste sorted from the mixed MSW were determined and evaluated. Kolkata city generates approximately 5114.76 ton/d i.e., 1.10 kg/cap-d of MSW daily. Approximately 700 ton of MSW were collected and stored in every day. Approximately 30 % of the MSW generated is compostable wastes and yearly mean moisture content, organic matter content, C/N ratio and pH of these are 46 %, 31.81 %, 21.6 and 8.07, respectively, and approximately 15 % of the MSW consists of recyclable materials. The recommended system deals with maximizing recycling and minimizing landfilling of the MSW.

Keywords: Physical and chemical characteristics; Recommended model; Waste analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-642-38442-4_147

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/9783642384424

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-38442-4_147

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Springer Books from Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().