Contemporary Aspects of Solid Waste Management

Abstract

The main objective of the solid waste management is to protect the public health and safety of the community by providing quality municipal solid waste services and environmental programs that are safe, efficient, cost effective and environmentally responsible. A comprehensive strategy framework is needed at the national and provincial level to connect public health, environmental concerns, decentralization, obligatory legal limitations and economic interests. This framework should motivate municipal authorities to deliver better services, recover more costs from users, and cooperate with neighboring municipalities. Demands to solid waste management system are often highly opposed. Furthermore, acting mechanisms of internal and external influential factors to the system are highly complex. This papers deals with contemporary aspects of solid waste management in correlation to society demands and influential factors. The basis hypotheses, in this paper, are analysis of the current solid waste management systems. Through the analysis of current solid waste management systems the influential factors are defined. The acting mechanisms of each influential factor are considered. Identification of demands and its ranking was done. The objective state of solid waste management systems is determined. Upon the analysis of the influential factors and its acting mechanisms the proposals for the efficient solid waste management systems optimization was given.