Abstract

Increasing municipal solid waste (MSW) of different forms on account of rise in population has demonstrated the need of studying the seasonal characterization of municipal solid waste in residential area of Jammu city, India. This work analyses the characteristics of MSW for three diverse periods of a year (winter, spring and summer) collected directly from the families at three diverse economic levels of selected residential area. Weighing machine was used to weight the waste material separated in tarpaulin sheet. For all the three socioeconomic levels, the average measure of waste produced was 2.96 kg/capita/day. The lowest income groups generated about 2.36 to 2.71 kg/capita/day of waste while the highest income groups generated about 2.4 to 3.7 kg/capita/day of waste. We found that summer season has the highest of waste generation whereas winter has the lowest. The characterization values of the weighed municipal solid waste shows organic fraction of 82.73% followed by the plastic waste with 6.78% and then the combination of paper and cardboard with 6.78%. Other wastes viz metals, glass etc. were found to be 2.51 % in total.

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Title
Seasonal characterization of municipal solid waste in the city of Jammu, India
Author
Alam, Pervez 1 ; Mazhar, Mohd Aamir 2 ; Afzal Husain Khan 3 ; Khan, Nadeem A 2 ; Alaa El Din Mahmoud 4 

 Department of Civil Engineering, BGSB University J & K, India 
 Department of Chemistry, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India 
 Civil Engineering Department, Jazan University, 114 Jazan, Saudi Arabia. 
 Environmental Sciences Department, Faculty of Science, Alexandria University, 21511, Alexandria, Egypt. 
Publication year
2021
Publication date
Feb 2021
Publisher
IOP Publishing
ISSN
17578981
e-ISSN
1757899X
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2513046768
Copyright
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