Effect of solid waste on Human Health.
Every country creates solid waste but a few countries don’t learn to manage solid waste management. For example, in some developed countries like the United States, Sweden tackling of solid waste done effectively. However, countries like India confront the problem of handling waste. Though, government provide a cost-free facility for collecting waste from homes. However, countries like Australia charge residents for collecting their waste but an astonishing point of concern is that people give money to the government for waste collection.
Indians are very hard working people. But their concern for waste is not apposite. Every one when passing by dump yard put a handkerchief on the mouth.
But when have chances at home to save themselves from the musty smell by doing waste segregation is not acceptable.
It is similar to everyone want to make money but not want to work. It can transmute through behaviour changes only. A fear is a very strong connection in each individual for changing their behaviour. There are numerous stories which bring efficacious social changes using behaviour sciences. Take an instance, A railway station of Mumbai which decreased death rate by hanging posters of person who accidentally come in front of a train.
Similarly, Indian doesn’t realise the worth of waste management until they perceive the damage through the waste management to the environment. Recently, studies say that people live near to dump yard faces health issues such as eye irritation, malaria, dengue. Also, united nations environment programs claim that solid waste management effects on childbirth weight. “Papers dealing with the health effects of incinerators active in the years 1969–1996 consistently report a detectable risk of some cancers in the populations living nearby, through high quality studies, as reported in different reviews. Quantitative estimates of excess risks of specific cancers in populations living near solid waste incinerator plants were provided (Elliott et al., 1996) for all cancers, stomach, colon, liver, and lung cancer.”[http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/317226/Waste-human-health-Evidence-needs-mtg-report.pdf?ua=1]
if these problems appear to common people they might concern more about management of proper solid waste management and utilise government free service with deference.
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