Development of Waste Management Culture

Abstract

Development of any culture is a time consuming exercise. However, the civilized world has been developing different kinds of cultures depending upon the necessity of the time prevailing. The development of waste management/minization culture is the need of the day and the techniques opted are obviously of pollution prevention/control. Pollution generated by anthropogenic wastes has grown to horrifying levels. Though the subject is vast and general, the scope of the paper has been confined to the industrial sector only. Zones of improvements are varied and numerous like energy, raw materials, process conditions, waste genera-tion etc. Inculcation of waste minimization culture amon-gst workers and managers has been discussed. Since devel-opment of a relatively new culture is a prolonged process, it has to be introduced in the grass root level from the very beginning. However, it is never too late to introduce such waste management/minization techniques in to the present industries.