Management is the act or process of deciding how to use something.Waste Management is relatively important in day to day life.Waste Management is all the activities and action required to manage waste from its inception to it's final disposal.In India the last three years have seen hazardous waste import increased by 48%.In 2009 6.4 million tones of hazardous waste came from the west to India and 5.9 million tones was produced domestically.Much of this waste was metal,electronics and plastics.They may have contaminated with lead,mercury and other toxins which can cause serious illness and environmental damage.The government is supposed to monitor the import of hazardous waste which enters India through a gap in the law that allows the import of waste for recycling.Most of the parts in India do not have radiation scanning technology.
Waste comes to distribution centers like West Delhi's Mundka and Mumbai's Dharavi before being taken away by different agents to specialty processing markets like Seelampur in Delhi.Agents sell the components to others who sell them to factories.The finished recycled products much cheaper than their branded counterparts are sold in the wholesale markets.India has a capacity to handle just 30% of it's domestic waste.India's capacity to treat hazardous waste is not growing at the same pace as waste generations.Although recycling industries are temporarily profitable,the damage to the environment is often permanent.Near Moradabad,the waters of the once-fertile Ramganga river have turned black with plastic ash.With no government control and little regard for the environment,the private waste-processing industry poses a threat to public safety in India.
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