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The crisis of waste management has created an increase in public awareness. The awareness of the impact of solid waste on the environment is very limited. Although there are several technologies practiced in solid waste management, many of them create other types of pollution. This chapter has summarized the current technologies available in solid waste management and the potential uses of a newer method called bioremediation. With increasing research, this method can provide a cost-effective and environmentally friendly solution to the waste management crisis if it is used in conjunction with current methods. Bioremediation is also an important method of land and water reclamation. Sites previously thought to be unpurifiable have the potential for reuse once they are treated with microbes. Bioremediation is an effective method of decontamination without leaving any toxic residues. Microbes used in this process die off as the pollutant is degraded and return to their normal population size. The continuous monitoring is necessary to ensure that all traces of the contaminant have been eradicated from the bioremediated site. The recycling has been proven to be the most effective method of waste reduction and the least damaging to the environment of the available techniques. Landfilling and incineration are the most damaging and have not created a solution to the waste management crisis. This chapter has also attempted to explain waste management planning and the necessity of each method in such a plan. One method alone will not solve our solid waste disposal problems. The key to the management plan is waste reduction, recycling, and incineration. New methods such as bioremediation are also important in the waste management plan since they will provide future alternatives to landfilling and incineration. As new treatments are proposed, tested, and proved reliable, they can be integrated with the overall management scheme.
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Shrivastava, N.G. (2022). Bioremediation of Solid Waste Management. In: Baskar, C., Ramakrishna, S., Baskar, S., Sharma, R., Chinnappan, A., Sehrawat, R. (eds) Handbook of Solid Waste Management. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-4230-2_48
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