Inert waste

  • March 6, 2021
  • Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
  • Category: DPN Topics
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Inert waste

Subject: Environment

Context: Members of the Ridge Management Board (RMB) Friday decided to form an expert panel to study a proposal made by the South MCD for dumping “inert material” in Bhatti mines at Asola Bhatti Wildlife Sanctuary.

Concept:

  • Generally, there are three categories of landfills (place where waste):
  1. landfills for hazardous waste
  2. landfills for non-hazardous waste
  3. landfills for inert waste.

About inert waste

  • Those waste which is neither biologically nor chemically and is waste which will not decompose
  • Ex- sand, concrete, Clay, Sub soil, Chalk and Rubble
  • Usually, it doesn’t pose a threat to the environment, or the health of animals or other people and will not endanger the quality of watercourses.
  • However, large amount of this type of waste can make it an issue.
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