An Overview of Hazardous Waste Management in India Murali U.1, Vijayakumar C.2, Ramesh M.2, Baskaran M.2 1PG Students, Industrial Safety Engineering, K.S. Rangasamy College of Technology/Anna University, Tiruchengode, India 2Professor, Department of Mechatronics Engineering, K.S. Rangasamy College of Technology/Anna University, Tiruchengode, India Online published on 31 October, 2017. Abstract In this paper, discussed the management of solid waste and its functional elements, which include storage, collection, transport, waste disposal, processing, recycling, biological conversion of waste and incineration with energy recovery in the context of non-hazardous wastes. In see of the substantial threat-present and potential-hazardous wastes affect to human health, or living organisms in common, they must to be handled, treated and managed differently, and this issue is discussed in the paper. In this paper, the first identify and classify hazardous wastes, and then discuss their functional elements namely generation, storage and collection, transfer and transport, processing and disposal. Consequently, discuss the several physical, chemical, thermal and biological treatments to reduce the impact of hazardous wastes on public health and the environment. It also explanation some of the methods for hazardous waste reduction and pollution prevention and the main hazardous waste management follows in India. Top Keywords Solid waste, storage, transport, recycling, biological, treatment, disposal. Top |