Authors : Komal R. Rathod and Kavita S. Raipurkar
Page Nos : 127-130
Description :
At the global level India is one of the top countries which produces large amount of solid waste. The composition of solid waste varies with living standard and economic status of the nation. In India, upsurge of urbanization and industrialization have resulted into huge amount of solid waste generation and impacted air, water and soil quality. Municipal solid waste management is being handled by Municipal Corporation which comes under a third priority after water supply and sanitation. In many countries waste disposal is performed unscientifically in which wastes thrown on open sites. Unscientific waste disposal contribute to different environmental problems such as land pollution, air pollution, groundwater pollution, and bad odor production. Since the waste is disposed directly on surface soil, number of contaminants including toxic heavy metals readily penetrate and contaminate the soil which ultimately get leached into ground water and pollute it. Thus the focus of this review is to evaluate waste disposal effects on soil quality. Through the rigorous literature survey of the scholars at national and international level it has been found that number of contaminants particularly toxic heavy metals get originated in soil from municipal waste disposal and the values were found to be higher in comparison to standards given for soil degrading soil quality.
