"Municipal Solid Waste Management practices and perceptions among residents in the North Coastal Andhra Pradesh, India"

Abstract In many developing countries, governments are facing tremendous urban growth, primarily due to migration from rural areas as well as increased business needs and wants by natural populations. The population density of cities and towns is increasing day by day. This will also increase the demand for urban goods and infrastructure services. Due to the vast urban settlements, local governments are under socio-political pressure to provide infrastructure services and cleanliness of the surrounding area, while providing the resources and cleanliness needed for these infrastructure facilities. We are pushed to the limits of the surrounding area. As a result, the quality and suitability of the city/city's basic services are reduced, ultimately affecting the people living in the city/city's slums. A common problem with municipal corporations is waste management such as landfills, waste disposal, government environmental protection measures, budget plans, human resource plans, and solid waste transport questionnaires. Human activity produces waste, and this waste disposal, storage, collection, and disposal method can pose environmental and public health risks where intense human activity is concentrated, including in urban areas, proper and safe solid waste management (SWM) is paramount to achieving healthy living conditions for the population. This fact is recognized and this research study is entitled "MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT PRACTICES AND PERCEPTIONS AMONG RESIDENTS IN NORTH COASTAL ANDHRA PRADESH, INDIA". In this study, waste practices used by certain municipal corporations, such as waste collection, waste transportation, waste generation, and reduction, waste reuse and recycling, waste composition, and waste separation. This research also revealed various aspects of management practices which follows suggestions for improving existing waste management practices and also to businesses to minimize the waste or to reutilize the resources. Keywords: Solid Waste, Disposal, Per-Capita, Waste Management Hierarchy, Environment