What are the benefits of waste management?

Question

benefits in health, benefits in environment

Answer 1

In solid waste management a primary health benefit is the control of vermin that spread disease.   By consolidating residential and some types of commercial wastes, then using appropriate disposal technology habitat is reduced, or nearly eliminated, for rodents and insects that otherwise pose a public health risk.  Another health benefit is the control of disposal methods that prevent indiscriminate burning or burial methods that could pose long term and acute health risks.

Also solid waste management allows for recycling that reduces the amount of solids for disposal.  The environmental benefits of recycling are self evident.

Industrial waste management is meant to control all waste streams, solid and liquid, that can pose a risk to public health and the environment.  Examples of where there was no industrial waste management are the various brown fields and toxic waste dumps through out  all industrialized nations. Unfortunately, even with regulations for industrial waste management, many industries spurred by profits, ignore the need to responsibly dispose of their waste.