Eco. Env. & Cons. 29 (November Suppl. Issue) : 2023; pp. (S508-S513) Copyright@ EM International ISSN 0971–765X ( 1 Student, 2* Associate Professor) Quantification of Solid Waste and Appraisal of Community Attitude towards Management of solid Waste in Jant Village of Haryana, India Thaothuingam Malangmei 1 and Koijam K.K. Mani Bhushan Singh 2 1 Central University of Haryana Mahendragarh, India 2* Dhanamanjuri University, Manipur, India (Received 19 June, 2023; Accepted 13 August, 2023) ABSTRACT The study is done to investigate the attitude of the people and to inculcate awareness toward household solid waste. With the boom in the growth of population coupled with urbanization, the solid waste is predicted to increase annually. Here, the Direct sampling method is used and it involves the household survey and the quantification and the composition of the solid waste. Manual hand sorting is applied in the characterization process. The results indicate people having positive attitude towards the solid waste and the solid waste generated in the Jant village is comparatively very less. Most people have little knowledge on solid waste management, 80.67% of the household throw their waste in an open space or on the street. There is meagre information and little work on solid waste for the small villages in India. People participation is considered vital if the solid waste management is to be carried out efficiently in any place. The data thus generated in the study would help the environmental planners in their decision making on managing the solid waste and controlling the environmental pollution for the Jant village. Key words: Household, Quantification, Investigation, Haryana, Solid waste Introduction As per the World Bank report of 2016, 2.01 billion tonnes of solid waste are generated by the world’s cities that amount to 0.74 kg/capita/day. With the rapid growth of population couple with urbaniza- tion, the solid waste is predicted to increase annu- ally by 70% from 2016 levels to 3.40 billion tonnes in 2050. In under developed and developing countries, 90 % of the waste is often disposed in the unregu- lated dumps or openly burnt. Comparing with the developed nations, residents from developing coun- tries are more severely impacted by the unsustain- able management of solid waste (Senzige et al., 2014). These outcomes create serious health, safety, and environmental consequences. Improper man- agement of solid waste acts as a breeding ground for disease vectors. And with the economic develop- ment unceasingly increased, the needs for efficient management of Solid Wastes are becoming crucial. The economic growth in turn drives towards in- creased consumption of resources, especially across the emerging nations especially, India and China. In the light of this scenario, it is vital to study and elu- cidate the factorsin fluencing waste generation and analyse the results bringing about best solution and practices. Looking at the present scenario and the outlook, experts predict and estimates the utmost challenges, to be faced by the emerging economic countries. Country like India, tryto combat the chal- DOI No.: http://doi.org/10.53550/EEC.2023.v29i06s.080