International Journal of Civil, Structural, Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering Research and Development (IJCSEIERD) ISSN 2249-6866 Vol. 3, Issue 2, Jun 2013, 99-108 © TJPRC Pvt. Ltd. AUTOMATIC PLASTIC SEPARATING TECHNOLOGY FOR SOLID WASTE DISPOSAL JOICE JOHNY 1 , ABIN JOY 2 , DELLA SUNNY 3 , BASIL M JOSEPH 4 & SHAJI M JAMAL 5 1,2,3,4 Student, Department of Civil, Ilahia College of Engineering & Tech, Muvattupuzha, Kerala, India 5 Assistant Professor, Department of Civil, Ilahia College of Engineering & Tech, Muvattupuzha, Kerala, India ABSTRACT Solid waste management has become one of the main issues in both urban and rural areas all over the world. With the progress of civilization, the waste generated become more complicated in nature. Now-a-days the wastes are dumped as landfill, in some cases some chemicals are added to it to decompose the waste and the major problem in solid waste disposal is plastic separation and they are separated manually and recycled. At present there is not a proper scientific waste treatment plant as well as suitable land for the disposal of wastes. So it is necessary to have a suitable solid waste treatment plant. Installing a good solid waste management system will aid in achieving good environmental sanitation around urban habitat. This paper is a proposal for a proper technology for the municipal solid waste management. The new technology adopted is Automatic Plastic Separating Technology (APST). The new technology solves all the above problems. KEYWORDS: Solid Waste, Waste Disposal, Solid Waste Management, Municipal Solid Waste INTRODUCTION Solid waste management has become one of the main issues in both urban and rural areas all over the world. Still the social and cultural response and the techno-economic considerations of the issue have not received the required importance in appropriate planning and application of waste management systems in our country. As the civilian people are unaware of the dangers of this situation and participation, silly-minded approach of the local/state/central governments have resulted in a dangerous and pathetic situation that most of the beautiful terrains are slowly turning into litter zones. Thus sincere efforts to handle an upcoming disaster are to be coordinated for reducing waste generation, and also its effective disposal, involving primary collection, segregation, recycling to the extent possible and treatment through appropriate technology to reduce their harmful effects to a reasonably acceptable level. Installing a good solid waste management system will aid in achieving good environmental sanitation around urban habitat. There has been development of new technologies for improving the waste management system SOLID WASTE Solid waste substances are those materials which become useless after a short period of their use such as news papers, different types of cans, bottles, broken glass wares, plastic containers, polythene bags, ashes, domestic garbage etc. These discarded solid substance after their uses are variously called as refuse, garbage, rubbish solid waste etc. These solid wastes require proper and ample space for their dumping and disposal. With the progress of civilization, the waste produced becomes more complex in nature. At the end of the 19 th century the industrial revolution led the population to a world of consumers. Not only did the air get more polluted but also the earth becomes more polluted with the generation of non-biodegradable solid waste. The growth of population and urbanization is also highly responsible for the large increase in quantity of solid waste.