International Journal of Advanced Engineering Research and Science (IJAERS) [Vol-5, Issue-5, May- 2018] https://dx.doi.org/10.22161/ijaers.5.5.49 ISSN: 2349-6495(P) | 2456-1908(O) www.ijaers.com Page | 361 Importance of Municipal Solid Waste Management Dr. S K Maity Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology, West Bengal, India Abstract—Solid waste management is one among the fundamental and essential services provided by municipal authorities in the developed as well as developing countries to keep urban areas clean. In certain regions of our country, the free disposal facilities have reached their own capacity and even local governments are confronted with difficult decisions. Solid waste management is an integral element of modern society. There are many ways in which solid waste can be treated, and thanks to modernized practices and technological advancement, these methods are very safe and practical. Keywords—Solid Waste Management, Intelligent technique. I. INTRODUCTION Solid waste management is one among the fundamental and essential services provided by municipal authorities in the country to keep urban centers clean. Solid waste management has always been a serious problem for cities throughout the world. It is not different in developing countries like India. In certain regions of our country, the free disposal facilities have reached their own capacity and even local governments are confronted with difficult decisions. Modern civilization has brought a lot of luxuries and conveniences to our lives. However, with all of the amenities that modern life brings us, they also cause us to contribute to producing a large quantity of trash that needs to be taken care of. Fortunately, there’s the field of solid waste management, and it is with that Solid Waste Management that modern lives are enjoyable without the disturbance or refuse. Solid waste management is an integral element of modern society. Even if we don’t get to see what goes on at the facilities and plants that process and dispose of garbage, it still contributes to the well-being of our lives. There are many ways in which solid waste can be treated, and thanks to modernized practices and technological advancement, these methods are very safe and practical. For example, in our previous research works, we have applied several intelligent techniques like graph theory, ant colony optimization, shortest path algorithm, image processing and other intelligent techniques [1,2,3,4,5,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16]. In some cases the existing garbage collection pathways were considered and it was shown that if such intelligent techniques are applied then the cost involved in collecting the garbage will be significantly decreased. Besides that we have also applied image processing technique for reorientation of garbage collection points in several municipal areas of West Bengal. II. MATERIALS & METHODS In our present study we mainly confine our views on importance of solid waste management. It is because this is now burning issues and most of the countries both developed and developing countries of the world concentrate on that. We have already studied solid waste management issue on several municipal areas of West Bengal, India of which some municipal areas belong to oldest city of India and some areas belong to most advanced i.e. satellite city of India. After that we have noticed the following:  The poor quality of the services provided in terms of solid waste collection and disposal is the issues of concern.  To provide a waste management service this can be acceptable on existing financial constraints.  There is lack of action plan for proposingand implementing an efficient Management Information System (MIS) & Geographical Information System (GIS)  The provision of planning and management such that there are possibilities of improvement in financial and institutional support. Due to the financial constrains it was suggested to incorporate those options which can promote the improvement in the system without a major capital investment. So it is proposed to create the MIS and GIS information. According to Ogra, A, 2003 [6], “Municipal bodies are unable to prove a 100% efficient system and even are not able to reach the efficiency of 60%”. This is not because the municipality is not doing their work properly or due to work negligence, but it is due to the old conventional working methods which need to be upgraded with the advanced system like GIS and a better management system. The data should be managed in an integrated way to reduce the complexity of different issues related to the function of the work involved in the waste management system. We have noticed that the solid waste