Environmental impacts
1. Leachates from refuge dumps percolates into the soil and contaminate underground
water.
2. Scavengers and stray animals invade the roadside garbage and litter the waste over
large area causing much aesthetic damage to the atmosphere [7].
3. Waste products when burnt like plastic and rubber pollute the atmosphere with noxious
fumes.
4. Organic solid wastes emits obnoxious odor on their decomposition and make the
environment polluted.
Health hazards
1. Vectors like rats and insects invade refuse dumps and spread various diseases.
2. During handling and transfer of hospital and clinic wastes, disease transmission may
take place.
3. Water and food contamination through flies causes various diseases in humans as
dysentery, diarrhoea and amoebic dysentery.
4. Rats dwelling with infectious solid wastes may spread diseases like plague,
salmonellosis, trichinosis, endemic typhus etc.
5. Water supply, if gets contaminated with pathogens present in solid wastes, may result
in cholera, jaundice, hepatitis, gastro enteric diseases etc.
6. Choking of drains and gully pits by the solid wastes results in water logging which
facilitates breeding of mosquitoes and results in the spread of diseases like malaria and
plague.
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