Solid waste management is a polite term for garbage management. Solid waste can be disposable to land or oceans. Solid waste can also be recovered and reprocessed, a procedure popularly known as recycling. Before disposal or recovery, however the waste must be collected. All these i.e., collection, disposal and / or recovery form a part of the solid waste management system.
In India also, on average, over a million tones of solid waste is generated in class-1 cities, where as in class 2 about 0.25 million tons per year.