Waste doesn’t exist in nature. One species’ waste is another species’ food. When a tree falls in a forest, it creates the nutrients for more trees to grow. Dung beetles feast on feces and contribute to improved soil structure. Dead matter gets processed by microbes and ultimately becomes food. It is only in human systems that we find unusable waste—and even that is a fairly recent phenomenon. Traditional cultures around the world have not had a conception of waste. They recognized that resources were finite and precious, to be used and re-used until their final place and purpose had been found or they could be returned to the earth.
Solid waste is any waste generated by every day
human activities. Solid waste may be in the form of household garbage,
leftovers of food and other wastage that include old house hold items such as
papers, plastic waste in the form of kitchen equipment or any other products
that are consumed during every day activities.