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@article{182021,
        author = {Rutusmita mishra and Amiya Ranjan Jagadev},
        title = {Urban stakeholders in waste management},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2025},
        volume = {12},
        number = {2},
        pages = {595-604},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=182021},
        abstract = {All communities, especially those that are most impacted, must have a critical role to play by finding ways to integrate livelihood and waste management issues in a socially just manner. If not, the waste will simply move down the path of least resistance to the economically disadvantaged. New views on waste management are taking shape based on experience with the environmental, socio-economic and institutional ramifications of Over the next two decades, growing urbanization in India will result in a massive increase of waste. By the year 2024, as workers migrate to urban areas, the urban population is expected represent 40 percent of the overall population. Growth of human population, increasing economic activities and raising standards of living generates more municipal solid waste, which has become a serious environmental problem in the recent years. Increased urbanization and rapid industrialization along with changing lifestyle have created accumulation of huge amount of waste and garbage in the urban areas and the absence of proper disposal and recycling has led to severe environmental hazards. The problem is severed in urban areas because of migration from rural areas at an alarming rate for want of employment and better quality of life. Municipal solid waste is normally disposed of in an open dump in most Indian cities and towns, which is improper method and such crude dumps pose environmental hazards causing ecological imbalances with respect to land, water, and air.},
        keywords = {Socially just, waste management, urban waste.},
        month = {July},
        }