• Preeti Wilma Fernando

Urbanization is the process by which more and more people leave the countryside to live in cities. There is a tendency for people to move towards urban areas in search of better opportunities and better living standards.Apart from this rural and semi rural areas also slowly develop with better infrastructure, better education facilities, health care, transportation network, banking, housing, governance etc. and these areas turn into urban areas very soon.As urbanization becomes the goal of every country the issues which arise due to it also needs to be addressed. Some of the issues of urbanization are high density of population which leads to housing problems, high energy consumption, a stress on basic facilities like water, sanitation and environmental problems like pollution, inadequate waste management etc. And among these one of the major and the most urgent one is managing our waste because its implications are environmental, social, economic and political. Since the major impact is on the environment and human health it requires immediate attention. The problem with waste generation is the sheer volume of waste generated in urban areas and the inability of the civic authorities to handle them Population growth contributes to a large extent to increasing municipal solid waste in India.This huge population generates a lot of waste the reason for this escalating trend is a mix of the changing lifestyles, food habits and changes in standard of living. The collection of municipal solid waste is inefficient, its transport is inadequate, and its disposal is unscientific.

Urbanisation, issues of urbanization, waste generation problem, population growth, changing lifestyle, unscientific disposal, public private partnership

"URBAN GROWTH AND WASTE GENERATION", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.180-190, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906X59.pdf

"URBAN GROWTH AND WASTE GENERATION", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp180-190, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906X59.pdf