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Plastic Waste Characterization in Municipal Solid Waste: A Case Study of Nagar Palika Chitrakoot (Uttar Pradesh)

Soil Advances 2025
Yoshita Ray

Summary

This study reviews plastic waste composition and management practices in Chitrakoot, India, documenting the widespread use of plastics in daily life and the limited available methodologies—including recycling, landfill, incineration, gasification, and hydrogenation—for handling the growing volume of plastic waste.

Study Type Environmental

Plastics are used in a greater number of applications in worldwide and it becomes essential part of our daily life. In Indian cities and villages people use the plastics in buying vegetable as a carry bag, drinking water bottle, use of plastic furniture in home, plastics objects use in kitchen, plastic drums in packing and storage of the different chemicals for industrial use, use plastic utensils in home and many more uses. After usage of plastics, it will become part of waste garbage and create pollution due to presence of toxic chemicals and it will be spread diseases and give birth to uncontrolled issues in social society. In current scenario consumption of plastic waste increasing day by day and it is very difficult to manage the plastic waste. There are limited methodologies available for reutilization of plastic waste again. Such examples are recycling, landfill, incineration, gasification and hydrogenation. In this paper we will review the existing methodologies of utilization of plastic waste in current scenario.

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