EDUCATION (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Refuse shall mean all putrescible and non-putrescible solid wastes (except body wastes-excreta) including ashes and industrial wastes.

Detailed explanation-2: -Refuse includes garbage and rubbish. Garbage is mostly decomposable food waste or yard waste that is highly putrescible, while rubbish is mostly dry material such as glass, paper, cloth, or wood that does not readily decompose.

Detailed explanation-3: -Refuse are the organic and inorganic waste materials such as product packaging, grass clippings, furniture, clothing, bottles, kitchen refuse, paper, appliances, paint cans, batteries, etc. Hume excreta is, generally, not the part of solid waste, it is the part of wastewater or Sewage system.

Detailed explanation-4: -Organic refuse include dry animal & vegetable refuse such as green waste, food waste, food-soiled paper, non-hazardous wood waste, green waste, and landscape and pruning waste. Inorganic refuse is a type of waste that does not contain organic compounds.

Detailed explanation-5: -For the purposes of this review these sources are defined as giving rise to four major categories of waste: municipal solid waste, industrial waste, agricultural waste and hazardous waste.