Abstract:

Clean and natural air is treated as fundamental rights throughout the world, and also essential for sustainable living conditions. Presence of any type of air pollutant or odour affects the natural quality of air.  The notification by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC), Solid waste Management Rules 2016, identified odour as a public nuisance. Out of all available management options for solid waste management, landfill disposal is the most commonly used waste management worldwide. Municipal solid waste landfill sites are the one of the odour generating activity, which having frequent complaints about unpleasant odour from nearby localities that are affected. Due to such reasons, pollution CPCB issue guidelines to manage the odour from these landfill sites and address it through a scientific process. Though regulations for odour control are at initial stage in India.

Keywords: Odour, Landfill, Nuisance.

Dr. Dinesh Kumar Swarnkar

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