Brochure
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MANAGEMENT
RCRA states that "solid waste" means any garbage or refuse, sludge from a wastewater treatment plant, water supply
treatment plant, or air pollution control facility and other discarded material, resulting from industrial, commercial,
mining, and agricultural operations, and from community activities. Solid waste can be classified into different types
depending on their source:
a) Household waste is generally classified as municipal waste,
b) Industrial waste as hazardous waste
c) Biomedical waste or hospital waste as infectious waste
MUNICIPAL WASTE
This garbage is generated mainly from residential and commercial complexes. With rising urbanization and change in
lifestyle and food habits, the amount of municipal solid waste has been increasing rapidly and its composition changing.
BIOMEDICAL WASTE
It may include wastes like sharps, soiled waste, disposables, anatomical waste, cultures, discarded medicines, chemical
wastes, etc. These are in the form of disposable syringes, swabs, bandages, body fluids, human excreta, etc. This waste is
highly infectious and can be a serious threat to human health if not managed in a scientific and discriminate manner.
How Waste is managed in Belize?
Some of the common practices in Belize are: incineration/burning, burial at landfill sites and recycling. The
system we have now in Belize is this; solid waste is collected in our Towns, then transported to the Transfer
Stations and finally disposed at the Regional Sanitary Landfill located at mile 24 of George Price Highway,
where waste is stored. The wastes’ disposal chain involves processes such as collection, transportation,
dumping and recycling.
INCINERATION
Incineration is a method of treating waste which involves the combustion of the organic substances found
in waste materials.
LANDFILLING
A landfill site, also known as a tip, dump, rubbish dump, garbage dump, or dumping ground, is a site for the disposal of
waste materials. Landfill is the oldest and most common form of waste disposal, although the systematic burial of the
waste with daily, intermediate and final covers only began in the 1940s.
RECYCLING
Recycling is the process of collecting and processing materials that would otherwise be thrown away as
trash and turning them into new products. Recycling can benefit your community and the environment.