Waste management is the collection, transport,processing, recycling or disposal of waste materials, usually ones by human activity, in an effort to reduce their effect on human health or local aesthetics oramenity. A sub focus in reduce the effect ofrecent decades has been to waste materials on theenvironment and to recover resources from them.
Waste management practices differ for developedand developing countries, for urban and rural area and for residential andindustrial produces. Management fornon-hazardous residentialand institutional waste in metropolitan areas is usually the responsibility of localgovernment authorities, while management for non-hazardous commercialand industrial waste is usually the responsibility of the generator