Massive mountains of solid wastes are disposed each day by our consumer society. It is estimated that about 10 billion tones of solid wastes are produced every year in the world and are dumped into the surroundings. Solid wastes are an integral part of our life as they devour our precious landscape spoiling the aesthetics of the surroundings.

 Solid wastes are unwanted materials thrown away in solid form, arising from the normal community activity. It includes garbage i.e. kitchen and food wastes, rubbish materials like paper, rag, glass bottles, metallic cans, plastics, fibers, residues from home fuels, street sweeping, building debris, rubbles and abandoned vehicles.