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Foreword
By-and-large,
it has been an age-old practice to handle municipal solid waste by manual means.
At different stages of waste handling such as waste collection, street sweeping,
transfer of waste from bins to transport vehicles/carts and at disposal sites,
the waste is handled manually. Ragpickers and people living around landfill sites
are also exposed to hazards. In order to consider routine health check-up programme
and phase out manual handling of waste, Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB)
instituted studies on impact of municipal solid waste handling on conservancy
staff, ragpickers and on habitation around landfill sites at Kolkata and Chennai.
The study at Kolkata and study at Chennai was carried out by Shri Ramachandra
Medical College and Research Institute,Chennai. We are thankful to these Institutes
for completing the study.
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