Disaster Waste Mitigation

Abstract

Emergencies and disasters can strike anywhere on the planet, causing chaos on human health, lives, and the infrastructure that supports them. Disaster waste can hamper rescue operations and cause severe financial, ecological, and health consequences. Threat reduction, readiness, emergency response, relief, and recovery, as well as operations to restore infrastructure and repair shattered lives and livelihoods, are all part of disaster management.Waste management during and after a disaster has also become a critical concern. Depending upon the type of calamity, its intensity, location, and nation, different approaches are taken to deal with the waste that is linked with it. Additionally, there are serious issues that need to be addressed regarding the ineffective enforcement of current laws and regulations, low standards of local competence and capacity, a lack of funding, and a lack of coordination and communication. Disaster debris exists in a range of shapes, sizes, and degrees of danger.As, 2016 Kumamoto earthquakes in Japan caused around 2.89 million tons of debris.The current state of the art in disaster debris prediction consists mostly of models given by federal agencies in the United States, with many site-specific contributions from the corporate, Vital assets are disrupted in a variety of ways, including effects on public health, delays in the rebuilding process, contributions to local industries like tourism, a reduction in available landfill space.Purpose of this paper is to study mitigation process of waste generated as the consequences of various disaster events along with current practices on quantification of generated waste through such disaster events.