Vol. 3, Issue 5, Part L (2017)

Waste management is a crucial concern for public health. A poor waste management increases the morbidity and mortality in different ways. In many developing countries the development of waste management has not kept-up with the rapid urbanization and growing consumption and has therefore grown to a big problem.

Our study areas are Kalimpong municipality of Kalimpong district in the state of West Bengal of India. Our principle objective of this paper is to understand the impact on the economic & health condition of this area by the mismanagement of waste. The study is based on primary and secondary sources of data. Although there is a direct relation between the waste production and increase of population. So, we first show the increase of population with decades. And then unfold various types of waste, i.e. Solid Waste, Liquid Waste, and Semi-Liquid Waste. Among the various types of waste, market waste and domestic waste are predominant. Then with the field survey we tried to find out ward wise amount of domestic and commercial waste. Then our target was to search the methodology used to disposal of waste, container used to dispose it and the places where garbage unloaded. And finally impact of the mismanagement of the garbage over environment.