About 0.1 million tonnes of municipal solid waste is generated in India every day. That
is approximately 36.5 million tonnes annually. Per capita waste generation in
major Indian cities ranges from 0.2 Kg to 0.6 Kg. In Tamil Nadu per day generation of
waste 14,000 metrics per day . On this 90% of waste goes to landfills without any proper
segregation, this leads air, water & land pollution .The main reason was failure is
segregation of waste at the source of generation. According to the survery in the 65% of
waste are comes from the households, mixer of wet waste and dry waste .The best place
for waste management is households