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ANAGAL, Vaishali. Sustainable urban solid waste management - a case study of Pune. in 10th National Conference on Technological Trends, 6-7 nov 2009     A rising quality of life and high rates of resource consumption patterns have had an unintended and negative impact on the urban environment - generation of wastes far beyond the handling capacities of urban governments and agencies. Cities are now facing the problems of high volumes of waste, the costs involved, the disposal technologies and methodologies, and the impact of wastes on the local and global environment.  This paper will focus on urban environment issues in terms of its disposal methods, environmental issues rising out of unscientific disposal methods, safety issues related with residents and rag pickers, cost involved in waste disposal ...  Read the document ... 