STUDIES ON WASTE MANAGEMENT IN PESTISANI COMMUNE, GORJ COUNTY

Abstract

Population growth, raising living standards and providing in creasingly larger consumer needs undermine the balance of ecology through the waste resulted from daily life. Waste from household garbage deposited on the streets, the ones randomly disposed of at the edges of forests , mountains, orchards and pastures or more severely thrown into lakes or rivers, represent a real danger to the future of society by influencing the quality of the natural environment and changing its quality as well as its evolutionary progress. This paper presents studies on waste management in the commune of Peştişani in Gorj County.

Keywords

• waste management
• rural