Industrial Hazardous Waste Management: Avenues for Collaborations

Abstract

As nations industrialized people benefited greatly from the advances in technology but with negative effects of pollution and production of hazardous waste. On the other hand, with growing demand for raw materials for industrial production the non-renewable resources are declining gradually. Disposing of any kind of waste including industrial hazardous wastes is a loss of resource as disposed wastes contain a lot of reusable substance of high value as one industry's hazardous waste could be resource to another industry. This paper aims to present a framework to manage industrial hazardous waste through a collaborative strategy in Sri Tanka. The study was conducted through survey approach and semi structured interviews were carried out to elicit relevant opinions from industry professionals and waste management experts. Content analysis was used to arrive findings of the research. Findings revealed that few collaborative strategies for industrial hazardous waste management are exist while more to implement.