The apathy of a common man towards Mother Earth and environment in particular is mainly responsible for the poor state aesthetics and health caused due to environmental degradation. As they say “Charity begins at home” is very true here. If we cannot handle a small quantity of waste materials generated in our house and depend on Local Body to take care of it, them dumping yards are bound to be there and environment is going to get degraded further and further.

The waste disposal issues have been given a small attention by the common man, Government and policymakers. This “National Conference on Waste Disposal and its Effect on Biodiversity” has been organized to publicize this burning issue of waste disposal among researchers, academicians and policymakers, so that necessary steps could be taken to get rid of these heaps of wastes.

Contents: Preface. 1. Nisargruna technology for urban and rural waste management, energy conservation, better environment and restoration of soil fertility/Sharad P. Kale. 2. Sources, effects and management of aquatic toxicants/B. Tabassum and Priya Bajaj. 3. Solid waste management to safeguard environment and human health/Pardeep Kumar and Parveen Kumar. 4. Present scenario of obsolete pesticides on public health and environment/Virendra Kumar and Chandrika Chaurasia. 5. Microalgae and wastewater treatment/Alina Javed and Priya Bajaj. 6. Histopathological and oxygen consumption alteration induced by toxicity of dimethoate on gills of fish, Channa Gachua/Qaisur Rehman and B. Tabassum. 7. Managing biodiversity, waste and air quality/Altamash Khan. 8. Problems of garbage management in urban environment: A micro level study in Rampur, Uttar Pradesh/Faiza Naeem. 9. Electronic waste: a threat to biodiversity/Sara Sayeed and Shahla Nusrat Qidwal. 10. Waste management in school and role of students/Ahsan Ali. 11. Sanitation in India: health and environmental issue/Sanjiv Kumar. 12. Bioremediation of textile waste effluents by Chlorella Vulgaris/Alina Javed. Index.