摘要：Recycling today constitutes the most environmental friendly method of managing solid wastes. This researchwork was carried out to evaluate the existing situation of recyclables in the households of SamanabadColony, Lahore. A survey was carried out of 726 houses and questionnaires were filled by the housekeepers.The housekeepers were provided with large size shopping bags and requested to put the waste in thesebags and hand them over to researchers. Physical analysis of the waste was done. Chemical analysis wasalso done in the laboratory of the College of Earth and Environmental Sciences. All data collected throughquestionnaire were fed in the computer and analysed. Generation rate and collection rate of the recyclableswere calculated at 0.15kg/c/day and 0.11kg/c/day respectively. The rest waste was 0.40kg/c/day. The totalmaterial which is recycled or reused is 1620.1kg/day, in which 56% is newspaper, 3.2% is magazine, 2.5%is cardboard, 2.1% is glass jam bottles, 1.7% is glass juice bottles and 16.8% is iron items, 8% is nonferrous items and 8.6% is textile. The composition of solid waste in the research area was found as follows:Paper 6.42%, Plastic 8.17%, Metal 3.18%, Organic waste 62.9%, Hazardous Waste 3.7% and Textile 6.5%.
