With the rapid increase in manufacturing companies, the waste management problem has been augmented. Municipal organizations are responsible for keeping an eye on the environmental conditions and cleaning the county’s waste. In the city areas, inappropriate measures for waste cleaning can result in serious transportation problems. The municipal corporation uses children for waste cleaning jobs to get an easy way out. This is the negligence of government monitoring and laws regulation, as the governmental bodies are not obeying the rules set by the government.

Waste Management And Child Labor

Waste picking does seem like an easy task, but there are considerable problems and issues involved with this type of child labor. Chemical and medicine wastes have a certain lifespan, after which they become poisonous. Touching them can leave poisonous materials on the hands, which can enter the body while eating.

Moreover, there are contaminated injections or needles that are dumped, and they can also be lethal if exposed to the body by mistake. All these issues of health, nourishment, and behavior of children are proportional to the practice of child labor in those countries, which is a rising issue in contemporary times.

Many organizations are working for children’s education and health in rural areas to raise the quality of standards for unprivileged families and reduce the rate of child labor. However, in the present scenario, child labor stands as a massive problem that the efforts of NGOs alone cannot solve.

The government, in this respect, has been ignorant and sluggish in pondering the issue of child labor and finding remedies for it. This explains the reason why this issue still exists in many underdeveloped countries, even after several types of research and census since governments are least focused on developing the rural population. 

Problems identified in this research are the health and psychological issues involved in child labor and the causes of the growing rate of child labor in the world.

A comparative study is done for three countries that have a high rate of child labor to understand what factors lead to engaging children in labor work and why these factors have not been eradicated from the face of such countries.

It has been observed that the industrial growth in urban cities has increased the trend of child migration to the city areas for employment.