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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Solid Waste Management Systems"”.
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Development of a decision support tool for planning municipal solid waste management systems in India
Waste management is a significant challenge for India. The Indian waste landscape is changing rapidly as the population grows, the composition of the waste generated evolves, the extent of waste segmentation changes and the technologies available to collect and process waste improve. Many solutions …
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Using Waste Diversion Indicators To Understand The Diversion Efficiency and the Materials Handled Efficiency of Canadian Solid Waste Management Systems
Waste management systems suffer from a lack of comparability of data. They also suffer from a lack of indicators to properly identify efficient systems from inefficient systems. This study’s objectives are to: (i) introduce a new waste diversion indicator, the Diversion Size Indicator, to better …
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Circumstantial social entrepreneurship: Exploring inclusive, social innovation in the transition from shadow to mainstream economic spaces. A case study of informal sector recycling activities in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
As global solid waste management systems evolve to include wider elements of sustainability, developing countries are struggling with how best to work with a growing informal sector. This research seeks to investigate how developing country mainstream solid waste management systems can harness the …
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Municipal solid waste management and institutions in Tripoli, Libya : applying the environmentally sound technologies (ESTs) concept
Solid waste management systems in developed countries are undergoing a transformation to a resource recovery-based model. Conversely, in many developing countries waste management is still inadequate in terms of environmental and public health. The environmentally sound technology (EST) concept, …
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Sustainable management of municipal solid waste : a zero waste strategy for the City of Surrey
… increases, and curb the impact of municipal solid waste on the environment and human well-being, the City of Surrey, BC, is pursuing the development of a zero waste strategy (ZWS). This study uses data collected through case studies, literature review, document and gap analysis, an online …
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Semiformal waste management at the community level: a case study of employment opportunity creation in Cape Town, South Africa
… tackle the pressing matter of municipal solid waste management, particularly in developing countries, it is imperative to employ inventive and sustainable approaches. At the core of these approaches lie waste workers, who assume an essential function within Solid Waste Management Systems …
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Temporal and Spatial Analysis of Landfills and Transfer Stations in Saskatchewan
… comprehensive analysis of municipal solid waste management systems in Saskatchewan is inherently difficult. Most of the published waste studies however focus on city-level waste management, and there is a lack of literature with respect to the rural areas. In first part of the study, …
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Investigating solid waste management strategies in developing countries using Nigeria as a case study
Achieving effective municipal solid waste management always poses challenges across urban cities in developing countries. The presence of uncollected solid waste in neighbourhoods, roadsides, and drainage is a common sight in these countries. In urban cities, the presence of uncollected waste is …