Waste management is particularly challenging for Small Island Developing States (SIDS)
due to their high per-capita infrastructure costs, remoteness, narrow resource bases and …

Developing countries adopt policies to reduce the negative impacts of large amount of waste
generated by accelerated industrialization and rapid urbanization, but these actions are far …

The poor state of solid waste management in cities of developing countries is fast assuming
the scale of a major social/environmental challenge. The main drivers of the waste problem …

As a key utility service that more than 2 billion people are currently lacking, solid waste
management (SWM) is a crosscutting issue that can be directly linked to 12 out of the 17 UN …

As the world becomes more urbanized and developed consumption rates are on the rise. An
inevitable consequence of more consumption is the rapid increase in the amount of solid …

Most developing and least developed countries are currently facing serious development
challenges that may enhanced if same old traditional development plans are still in …

This paper identifies six broad groups of drivers for development in waste management.
Public health led to the emergence of formalized waste collection systems in the nineteenth …

This paper reviews the waste management practises and the issue of sustainable
development in Nigeria. It was discovered that mainly, private sector participation, highway …

This paper uses the lens of 'integrated sustainable waste management'to examine how
cities in developing countries have been tackling their solid waste problems. The history of …

Waste is the most visible evidence of inefficiency in any environment. As in many Sub-
Saharan African (SSA) countries, the waste problem in Nigeria is of serious concern to …