Poor sanitation in urban slums results in increased prevalence of diseases and pollution of the environment. Excreta, grey water and solid wastes are the major contributors to the …
CR Lohri, EJ Camenzind, C Zurbrügg - Waste management, 2014 - Elsevier
Providing good solid waste management (SWM) services while also ensuring financial sustainability of the system continues to be a major challenge in cities of developing …
J Okot-Okumu, R Nyenje - Habitat international, 2011 - Elsevier
This paper examines municipal solid waste management in Uganda under the decentralisation policy. The aim is to analyse devolved solid waste management and the …
NI Sinthumule, SH Mkumbuzi - Resources, 2019 - mdpi.com
After years of conventional approaches to solid waste management (SWM), in 2009, Bulawayo City Council adopted a non-conventional approach in the form of community …
T Kabera, DC Wilson… - Waste Management & …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper aims to benchmark performance of combined solid waste management (SWM) and recycling systems in major cities of East Africa. The Wasteaware indicators are used to …
The aim of this paper is to describe the optimisation of Waste Minimisation/Zero Waste strategies into an already established integrated waste management system and to present …
The amount of greenhouse gases (GHG) emitted due to waste management in the cities of developing countries is predicted to rise considerably in the near future; however, these …
SA Batool, MN Ch - Waste management, 2009 - Elsevier
This study deals with generation, composition, collection, transportation, and disposal, as well as the present cost of the waste management on the basis of 60% collection of the total …
Previously perceived as a local, technical issue for governments, waste management is now also a global, socio-political process involving complex patterns of multi-level governance …