Municipal solid waste generation, composition, and management: the world scenario

T Karak, RM Bhagat… - Critical Reviews in …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Municipal solid waste (MSW) is the abridgment of the waste generated from domestic,
commercial, and construction activities by natural persons that is collected and treated by …

Rising incidence and risks of floods in urban Ghana: Is climate change to blame?

K Abass, G Dumedah, F Frempong, AS Muntaka… - Cities, 2022 - Elsevier
The current policy and stakeholder debates suggest that climate change remains a risk
factor for the rising urban floods situation in Ghana. However, there is a dearth of empirical …

Rising incidence of urban floods: Understanding the causes for flood risk reduction in Kumasi, Ghana

K Abass - GeoJournal, 2022 - Springer
Urban areas in Ghana have experienced worsening floods in terms of scale and number of
affected people. In many instances, attribution has been made to one dominant factor as the …

Post construction green infrastructure performance monitoring parameters and their functional components

TK Geberemariam - Environments, 2016 - mdpi.com
Drainage system infrastructures in most urbanized cities have reached or exceeded their
design life cycle and are characterized by running with inadequate capacity. These highly …

The role of solid waste management as a response to urban flood risk in developing countries, a case study analysis

J Lamond, N Bhattacharya, R Bloch - WIT Transactions on Ecology …, 2012 - witpress.com
Solid waste management is a large and growing problem for countries in the developing
world and is often a neglected aspect of urban management. However, poor waste …

[HTML][HTML] Impacto del lixiviado generado en el relleno sanitario municipal de Linares (Nuevo León) sobre la calidad del agua superficial y subterránea

H León-Gómez, CR Cruz-Vega… - Revista mexicana de …, 2015 - scielo.org.mx
La presente investigación trata sobre la calidad de las aguas naturales afectadas por la
contaminación de los lixiviados originados en el relleno sanitario municipal (RSM) de la …

Evaluation of energy potential of MSW in the tamale metropolis, Ghana: An assessment of solid waste characteristics and energy content

AW Tahiru, SJ Cobbina, W Asare - Journal of the Air & Waste …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
In the present investigation, a thorough examination of waste composition was undertaken
in the Tamale Metropolis, Ghana. The methodology employed was carefully designed …

A study and factor identification of municipal solid waste management in Mexico City

F Gutierrez Galicia, AL Coria Paez, R Tejeida Padilla - Sustainability, 2019 - mdpi.com
Mexico City generates 12 thousand tons of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) per day, which
places it as one of the cities that produces the most MSW in the world. However, the …

A system for the inclusion of the informal recycling sector (IRS) in Mexico city's solid waste management

F Gutiérrez-Galicia, AL Coria-Páez, R Tejeida-Padilla… - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
With 19 million inhabitants, Mexico City is the most populated agglomeration in Latin
America, concentrating 30% of the national population. More than 61% of municipal solid …

An approach to litter generation and littering practices in a Mexico City neighborhood

CE Muñoz-Cadena, P Lina-Manjarrez… - Sustainability, 2012 - mdpi.com
Urban litter is generated by human societies everywhere. Some litter is recyclable waste. In
this study, the acronym RMSW is used to refer to recyclable municipal solid waste generated …