Like most developing countries, Zambia has been going through very difficult times economically. This has seriously affected the capacity of various government agencies to provide public services. As a result the government and its agencies have over the past decade been forced to reassess the way in which publicly provided urban services are delivered. The key policy response has been a moveme...

In China, Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) problems are growing fast. The annual waste generation increasing almost 10% per year and the population of municipalities is expanding, but sanitary landfill and recycling facilities are still rare to see. With rapid economic development, it is even harder to achieve waste reduction, reuse and recycling than developed countries which have significantly med...

Santa Marta and Vigario Geral are the two favelas (squatter settlements) of the roughly 600 favelas in Rio de Janeiro. While not being the poorest of the poor, the favelas are still suffering from precarious services and lack of infrastructure. Waste is one of the visual measures of existing inequalities in Rio de Janeiro. Approximately 20% of the favela dwellers suffer from precarious and subs...

Recent years have seen significant increases in the average heating values of wastes in Central Europe. Essentially, this can be attributed to recycling measures, separate recovery of waste streams, and treatment and processing procedures in modified waste management concepts. As a result of the above and due to the increasingly frequent application of energy recovery procedures for commercial ...

Discard studies have demonstrated that waste is more than just a symptom of an all-too-human demand for meaning, or a merely technical problem for the likes of sanitary engineers and public health officials. The afterlife of waste materials and processes of waste management reveal the centrality of transient and discarded things for questions of materiality and ontology, marginal and polluting ...

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4. With an aim to improve the waste management, Mongolia developed the following regulations: “A rule on classification, collection, temporary storage, transportation, treatment of hazardous wastes” (2002); “Regulation and procedures on disposal and landfill of hazardous waste of business entities, and requirements on waste containers and waste disposal sites” (2006); “Methodology for calculati...

Even though solid waste management has become a major public health and environmental concern in urban areas of Ethiopia, only 2% of the population receive solid waste management services. The primary objective of this study is to assess solid waste management practices of Bahir Dar City. The technique of multistage random sampling has been employed to draw 350 households for this study, with b...