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Municipal waste management policy in Europe: how the treadmill of production undermines sustainability goals
Though sustainability is the official goal of European Union waste management policy, the recent problem of illegal municipal waste shipment from Germany to the Czech Republic suggests that achieving a sustainable municipal waste management sector within a more broadly sustainable society is threatened by current and proposed policies. To understand the lessons of the Czech case for European ...
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Evaluating financial aspects of municipal solid waste management in Mysore City, India
Majority of waste management plans are severely constrained by the lack of resources to finance these services. In developing countries, collection and transportation of waste are the most costly Solid Waste Management (SWM) activities. Safe disposal invariably receives less attention. Mysore City, one of the largest cities of Karnataka (India) with a population of around 0.8 million, is facing ...
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Municipal solid waste management
Management of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) is one of the most basic obligatory functions of the Urban Local Bodies. In most of the cities, however, the standard of waste management needs improvement. The environmental and health hazards caused by the unsanitary conditions in the cities were epitomised by the episode of plague in Surat in 1994. That triggered public interest litigation in the ...
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Occupational health hazards of the working group associated with municipal solid waste management at Kolkata in Eastern India
The reasonable concern of many developing nations (India) is the presence of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) workers (ragpickers in particular) who scavenge garbage bins and landfill areas to salvage recyclable materials. In order to examine the health of the working group associated with MSW disposal, a study was conducted among the conservancy staff and ragpickers. The demographic and ...
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Waste dynamics, decoupling and ex post policy effectiveness: evidence from the EU15
This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of municipal and packaging waste generation dynamics, based on panel data for the EU15. The evidence provides some valuable policy implications since it analyses the extent to which decoupling has occurred for the two waste streams and if and how effectively EU waste policy has influenced the waste generation-income relationship since 1995. We ...
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Recycling Problems in Paradise
Just a few months ago, Costa Rica landed in the center stage of environmentalism after running on 100 percent renewable energy for the first 75 days of 2015. With an already strong image in the environmentalist movement,this achievement only came to reinforce the country’s relevance in the green arena. Nonetheless, critique emerged around the validity of this relevance, due to the pollution ...
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Lamor Waste Management Services
In the pursuit of new oil and gas finds around the world, exploration and drilling companies are concentrating their efforts in many new and emerging territories. Many of these new locations lack basic amenities such as sanitation; water and waste management. They are often devoid of infrastructure and support services to cope with the burgeoning demands placed upon them, especially when it comes ...
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Keeping APCr out of Landfill
The CIWM have recently featured an article by our very own Dr David Deegan in the latest edition of their magazine. The article explains why Tetronics International were unhappy to be informed recently that Defra ministers had taken the decision not to remove the derogation that allows Air Pollution Control residues to be disposed of to landfill at three times the standard waste acceptance ...
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Could COVID-19 be the catalyst for greener waste management?
The global COVID-19 pandemic is the most disruptive health, economic and social event in a generation, and its impact is ongoing. Coronavirus lockdown has forced organisations in every sector to reassess the way they operate – including how essential services like waste management are provided. As the UK begins to restart and find a ‘new normal’, local authorities are in a ...
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