Harmony of urban microcommunal-based domestic waste management

Domestic waste disposal practice and perceptions of private sector waste management in urban Accra

BACKGROUND Waste poses a threat to public health and the environment if it is not stored, collected, and disposed of properly. The perception of waste as an unwanted material with no intrinsic value has dominated attitudes towards disposal. This study investigates the domestic waste practices, waste disposal, and perceptions about waste and health in an urban community. METHODS The study util...

Livestock slaughterhouses waste management in urban environment

The current study presents an investigation on the waste management in the cattle slaughterhouse by the following objectives: a) to identify the existing waste management practices in relation to sources, quantity and characteristic of wastes; b) to identify the situation of production, collection, storage, transportation, processing and recycling, and final disposal of wastes and the problems ...

Domestic Waste Management and Urban Residential Environment: Focus on Akure, Nigeria

The problem of waste generation, handling and disposal has reached a disturbing level in Nigerian urban centres. This study attempts to examine the impacts of domestic waste on the residential environment of some selected neighbourhoods of Akure, capital city of Ondo State, Nigeria based on the waste disposal methods currently employed by the inhabitants of each building. The paper studied two ...

Domestic Waste Management Strategies in Accra, Ghana and Other Urban Cities

Maximising Efficiency in Domestic Waste Collection through Improved Fleet Management

This paper presents the results of a study funded by the Department for Transport investigating various strategies for optimising domestic waste collections, including joint working arrangements and alternate weekly collection. This was achieved with the aid of routing and scheduling software (Logix by DPS International). Using domestic collection round data from three waste collection authorit...