municipal solid waste management in vietnam: status and the strategic actions

municipal solid waste management in vietnam: status and the strategic actions

in vietnam, municipal solid waste (msw) has being become increasing complex due to variety of reasons as the increasing quantity, changing composition of msw, rising public awareness and municipal administration policies among different cities and surrounding communities. there is not currently an efficient management system in place for facilities such as storage, collection, transfer, tran...

Municipal solid waste management in China: status, problems and challenges.

This paper presents an examination of MSW generation and composition in China, providing an overview of the current state of MSW management, an analysis of existing problems in MSW collection, separation, recycling and disposal, and some suggestions for improving MSW systems in the future. In China, along with urbanization, population growth and industrialization, the quantity of municipal soli...

Municipal Solid Waste Management in Russian Federation: Status and Perspectives

INTRODUCTION Above 150 mln. m 3 (~37.5 mln. tonnes taking into account of density coefficient as 0.25) of municipal solid wastes (MSW) are annually produced in Russia (Cherp and Vinichenko (1996; Korneev & Bukreev, 2001). Landfilling is still the most common way for disposal of MSW in our country (Table 1). However, nowadays, MSW management in Russia is undergoing drastic changes (closure of ol...

Municipal Solid Waste Management in Coastal Line of Gilan Province

Sea shores of Gilan Province is one off the biggest tourist attractions in Iran. This area have valuable forests and grasslands. In addition it provides significant amount of corps like rice, tea, olive. Considering this facts, environmental protection of this area must be priority for national government. However waste management instruction have been ratified in Iran, there isn’t any specific...

Life Cycle Assessment of Municipal Solid Waste Management in Tehran

Due to increasing solid waste generation and their significant impacts on human health, environmental assessment of the management and disposal methods become more and more important. There are various disposal methods which are the combinations that originate from a wide range of solid waste management systems. In this study, municipal waste of Tehran (which totals to 7507.5 tons/day) is asses...

The economics of municipal solid waste management.