INTRODUCTION Waste management through community mobilization to reduce breeding places at household level could be an effective and sustainable dengue vector control strategy in areas where vector breeding takes place in small discarded water containers. The objective of this study was to assess the validity of this assumption. METHODS An intervention study was conducted from February 2009 t...

The present paper introduces an innovative model for the estimation of urban solid waste productivity using an intelligent system based on fuzzy logic. The model retrieves the required information from a spatial Geodatabase, integrated in a GIS environment. The model takes into consideration several parameters of waste production, such as population density, maximum building density, commercial...

Microorganisms have the potential to grow within waste containers if waste is stored for longer periods as a result of an extended residual waste collection cycle. Release of microorganisms as bioaerosols during waste collection and processing may be an occupational risk to workers within the industry. There may be many constituents of the bioaerosol that may be of concern, however, there are c...

Conventional solid waste management protocols and thinking generally tend to assume that waste already exits and therefore needs to be managed. Consequently, most models of solid waste management, especially in the developing countries including Ghana, are simply reactions to the presence of something that needs to be disposed of or discarded. This paper sees this conventional solid waste manag...