This study examined the waste management beliefs and practices of selected households in a Philippine rural municipality.  The sample used for this study involved rural families comprising of 332 households, which was drawn from the population using multistage cluster unequal allocation sampling technique. Descriptive statistics was used to analyze data gathered. Findings show that households e...

Municipal solid waste management is a major challenge, especially in metropolises. This research focuses on a non-technical issue in municipal solid waste management named municipal solid waste separation at the source and seeks to find the best policy in terms of model results. Source separation for recycling has been recognized as a way to achieve sustainable municipal solid waste (MSW) manag...

background: the municipal solid wastes (msws) are disposed in open dumps, which have no leachate collection and removal system, in the caspian region of iran. leachate readily reaches the nearby water resources such as streams, rivers, lakes, and sea. therefore, understanding the quality and quantity of open dump leachate is vital to the proper treatment of leachate. methods: the leachate sampl...

Organic fraction of solid waste, which upon degradation produces foul smell and generates pathogens, if not properly managed. Composting is not a method of waste disposal but it is a method of waste recycling and used for agricultural purposes. An integrated approach of composting methodology was tested for municipal solid waste management. Solid waste first was composted and after 22 days, was...

This paper focused on current practice, awareness, and impact of solid waste management environment, in Shahidnagar Municipality Dhanusha district. Due to lack proper baseline information, understanding public willingness fitting doable planning, collection, disposal recycling have been problematic study area. Solid has emerged as a major challenge they don’t any landfill site collection facili...

olid waste” refers to the refuse , the solid and semi solid waste matters of a community except the night soil . Solid waste contains organic as well as inorganic matters . Solid waste management includes the entire process of dealing with solid waste ,starting from the collection from the primary source to ultimately disposing off it hygienically, so that it may not be a nuisance or create any...

this research work attempts to compare the legal and technical criteria of locating household and municipal landfills and discuss them along with legal and technical principles. for this purpose, it was attempted to discuss and compare the related most important national an international standards. due to say, employing the legal standards of locating household and municipal landfills in corpo...