The identification and classification of plastics plays an important role in waste management and recycling processes. Present electrical and optical sorting techniques lack the required resolution for accurate identification in a high throughput manner for a diverse set of plastics commonly found in municipal waste. In this work a multi-spectral infrared spectroscopic technique is employed to ...

This study employed contingent valuation method to estimate the willingness to pay (WTP) of the households to improve the waste collection system in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The objective of this study is to evaluate how household WTP changes when recycling and waste separation at source is made mandatory. The methodology consisted of asking people directly about their WTP for an additional wast...

This paper provides an overview of solid waste management by local authorities in the Sucre municipality in Caracas, Venezuela. Sucre is currently faced with serious demographic, economic, social, urban, and administrative challenges in solid waste management. The municipality, called Petare, has one of the largest slums in Latin America. It is estimated that more than a million people live in ...

This paper identifies instituional arrangmenets and characteristics which either facilitate or impede regional cooperation in municipal solid waste management. The research draws upon an examination of five solid waste regions formed in Tennessee in 1992 in response to state legislation requiring development of comprehensive solid waste management plans. Characteristics and institutional arrang...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Dengue is an important public health problem in Yogyakarta city, Indonesia. The aim of this study was to build an innovative community-centered dengue-ecosystem management intervention in the city and to assess the process and results. METHODS For describing the baseline situation, entomological surveys and household surveys were carried out in six randomly selected ...

Solid Waste Management has been a problem for rural and urban communities. The study aims to provide basis communities improve their awareness, attitudes, practices on solid waste management at household level collaborate with local government units toward effective Household (HSWM) implementation, ordinances, mitigation. A 30-item close-ended assessment 5-item follow-up questions was construct...

solid waste management system is a collection of activities used for regulate society waste in the manner of engineering and sanitary. in order to have waste management system in rural areas there should be appropriate building capacity. the status quo of functional elements in rural solid waste management system in iran includes collecting and disposing in the ground. the mean of per capita pr...

The present investigation is a case study of Lucknow, the main metropolis in Northern India, which succumbs to a major problem of municipal solid waste and its management. A qualitative investigation using strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats analysis (SWOT) has been successfully implemented through this community participation study. This qualitative investigation emphasizes the li...

In many countries, open dumping is considered the simplest, cheapest, and most cost-effective way of managing solid wastes. Thus, in underdeveloped economies, Municipal Solid Wastes (MSW) are openly dumped. Improper waste disposal causes air, water, soil pollution, impairing permeability blockage drainage system. Waste Management (SWM) can be enhanced by operating a well-engineered site with ca...

With urbanization, rising income and consumption, the production of waste increases. One most important directions in field sustainable development is design implementation monitoring management systems for collection removal. Smart (SWM) involves example analytics data from sensors on smart garbage bins (SGBs), trucks urban infrastructure; planning optimization truck routes; etc. The purpose t...