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Waste management is a critical issue in urban areas due to increases in its daily generation and the shortage of natural resources. The conventional approach of ‘collection and disposal’ is no longer acceptable in terms of sustainable socio-economic development and environmental conservation. Under these high pressures, an integrated approach that...

The human environmental impacts exponentially increase along with exponential growth of the scale of economic activities, and it is pointed out that the scale of our economic activities already surpassed some of planetary boundaries. At the same time we face serious under-consumption problems in terms of poverty problems in spite of international...

Climate-change issues have been identified as a serious environmental consideration in policy agendas and also in the waste sector, greenhouse gas emissions have been recognised as an important environmental concern. This month, we hear from Nirmala Menikpura, a researcher in the Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) Area at IGES who...

This is an abstract of the APN funded project on CBA2010-01CMY-Sang-Arun-Promoting sustainable use of waste biomass in Cambodia, Lao PDR and Thailand: Combining food security, bio-energy and climate protection benefits.

Summary of an APN funded project, CBA2010-01CMY-Sang-Arun-Promoting sustainable use of waste biomass in Cambodia, Lao PDR and Thailand: Combining food security, bio-energy and climate protection benefits.

This presentation provides overview of municipal solid waste management in developing Asian countries. The content includes waste generation, collection, disposal and the 3R implementation for improvement of municipal solid waste management, income generation and resource efficiency.

This presentation provides examples of recycling and integrated waste management in developing countries. Benefits of the 3Rs and integrated waste management on climate change mitigation was presented. Also, examples of international cooperation for improvement of municipal solid waste management were introduced.

Informal recycling of electronics in the developing world has emerged as a new global environmental concern. The primary approach to address this problem has been command-and-control policies that ban informal recycling and international trade in electronic scrap. These bans are difficult to enforce and also have negative effects by reducing reuse...