| Information Resources for Solid Waste Management |
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Among all the urban sectors, solid waste management is one of the most adequately served by research and practical guidance.
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| Publications of the World Bank |
| The World Bank has an extensive collection of on-line
documents available, including: Bartone, C., L. Benavides, "Local Management of
Selective Hazardous Wastes from Small Scale and Cottage Industries," Waste
Management & Research (1997) 15, 3-21. "Guidance Note on Recuperation of Landfill Gas from Municipal Solid Waste Landfills." Lars Mikkel Johannessen, The World Bank, Urban & Local Government Working Paper Series No. 3, Washington, DC, September 1999. This note helps guide task team leaders and members to prepare projects involving the landfilling of municipal solid waste, landfill gas (LFG) recovery, and introduces the option of enhanced bioreactor landfill. Guidelines for conducting a baseline feasibility study are included in this note, along with an overview of the construction, operation, and training requirements for the implementation of LFG recovery. Costs and benefits of LFG recovery are illustrated together with a comparison of the economics of LFG recovery from a traditional landfill and from an enhanced bioreactor landfill. "Observations of Solid Waste Landfills in Developing Countries: Africa, Asia, and Latin America." Lars Mikkel Johannessen with Gabriela Boyer, The World Bank, Urban & Local Government Working Paper Series No. 3, Washington, DC, July 1999. This publication identifies emerging features, practices, and necessary improvements in the final disposal of solid waste and discusses trends in the regulatory area, private sector involvement, tipping fees, and the impact of waste pickers on sanitary landfills. The authors report the following three cross-regional findings: 1) the extensive use of daily soil cover on newly deposited or compacted waste; 2) little management of landfill gas, and; 3) problematic and often inadequate leachate management measures. The report reviews long-term environmental impacts and offers recommendations for improvements in World Bank projects that have solid waste components. "What A Waste: Solid Waste Management in urban issues Asia." Daniel Hoornweg with Laura Thomas, The World Bank, Urban & Local Government Working Paper Series No. 1, Washington, DC, May 1999. This publication contains one of the most comprehensive compilations of municipal waste data in Asia. It analyzes the broad trends related to solid waste management in Asia and how to reduce the impact of these trends; it discusses escalating costs incurred by waste management on local governments and offers possible strategies to handle such increases; and it addresses an integrated solid waste management strategy where the selection and application of appropriate techniques, technologies, and management programs work together to achieve specific waste management objectives and goals. |
| Organizations |
| The Swiss Centre for Development Cooperation in
Technology and Management (SKAT) is a leading Swiss consultancy firm working
internationally in the areas of Water and Sanitation, Architecture and
Building, Transport Infrastructure, and Urban Development. Since 1978, SKAT, as
a consultancy organisation and a sectoral documentation centre, has collected
relevant information on appropriate technologies, documented lessons learned,
and disseminated them. In partnership with institutions and individuals in
developing countries, SKAT shares learning processes designed to build
awareness, knowledge and capacities. SKAT seeks to provide balanced
contributions to technical cooperation and to initiate sustainable development
processes which empower target groups to achieve self-reliance. |
| International Solid Waste Management Association |
| This association based in Denmark has prepared a
Developing Countries Network Booklet. It is of fundamental importance to all
nations to ensure that solid waste management expertise is shared with
developing economies and to prevent a repeat of the slow and painful
evolutionary process in the management of waste experienced earlier in this
century. The ISWA Booklet is the first result of an ISWA initiative to respond
to the growing need for exchange of information. The Network Booklet contains
approximately 750 contacts of professionals practising in developing countries
complemented by professionals in industrialised countries. The contacts are
listed by country and supplemented with classification and branch code.
It is for sale from: General Secretariat Overgaden Oven Vandet 48 E DK-1415 Copenhagen K Denmark Tel: +45 32 96 15 88 Fax: +45 32 96 15 84 E-mail: iswa@inet.uni2.dk |
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