An approach to tackling the environmental and health impacts of municipal solid waste disposal in developing countries

Ayomoh, Michael; Oke, Sunday Ayoola; Adedeji, Wale; Charles-Owaba, O. E.

doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2007.01.040

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“…Giusti [48] provides a review of literature on waste management practices and their impact on human health and comes to the conclusions that the evidence of adverse health outcomes for the general population living near landfill sites, incinerators, composting facilities and nuclear installations is usually insufficient and inconclusive. Finally, in a developing country context, Ayomoh [49] uses a hybrid structural interaction matrix (HSIM) to prioritize major identifiable environmental health factors to thus prioritize waste management improvements for major improvement benefit. Boadi [50] studied the impact of deficient waste services and practices in residential areas showing connections between presence of houseflies in the kitchen and the incidence of childhood diarrhea as well as the link between waste burning and the incidence of respiratory health symptoms among adults.…”

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How Assessment Methods Can Support Solid Waste Management in Developing Countries—A Critical Review

2014

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Abstract:Selecting actions for improvement of solid waste management in low and middle income countries and understanding how a specific decision choice will fit and impact on a local context is key to identifying sustainable solutions. Assessment of the choice (be it technical or managerial) and assessment of the local enabling or disabling conditions are both important steps in the decision making process. Various assessment tools and methods are currently available to support decision-making in solid waste management. Assessment can be used to identify weaknesses or strengths of existing systems in a structured way and hereby highlight factors of success and failure. Assessment methods can also evaluate and compare different possible choices as in project scenarios. This overview describes established and innovative assessment methods serving both these purposes. A range of assessment tools are often designed to assess a specific sustainability domain (technical, environmental and health, economic and financial, social and institutional, organizational aspects), others attempt to provide a more holistic picture by integrating different sustainability domains into the same tool. This paper reviews a number of methods describing and discussing each of them, and referring to their use in low and middle-income countries if published in scientific literature. The overview concludes that in low-and middle-income countries the use of comprehensive assessment methods is yet very limited. We hypothesize that most formal methods of assessment are OPEN ACCESS Sustainability 2014, 6 546 still too complex and generally overburden the weak local capacities intended for their usage. The few applications identified, were conducted by academia for scientific purposes. Lack of resources to collect the vast data required for some assessment methods is a further restriction to their practical application. Future development is suggested to improve user friendliness of existing tools or to simplify certain approaches and develop more appropriate methods. A user-oriented focus in the development of assessment tools would enhance their application, provide sound data for informed decision making and foster a dialogue between technicians and policy makers in low-and middle-income countries.

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How Assessment Methods Can Support Solid Waste Management in Developing Countries—A Critical Review

2014

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“…Therefore, using a hydrogeological and environmental geological approach and using information from comparative nuclear (Benson et al 2005;Maul et al 2007) and solid waste disposal projects (Ayomoh et al 2008;Korucu and Erdagi 2012), a safety risk assessment method for CO 2 geological storage projects in deep saline aquifers has been developed, emphasizing risk identification of safety status and short-term evaluation. Furthermore, using the Shenhua CCS Demonstration Project as a case study, we performed risk identification and evaluation, and present preliminary risk management measures.…”

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Short-term safety risk assessment of CO2 geological storage projects in deep saline aquifers using the Shenhua CCS Demonstration Project as a case study

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Although CO 2 geological storage has been recognized as an effective strategy to lower carbon emissions directly, there are no suitable guidelines for safety risk assessment of CO 2 geological storage projects in deep saline aquifers in China and elsewhere. When CO 2 is injected into deep saline aquifers, stratigraphic and structural trapping is the major basic mechanism controlling CO 2 storage capacity and migration in reservoirs. Therefore, a safety risk assessment method is proposed in this paper using perspectives from hydrogeological and environmental geology. The uncertainties and risks consist of CO 2 leakage, ground deformation, and induced earthquakes. Identifying and assessing potential risks are the first and most important step in the process of risk assessment. Based on the identification of risks of CO 2 geological storage projects, we built an elementary risk evaluation index system in an analytic hierarchy process framework. Meanwhile, the possibility of occurrence and damage to the environment and public caused by CO 2 leakage, ground deformation, and induced earthquakes was analyzed in detail, and current risk criteria were also summarized. Furthermore, using the Shenhua CO 2 Capture and Storage Demonstration Project as a case study, we performed a risk identification and evaluation by using qualitative or semi-quantitative methods in sequence, as well as developing the related preliminary risk management measures. This method and case study for short-term safety risk assessment could provide a guideline for site selection, injection design, and monitoring of CO 2 geological storage projects in deep saline aquifers.

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“…Its contribution to environmental degradation in developing countries has, however, been reported by many scientists (for example, Shandilya et al 2007;Gupta et al 2006;Gajghate and Bhanarkar 2005 for India;Miah et al 2009 for Bangladesh). Emissions from wastes causing global warming and waste itself causing environmental degradation have been reported by many scientists (for example, Calabrò 2009; Kumar et al 2004;Talyan et al 2007;Wilson et al 2006;Troschinetz and Mihelcic 2009;Mohamed et al 2009;Ayomoh et al 2008;Shekdar 2009;Giusti 2009, for developing countries, mostly in Asia).…”

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Environmental Kuznets Curve: the case of Bangladesh for waste emission and suspended particulate matter

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Economists have shown the empirical relationships between the economic growth of a nation and its environmental quality using the hypothesis of the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC). To understand the EKC phenomena, a study of the literature was undertaken. As waste, waste emission, and suspended particulate matter (SPM) are the active agents of environmental degradation, the study focused on those agents for EKC consideration. Through understanding the different EKC trajectories, an attempt was made to relate the economic development of Bangladesh to the EKC. It is shown that the EKCs for waste, emissions from waste, and SPM follow the conventional EKC trajectory with a turning point related to higher income per capita in most cases. The type of economic policy that Bangladesh should follow to deal with the pollutants and their sources is also shown. The study recommends creating a tunnel in the EKC to lower the turning point in Bangladesh. The study is likely to help stimulate policy development in Bangladesh.

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An approach to tackling the environmental and health impacts of municipal solid waste disposal in developing countries

Cited by 41 publications

References 21 publications

How Assessment Methods Can Support Solid Waste Management in Developing Countries—A Critical Review

How Assessment Methods Can Support Solid Waste Management in Developing Countries—A Critical Review

Short-term safety risk assessment of CO2 geological storage projects in deep saline aquifers using the Shenhua CCS Demonstration Project as a case study

Environmental Kuznets Curve: the case of Bangladesh for waste emission and suspended particulate matter

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