Characterization, generation, and management of household solid waste in Tulsipur, Nepal

Dangi, Mohan B.; Urynowicz, Michael A.; Belbase, Shashidhar

doi:10.1016/j.habitatint.2013.02.005

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“…Similarly, MSW management has been a challenging environmental issue in Tulsipur, Nepal. All of the generated MSW was directly discharged to the Patu Khola River without any treatment before dumping [26]. Developed European countries such as Germany, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands, and Sweden have more systematic MSW practices.…”

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Evaluation of Municipal Solid Waste Management Practices for an Industrialized City

Özbay¹

2015

Pol. J. Environ. Stud.

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Evaluation of Municipal Solid Waste Management Practices for an Industrialized City

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2015

Pol. J. Environ. Stud.

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“…However, because of their commercial value, these remain comparatively costly and the underlying raw data inaccessible. Field-based quantification of solid wastes from individual households or waste management facilities can be used to estimate solid waste volumes, by type of waste [31,[40][41][42]. In practice, the assessment of specific waste types (e.g.…”

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Estimation of packaged water consumption and associated plastic waste production from household budget surveys

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Dzodzomenyo

Aryeetey

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Environ. Res. Lett.

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Packaged water consumption is growing in low-and middle-income countries, but the magnitude of this phenomenon and its environmental consequences remain unclear. This study aims to quantify both the volumes of packaged water consumed relative to household water requirements and associated plastic waste generated for three West African case study countries. Data from household expenditure surveys for Ghana, Nigeria and Liberia were used to estimate the volumes of packaged water consumed and thereby quantify plastic waste generated in households with and without solid waste disposal facilities. In Ghana, Nigeria and Liberia respectively, 11.3 (95% confidence interval: 10.3-12.4), 10.1 (7.5-12.5), and 0.38 (0.31-0.45) Ml day −1 of sachet water were consumed. This generated over 28 000 tonnes yr −1 of plastic waste, of which 20%, 63% and 57% was among households lacking formal waste disposal facilities in Ghana, Nigeria and Liberia respectively. Reported packaged water consumption provided sufficient water to meet daily household drinking-water requirements for 8.4%, less than 1% and 1.6% of households in Ghana, Nigeria and Liberia respectively. These findings quantify packaged water's contribution to household water needs in our study countries, particularly Ghana, but indicate significant subsequent environmental repercussions.

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“…Similar methods were used in two other studies (Dangi, Urynowicz, & Belbase, 2013;Dangi, Fernandez, Bom, Belbase, & Kaphle, 2015). The 336 households selected come from 20 of the 35 Kathmandu city wards using threestage cluster sampling techniques representing four socioeconomic strata (Scheaffer, Mendenhall, & Ott, 2006).…”

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Foreign aid in waste management: A case of Kathmandu, Nepal

Dangi

Schoenberger

Boland

2015

Habitat International

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Abstract:Four decades of reorganization of waste management in Kathmandu, Nepal funded by foreign aid failed to provide adequate services and led to the return of riverbank waste disposal by 1994. To assess the results of foreign aid in waste management in Kathmandu from 1970 to 2010, the researchers utilized qualitative and field methods and examined three major international projects sponsored by the gov-ernments of Germany, India, and Japan. Results suggest that German aid was too technical, undermining municipal capacity and burdening the city with a second waste disposal institution while failing to sustain its own infrastructure. The Indian project lacked focus and follow up programs and encumbered a poor country with outdated equipment that did not meet the local needs. Japanese aid depended on wrong assumptions, stressing costly landfilling that employed heavy machinery and upgraded equip-ment inappropriate for local conditions. The study recommends that Nepal institute bottom-up and participatory style of waste management that identifies where the resources will come from, who will manage them, and how they will be sustained.

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Characterization, generation, and management of household solid waste in Tulsipur, Nepal

Cited by 38 publications

References 16 publications

Evaluation of Municipal Solid Waste Management Practices for an Industrialized City

Evaluation of Municipal Solid Waste Management Practices for an Industrialized City

Estimation of packaged water consumption and associated plastic waste production from household budget surveys

Foreign aid in waste management: A case of Kathmandu, Nepal

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