Waste management policy and strategy

Solid waste is a global challenge that is more pronounced in developing countries such as South Africa, where its management is a major concern. The government has recently made a concerted effort to engage the public in sustainable waste management practices to resolve the crisis occasioned by the challenge. This chapter investigates waste management practices in the South African Township of Ekuphumleni and relied on a sample of 353 households to obtain some primary data with a questionnaire on the subject matter. The data collected was analyzed using “R,” and the results were presented using charts, tables, and figures. Data collected revealed that waste paper, cans, used plastics, and bottles were major waste components generated by the respondents and these wastes were generally stored unseparated domestically in plastic bags and home garbage can. Furthermore, the respondent indicated that the municipality does a door-to-door collection of their waste and they were unwilling to pay for waste collection services. While the waste management practice is in tandem with the municipal system, the study recommends that the respondents must be educated on circularity, which will ensure reducing, reusing, recycling, and recovering waste and further aid economic empowerment.

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“…A waste management system includes appropriate separation and decommissioning, logistics, storage, worker training and disposal facilities [41].…”

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An Investigation of Waste Management Practice in a South African Township: A Case Study of Ekuphumleni Township, Ndlambe Municipality

Adeniran¹,

Motsatsi²,

Mbanga³

et al. 2022

Solid Waste Management - Recent Advances, New Trends and Applications

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“…It is notable that, in reality, the ash waste from coalfuelled power plants typically contains some ~400 tonnes of toxic heavy metals including radioactive U and Th, and more than 5 × 10 3 tonnes of noxious gases which as a rule need purification before discharge [4]. The most important lesson learned from the past 60 years of the peaceful use of nuclear energy is to consider and account for nuclear waste management (NWM) even before the waste is generated and then integrate its management at the country level to provide trust to stakeholders which usually perceive nuclear waste as a problematic issue [5][6][7]. Indeed, adequate and highly effective NWM technologies are already developed and used both at international and national levels within most of the countries which use to a certain extent nuclear energy [8][9][10][11][12][13].…”

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Challenges in Planning of Integrated Nuclear Waste Management

Drace¹,

Ojovan

Samanta³

2022

Sustainability

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Planning for integrated nuclear waste management (INWM) entails consideration of all generated waste from energy generation, nuclear fuel cycle and institutional facilities as well as waste from decommissioning and remediation of nuclear facilities, legacy waste, and eventual accident waste and requires establishment of different planning scenarios as well as control milestones to allow for adequate flexibility to address inevitable changes. An early assessment of waste management needs from development and use of advanced reactors and innovative nuclear fuel cycles is required to aid design and operation of such facilities as well as to understand their impact to overall waste management planning. Major prerequisites for approach to planning and establishment of INWM plans are discussed briefly. It is pointed out that five most important challenges in establishing and implementing the INWM plan needs to be addressed: (i) inventory; (ii) time frame for an integrated plan; (iii) assessment of facility needs; (iv) costs estimation (life-cycle cost analyses) and (v) funding and financing. The INWM has to promote strategic thinking within a broad framework resulting in a sustainable and sensible outcome for nuclear waste management at a strategic and national level.

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Nuclear Waste Disposal

Ojovan

2023

Encyclopedia

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Waste management policy and strategy

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An Investigation of Waste Management Practice in a South African Township: A Case Study of Ekuphumleni Township, Ndlambe Municipality

An Investigation of Waste Management Practice in a South African Township: A Case Study of Ekuphumleni Township, Ndlambe Municipality

Challenges in Planning of Integrated Nuclear Waste Management

Nuclear Waste Disposal

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