Urban Waste
19 important questions on Urban Waste
What does the hardware side of integrated solid waste management entail?
- Environment
- Resource management
What does the software side of integrated solid waste management entail?
- Inclusivity
- Financial sustainability
What does urbanization and consumption increase lead to?
- Industrial waste
- E-waste
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What are the drivers of solid waste management?
- Environmental protection
- Resource depletion
- Climate
Waste is a source of:
- Diseases
- Nuisance
- Danger for humans and wildlife
What does organic waste lead to?
- eutrophication
- greenhouse gasses
Flow of waste materials
- Transfer and transport
- Processing and transformation
- Disposal
What can be said about Waste culture?
What can be said about Waste policy?
- Failed systems are a nuisance to citizens
Urban waste history (1850's)
- relatively scarce resources
- goods were repaired and reused
- food & garden waste reused
Urban waste history (1850's/1970's)
- industrial revolution
- focus of solid waste was on collection
Phases in the development of modern waste management policy
- Technical fix
- Integrated policy
- Targets prevention
What was the common line of thought until the 1970's?
What has happened since the 1970's?
What was the response to the health effects of dumping in the 1970's/1980's?
What was introduced when disposal space became a problem?
What became apparent once the municipality started collecting waste?
What are solutions to waste?
- Composting
- Anaerobic treatment
- Grey waste separation/treatment
Why can't technology alone fix the problem?
- user friendly collection
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