Municipal solid waste management in Nepal: Practices and challenges

Waste Management

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 555-562

  Pokhrel, D ^a   Viraraghavan, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSTING; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; HEALTH; LAND FILL; PROBLEM SOLVING; RIVERS; WASTE DISPOSAL;

PUBLIC HEALTH; RIVER BANKS; SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT;

WASTE MANAGEMENT;

WASTE MANAGEMENT;

ARTICLE; DUMPING; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; EVALUATION; LANDFILL; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; NEPAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; RIPARIAN ECOSYSTEM; SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; HUMANS; NEPAL; POLITICS; PUBLIC HEALTH; REFUSE DISPOSAL; RIVERS;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; NEPAL; SOUTH ASIA; WORLD;

EID: 19544366448     PISSN: 0956053X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2005.01.020     Document Type: Article

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