Municipal solid waste management in the Southern Province of Sri Lanka: Problems, issues and challenges

Waste Management

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 920-930

  Vidanaarachchi, Chandana K ^a   Yuen, Samuel T S ^a   Pilapitiya, Sumith ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b The World Bank (Colombo Office)   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIELD OBSERVATIONS; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT; PUBLIC SURVEYS; WASTE COLLECTION;

COMPOSTING; MUNICIPAL ENGINEERING; RURAL AREAS; WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

SOLID WASTES;

COMPOSTING; MUNICIPAL ENGINEERING; RURAL AREAS; SOLID WASTES; WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

COMPOSTING; DOMESTIC WASTE; FIELD SURVEY; HOUSEHOLD SURVEY; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; STATE ROLE; WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

ARTICLE; COMPOSTING; HEALTH SURVEY; HOUSEHOLD; LANDFILL; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC FIGURE; RURAL AREA; SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT; SRI LANKA; WASTE DISPOSAL;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; CONSUMER PARTICIPATION; DATA COLLECTION; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HUMANS; INCINERATION; REFUSE DISPOSAL; SOIL; SRI LANKA; WASTE PRODUCTS;

ASIA; EURASIA; SOUTH ASIA; SOUTHERN PROVINCE [SRI LANKA]; SRI LANKA;

EID: 33745197301     PISSN: 0956053X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2005.09.013     Document Type: Article

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