Community-based household waste management: Lessons learnt from EXNORA's 'zero waste management' scheme in two South Indian cities

Habitat International

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 916-931

  Colon, Marine ^a   Fawcett, Ben ^b  

^a Service Equipement Rural   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Community management; India; Integrated solid waste management; Recycling

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION; RECYCLING; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

ANDHRA PRADESH; ASIA; CHENNAI; EURASIA; HYDERABAD; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA; TAMIL NADU; VISAKHAPATNAM;

EID: 33750226086     PISSN: 01973975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2005.04.006     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. Ali M., and Cotton A. Process of change-field notes (2000), WEDC, Loughborough University, UK
2. Anand P.B. Waste management in Madras Revisited. Environment and Urbanization 11 2 (1999) 161-176
3. Anschütz, J. (1996). Community-based solid waste management and water supply projects: Problems and solutions compared-A survey of the literature. Urban Waste Expertise Programme, Community Participation in Waste Management, UWEP Working Document 2, Gouda, The Netherlands.
4. Appleton J., Mansoor Ali., and Cotton A. Success and sustainability indicators-a tool to assess primary collection schemes, case study: Khulna, Bangladesh (2000), WEDC, Loughborough University, UK
5. Colon, M. (2002). The role of community-based organizations in zero waste management in urban residential areas, two case studies of South India. MSc Engineering for Development Dissertation, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Southampton, UK.
6. Furedy, C. (2002). Urban waste and rural farmers: Enabling low-cost organic waste reuse in developing countries. Sixth World Congress on Integrated Resources Management, Geneva 2002. City Farmer, Canada's Office of Urban Agriculture, Canada. http://www.cityfarmer.org/UrbanRuralWaste.html. accessed on 29 September 2002.
7. Government of India (1998). Interim report of the committee constituted by the Honorable Supreme Court of India on solid waste management in class I cities in India. New Delhi, India.
8. Haan, C.H., Coad, A., & Lardinois, I. (1998). Municipal solid waste management-Involving micro- and small enterprises: Guidelines for municipal managers. International Training Centre of the ILO, SKAT, WASTE, Turin, Italy.
9. Maqsood Sinha, A.H. Md., & Enayetullah, I. (Eds.), (2000). Community based solid waste management: The Asian experience. Paper Presented at the Waste Concern Regional Seminar on Community Based Solid Waste Management, Dhaka (Bangladesh), 19-20 February, Waste Concern Publications, Dhaka.
10. Ministry of Environment and Forests of India (2000). Municipal Solid Wastes (Management and Handling) Rules, http://www.tidco.com/india_policies/environment_policies/ municipal_solid_wastes.asp. accessed on 29 September 2002.
11. Moreno J.A., Ríos F.R., and Lardinois I. Solid waste management in Latin America: The role of micro- and small enterprises and cooperatives (1999), Urban Waste Series 5, IPES, ACEPESA, WASTE, Lima, Peru
12. Pauchri R.K., and Batra R.K. Directions, innovations, and strategies for harnessing action for sustainable development-green India 2047 (2001), Tata Energy Research Institute, New Delhi, India
13. Rosenberg, L., & Furedy, C. (1996). International source book on environmentally sound technologies for municipal solid waste management. Compiled by IETC in collaboration with the Harvard Institute of International Development. Osaka: International Environmental Technology Centre, United Nations Environment Program.
14. Slater R.A., Frederickson J., and Gilbert E.J. The state of composting 1999, results of the composting association's survey of UK composting facilities and collection systems in 1999 (1999), The Composting Association, Wellingborough, UK
15. Snel, M. (1998). NGOs/CBOs in solid waste management in Hyderabad (India). 24th WEDC Conference Paper held in Islamabad, Pakistan.
16. World Bank. World development report: infrastructure for development (1994), Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK