Municipal solid waste management in developing countries: A perspective on Vietnam

Environmental Engineering and Management Journal

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 469-478

  Omran, Abdelnaser ^a   Gavrilescu, Maria ^b  

^a SCHOOL OF PHYSICS   (Malaysia)

^b GHEORGHE ASACHI TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF IASI   (Romania)

Author keywords

Collection; Handling; Landfill disposal; Recycling; Resources recovery; Solid waste generation; Vietnam; Waste composition and transfer

Indexed keywords

EID: 53849139135     PISSN: 15829596     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.30638/eemj.2008.070     Document Type: Article

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