Technological Upgradation and Advancement for Treatment of Plastic Waste in Developing Countries

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Janki Govani ◽  
Harshit Patel ◽  
Yash Pujara ◽  
Karan Chabhadiya ◽  
Pankaj Pathak
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Plastic Waste

scholarly journals The United States’ contribution of plastic waste to land and ocean

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (44) ◽  
pp. eabd0288 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kara Lavender Law ◽  
Natalie Starr ◽  
Theodore R. Siegler ◽  
Jenna R. Jambeck ◽  
Nicholas J. Mallos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Environmental Quality ◽  
Ecosystem Health ◽  
The United States ◽  
Coastal Environment ◽  
Plastic Waste ◽  
Waste Generation ◽  
The World ◽  
Very High

Plastic waste affects environmental quality and ecosystem health. In 2010, an estimated 5 to 13 million metric tons (Mt) of plastic waste entered the ocean from both developing countries with insufficient solid waste infrastructure and high-income countries with very high waste generation. We demonstrate that, in 2016, the United States generated the largest amount of plastic waste of any country in the world (42.0 Mt). Between 0.14 and 0.41 Mt of this waste was illegally dumped in the United States, and 0.15 to 0.99 Mt was inadequately managed in countries that imported materials collected in the United States for recycling. Accounting for these contributions, the amount of plastic waste generated in the United States estimated to enter the coastal environment in 2016 was up to five times larger than that estimated for 2010, rendering the United States’ contribution among the highest in the world.

Addressing the challenges associated with plastic waste disposal and management in developing countries

2021 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 100682
Author(s):  
Shelby Browning ◽  
Betsy Beymer-Farris ◽  
Jeffrey R Seay
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Waste Disposal ◽  
Plastic Waste

scholarly journals Applying the extended producer responsibility towards plastic waste in Asian developing countries for reducing marine plastic debris

2021 ◽  
pp. 0734242X2110134
Author(s):  
Hendro Putra Johannes ◽  
Michikazu Kojima ◽  
Fusanori Iwasaki ◽  
Ellen Putri Edita
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Electronic Waste ◽  
Transportation Cost ◽  
Free Riding ◽  
Plastic Waste ◽  
Extended Producer Responsibility ◽  
Producer Responsibility ◽  
Rural And Remote Areas ◽  
High Transportation Cost

The extended producer responsibility (EPR) has been adopted in many countries throughout the world to give producers responsibility to manage their products until the post-consumer stage. On many occasions in developing countries, the system is mostly implemented for electronic waste. However, with the rising concern on the marine plastic issue, developing countries, including those in Asia, have started to apply EPR for package and container waste. In practice, developing countries show significant differences in their EPR implementation compared with developed ones due to contrasting conditions of several factors, including social, economic and technology. This article aims to explore the challenges of developing countries to apply EPR as well as determine possible measures to overcome the challenges. Results show that applying EPR system for plastic waste in developing countries faces many challenges, such as the existence of a market-based collection system of recyclables, high transportation cost, lack of waste collection services in rural areas, a limited number of facilities to manage certain types of plastic waste, insufficient pollution control and free riding and orphan products. The challenges, furthermore, can be minimised by differentiating the responsibility of producers, focusing on rural and remote areas, involving informal sectors, creating joint facilities in recycling parks, expanding waste management collection services, increasing the use of EPR and minimising free riding.

scholarly journals The true cost of solving the plastic waste challenge in developing countries: The case of Ghana

2021 ◽  
pp. 129649
Author(s):  
Catharina R. Bening ◽  
Sebastian Kahlert ◽  
Edward Asiedu
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Plastic Waste ◽  
True Cost

Recycling of E-plastic waste as a construction material in developing countries

2014 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 718-724 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kaliyavaradhan Senthil Kumar ◽  
Kaliyamoorthy Baskar
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Construction Material ◽  
Plastic Waste

scholarly journals Exploration of Waste Plastic Bottles Use in Construction

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (11) ◽  
pp. 2262-2272
Author(s):  
Donald Kwabena Dadzie ◽  
Abdul K Kaliluthin ◽  
D. Raj Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Construction Material ◽  
Construction Materials ◽  
Thermal Control ◽  
Plastic Waste ◽  
Waste Plastic ◽  
Plastic Bottle ◽  
Plastic Wastes ◽  
The Cost

The vision of this study is geared towards the exploitation of waste plastic bottle use in construction. This review paper is centers on the recycling of waste plastic bottles as a construction material as an effort to help solve the housing deficit in most developing countries including Ghana and to save the depletion of natural resources construction materials. In Ghana, plastic wastes are discarded randomly after usage, hence scatter around in cities, choking drains, and end up threatening our ecosystem. These predominant effects from the plastic wastes have necessitated the need for countries precisely developing countries including Ghana to seek more sustainable methods to reduce the drastic amount of plastic wastes in the environment. In view of the above, this paper focused on the recycling of waste plastic bottles as a construction material as an effort to solve the housing deficit in most developing countries including Ghana and to save the depletion of natural resources construction materials (stones and sand) are very much critical. In the reviews, an effort has been made to utilize the waster plastic bottles in construction by filling the bottles with soil, sand, solid waste materials as brick or block bounded with mortar as a masonry wall or the filled bottles are used as a substitute for the production of the masonry unit production. In summary, it was concluded based on varying test result that: (1) Plastic waste bottles are cheaper to acquire than most conventional construction materials and as such concrete or brick containing any amount of plastic bottle is noted to reduce the total quantities of conventional materials required, thereby reducing the cost as well. (2) The use of plastic waste bottles in construction contributes to environmental friendliness and energy savings since buildings with walls constructed of plastic bottles maintains room temperatures and contribute to energy saving and the cost of providing an artificial thermal control system. Doi: 10.28991/cej-2020-03091616 Full Text: PDF

scholarly journals Plastic waste release caused by COVID-19 and its fate in the global ocean

2021 ◽  
Vol 118 (47) ◽  
pp. e2111530118
Author(s):  
Yiming Peng ◽  
Peipei Wu ◽  
Amina T. Schartup ◽  
Yanxu Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Spatial Distribution ◽  
Medical Waste ◽  
Plastic Waste ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Global Ocean ◽  
Plastic Debris ◽  
Plastic Model ◽  
Single Use ◽  
The Impact

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to an increased demand for single-use plastics that intensifies pressure on an already out-of-control global plastic waste problem. While it is suspected to be large, the magnitude and fate of this pandemic-associated mismanaged plastic waste are unknown. Here, we use our MITgcm ocean plastic model to quantify the impact of the pandemic on plastic discharge. We show that 8.4 ± 1.4 million tons of pandemic-associated plastic waste have been generated from 193 countries as of August 23, 2021, with 25.9 ± 3.8 thousand tons released into the global ocean representing 1.5 ± 0.2% of the global total riverine plastic discharge. The model projects that the spatial distribution of the discharge changes rapidly in the global ocean within 3 y, with a significant portion of plastic debris landing on the beach and seabed later and a circumpolar plastic accumulation zone will be formed in the Arctic. We find hospital waste represents the bulk of the global discharge (73%), and most of the global discharge is from Asia (72%), which calls for better management of medical waste in developing countries.

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