scholarly journals Solid Waste Management Practices at The Academic Institution: Current Situation and Strategic Plan

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (01) ◽  
pp. 18-24
Author(s):  
Euis Nurul Hidayah ◽  
Imroatul Mufidah ◽  
Indah Fitriana Solichah ◽  
Okik Hendriyanto Cahyonugroho ◽  
Kindriari Nurma Wahyusi
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Solid Waste Management ◽  
Waste Collection ◽  
Collection System ◽  
Water Transportation ◽  
Waste Management Practices ◽  
Transportation Schedule ◽  
The University

Waste management is one of the actionsof environmental management for improving environmental quality. This study describes the waste management in the campus through improvement of operational techniques, starting from container, collection, and transportation. Case study was taken in the university, which the amount of waste generation is about 166.559 kg/day or 0.013 L/person/day. The waste collection system is designed to use individual disaggregated sorting patterns that are adjusted to the composition of the waste, colour differentiation, and label of the container. Amount of sorted containers are 478 pieces. The waste collection system is planned by an indirect individual collection pattern and a temporary shelter plan in the form of a partition wall is adjusted to the composition of the waste. Planning for waste transportation system is using a fixed container system with motor cart under capacity of 2.3 m3 with 1 fleet. Transportation is carried out on a scheduled basis. Transportation management is arranged twice per-day for organic waste, once per-day for valuable waste, once per-week for hazardous waste, once every 2 days for other water. Transportation schedule is carried out twice per-day, in the morning and evening.

scholarly journals Strategies for Improving Recycling at a Higher Education Institution: A Case Study of the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jamar Bailey ◽  
Maria Pena ◽  
Terry Tudor
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
West Indies ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
National Level ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
The West ◽  
Waste Management Practices ◽  
The University

Enhancing the sustainability of the management of waste from Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs) is becoming an increasingly important issue, globally. Using the University of the West Indies (UWI), Cave Hill campus, in Barbados as the case study HEI, and a combination of questionnaires, key informant interviews and waste audits, the study aimed to understand waste management practices on campus, as well as to gain an insight into how waste is managed at the national level. The results suggest that the key challenge facing sustainable waste management at the University and the country in general was limited financial resources. Key motivators for recycling at the UWI were its benefits to keeping the Campus clean and the generation of funds. The major barriers were a lack of motivation, high bin contamination and a lack of knowledge regarding the Recycling Initiative. Bin location had a significant impact on recyclable and contamination levels. Per capita overall and recyclable arisings at the University were 393.93 grams and 308.35 grams respectively. Recommendations included increased education and initiative awareness and strategies to reduce bin contamination. At the national level, increased public awareness programs and involving everyone in the process were key strategies proposed to overcome the challenges.

scholarly journals Design of a Municipal Solid Waste Collection System in Situations with a Lack of Resources: Nikki (Benin), a Case in Africa

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 1785
Author(s):  
Mar Carlos-Alberola ◽  
Antonio Gallardo Izquierdo ◽  
Francisco J. Colomer-Mendoza ◽  
Esther Barreda-Albert
Keyword(s):  
Municipal Solid Waste ◽  
Solid Waste ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Waste Collection ◽  
Collection System ◽  
Solid Waste Collection ◽  
Waste Management Practices ◽  
The Town

Waste collection is one of the most important public services in a town. However, waste collection has not been effectively implemented in some places due to the lack of economic and management resources. The waste is placed in inappropriate sites with the consequent risks of pollution and unhealthy conditions for the inhabitants. Therefore, establishing a municipal solid waste collection plan can be complicated. The methodologies and techniques that work in countries with medium and high income levels cannot be extrapolated to others with low income level because the boundary conditions are widely different. The aim of this paper is to design a municipal solid waste collection system adapted to this type of situation where not much money can be invested and where data are limited. In these cases, municipalities need to use their existing resources effectively. This paper offers a methodology for these cases as well as a case study. The first step was to gather information about the type and amount of waste generated and the characteristics of the town. The second step was to propose the location of the bins and, finally, the waste collection routes. With all these data, the technical and human resources were set. The methodology used was validated in a real case, the town of Nikki (Benin) in Africa. The collection of three waste fractions was designed with the actual resources of the city in order to offer a realistic implementation. Similar situations can be found around the world, and this case study can be used as an example to improve the waste management practices in some places with low resources.

scholarly journals COVID-19 as method

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 76-91
Author(s):  
Tridibesh Dey
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Political Ecology ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Solid Waste Management ◽  
Municipal Solid Waste Management ◽  
Waste Collection ◽  
Plastic Recycling ◽  
Binding Event ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Waste Management Practices

Events like the COVID-19 pandemic can become what Assa Doron and Robin Jeffrey have called ‘binding crises’: ‘events with the clarity and immediacy of a terrifying threat’ (2018: 12), impacting the rich and the poor, the powerful and the powerless – though unevenly. Binding crises of the past (like the 1842 Great Fire of Hamburg, the 1858 Great Stink in London and the 1896 Bombay plague) have led to ubiquitous reforms in sanitation and waste management practices, most notably landmark innovations in modern sewerage systems. In what follows, I draw on ethnographic research, conducted discontinuously over five years (2015–2019), around municipal solid waste management (MSWM), and the political ecology of informal plastic recycling in the city of Ahmedabad, India.1 I argue that the current pandemic may constitute such a binding event as freelance waste-collection networks are paralysed by the lockdown and ‘authorised’ modes of waste collection are prioritised, leading to a novel ‘infrastructuring’ of emerging relations between human bodies and wasted things.

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