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Municipal Solid Waste Management in Developing Countries

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École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Municipal Solid Waste Management in Developing Countries

1159 个评分

Have you come across large piles of garbage in neighborhoods and streets, or smelly waste disposal sites polluting the environment of low and middle income countries? Are you also convinced that improvements are necessary and do you want to know what kind of sustainable solutions are appropriate to better manage waste and enhance recycling and recovery? If yes, this course is for you! This course provides an overview of the municipal solid waste management situation in developing countries covering key elements of the waste management system, with its technical, environmental, social, financial and institutional aspects. Besides understanding the challenges you will learn about appropriate and already applied solutions through selected case studies. The course also covers strategic planning and policy issues discussing future visions for waste management and the aspect of a circular and green economy. Considering the importance of the organic waste fraction, the course covers several organic waste treatment technology options such as composting, anaerobic digestion, and some other innovative approaches. MOOC SERIES “SANITATION, WATER AND SOLID WASTE FOR DEVELOPMENT” This course is one of four in the series “Sanitation, Water and Solid Waste for Development". Please visit the course page for more information.

从本节课中

Week 1: Introduction to Solid Waste Management in Developing Countries

The course begins with an overview of the current waste situation in developing countries. We will introduce the Integrated Sustainable Waste Management (ISWM) framework that provides a general overview of SWM systems and will guide us though this course. The modules of this first week deal with the physical components of a SWM system. At the end of this week we expected you to understand the different steps in the municipal solid waste management chain, the key requirements for an appropriate management as well as the main challenges in developing countries. Real study case examples will be introduced to support the understanding.

与讲师见面

Dr. Christian Zurbrügg

Sanitation, Water and Solid Waste for Development / Eawag
Imanol Zabaleta

Sanitation, Water and Solid Waste for Development / Eawag
Félix Schmidt

Sanitary Engineering, Water and Waste Management / EPFL

What is gonna happen with this after I throw it away?

Do these pictures look familiar?

Piles of garbage in neighborhoods and streets,

or smelly, burning and polluting waste disposal-sites.

Unfortunately, this is a frequent situation

in low andd middle-income countries,

especially in towns and urban centers.

Do you want to understand the complex interaction

between stakeholders,

technical solutions

and governments?

And how this can contribute to improve municipal solid waste management?

Then, this course is for you.

Sandec is partnering with EPFL

to bring you a series of online courses.

This is the Sandec webpage,

for more information on the series

Sanitation, Water and Solid Waste for Development.

This course is dedicated to municipal solid waste management.

Hi, hola, bonjour!

I'm Chris Zurbrügg.

I'm a research scientist at Eawag, at the department Sandec.

I specialize in solid waste management in low and middle income countries.

I will conduct this course

together with me colleague Imanol Zabaleta.

In this course, we will cover the two dimensions

of solid waste management.

The first invovles understanding the physical components

of a municipal solid waste management service.

We will discuss aspects of the whole chain,

starting from generation of waste

to collection of waste,

treatment and disposal.

The second dimension analyzes the governace aspects;

these include the roles and responsabilities of stakeholders,

the financing mechanisms,

legislation and policies,

as well as socio-cultural aspects.

When analyzing the stakeholders,

we will present examples of non governamental organizations,

the informal sector,

private enterprises,

as well as different government agencies

or even the role of external funding agencies.

Throughout the course, we will be covering issues

around recycling and creating value from waste.

We shall put a special focus

on treatment options for biowaste

because in low and middle income countries

most often, more than half of the municipal waste

consists of biowaste,

in other words, waste which is biodegradable.

We will look at more conventional approaches,

such as composting,

but also, at vermicomposting, or anaerobic digestion.

What is the science behind these processes?

What kind of challenges do such projects face?

What are they a success or why did they fail?

Did you know that there are actually other innovative approaches

which are just in the phase of research,

or just recently being implemented to treat this biowaste?

For instance, producing protein from biowaste.

We will cover these and more issues

together with guess lectures,

who will present experiences from the field,

for instance Félix Schmidt, from CSD Consulting,

and Sanjay Gupta, a waste management expert,

working for SKAT Consulting.

How is municipal solid waste managed

in your neighborhood and city?

What do you observe? What do you contribute?

Why don't you share this with us?

We want you to actively participate in our course

by sharing your experience

and get involved in solid waste management.

We look forward to working with you!

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