Enhancing waste management strategies in Latin America under a holistic environmental assessment perspective: A review for policy support

M Margallo, K Ziegler-Rodriguez… - Science of the Total …, 2019 - Elsevier
Waste remains a serious environmental and human health hazard in develo** nations,
including those in Latin America and the Caribbean (LA&C). Despite important …

Mitigation of global greenhouse gas emissions from waste: conclusions and strategies from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth …

J Bogner, R Pipatti, S Hashimoto… - Waste Management …, 2008 - journals.sagepub.com
Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from post-consumer waste and wastewater are a small
contributor (about 3%) to total global anthropogenic GHG emissions. Emissions for 2004 …

Community participation in household solid waste reduction in Surabaya, Indonesia

Y Dhokhikah, Y Trihadiningrum, S Sunaryo - Resources, Conservation and …, 2015 - Elsevier
The goal of this study was to examine the community participation in household solid waste
(HSW) reduction and the influencing factors in eastern Surabaya. The research was …

Bioaccumulation of heavy metals in the black soldier fly, Hermetia illucens and effects on its life cycle

S Diener, C Zurbrügg… - Journal of insects as …, 2015 - wageningenacademic.com
In develo** countries, effective waste management strategies are constrained by high
collection costs and lack of adequate treatment and disposal options. The organic fraction in …

Effect of antibiotic use and composting on antibiotic resistance gene abundance and resistome risks of soils receiving manure-derived amendments

C Chen, CA Pankow, M Oh, LS Heath, L Zhang… - Environment …, 2019 - Elsevier
Manure-derived amendments are commonly applied to soil, raising questions about whether
antibiotic use in livestock could influence the soil resistome (collective antibiotic resistance …

State of municipal solid waste management in Delhi, the capital of India

V Talyan, RP Dahiya, TR Sreekrishnan - Waste management, 2008 - Elsevier
Delhi is the most densely populated and urbanized city of India. The annual growth rate in
population during the last decade (1991–2001) was 3.85%, almost double the national …

Insights into the management of food waste in develo** countries: with special reference to India

A Sahoo, A Dwivedi, P Madheshiya, U Kumar… - … Science and Pollution …, 2024 - Springer
Up to one third of the food that is purposely grown for human sustenance is wasted and
never consumed, with adverse consequences for the environment and socio-economic …

Composting as a sustainable waste management technique in develo** countries.

AM Taiwo - 2011 - cabidigitallibrary.org
Attaining sustainability in waste management requires an option that employs environmental
friendliness. Such a technique must be effective, efficient and less costly than many options …

Towards the circular nitrogen economy–A global meta-analysis of composting technologies reveals much potential for mitigating nitrogen losses

S Zhao, S Schmidt, W Qin, J Li, G Li, W Zhang - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
Composting is an important technology to treat biowastes and recycle nutrients, but incurs
nitrogen (N) losses that lower the value of the final products and cause pollution …

Cities and agriculture

H De Zeeuw, P Drechsel - Develo** resilient urban food …, 2015 - api.taylorfrancis.com
Cities and Agriculture Page 1 Page 2 CITIES AND AGRICULTURE As people increasingly
migrate to urban settings and more than half of the world’s population now lives in cities, it is …