8 February, 2009 | Waste Management
ISSOWAMA is a network for knowledge sharing, to promote the development and implementation of Integrated Sustainable Solid Waste Management in Asia. ISSOWAMA is funded by the European Commission as a coordination action under the 7th Framework Programme (FP7) and will run for 30 months. The 22 partner organisations met in Bangkok on 11-12 February 2009 for the kick-off meeting. Professor David C Wilson is participating in ISSOWAMA as an Associate of the Dutch not-for-profit foundation Waste.
ISSOWAMA seeks to improve the standards of solid waste management in Asia by promoting the concept of Integrated and Sustainable Waste Management (ISWM). The ISSOWAMA consortium includes 22 partner organisations from 8 Asian developing countries and 4 European countries, plus the International Soild Waste Association (ISWA), and will form the core of a wider expertise and knowledge sharing network. The concept https://samtech.edu/cheap-cialis/ of ISWM was first developed by the Collaborative Working Group on Waste Management in Low- and Middle- Income Countries (CWG) in 1996, and has been further developed, inter alia, by Waste for whom DCW is working as a member of the ISSOWAMA consortium.
8 January, 2009 | Waste Management
The London & Southern Counties Centre of CIWM hosted an Open Meeting on Progressing the Recycling & Reuse Agenda, at Imperial College, London on Wednesday 7th January 2009. The Open Meeting was built around five papers selected from the CIWM-Defra Masters support programme, showcasing the work of young professionals coming into the waste and resources sector.
The five papers in the Open meeting all present evidence relevant to policy making on recycling and reuse. They were chosen from 13 student projects funded by the CIWM-Defra Masters support programme in 2008, and 15 funded in 2007. An afternoon workshop introduced the 2009 programme, for proposals are due later in January. The programme is co-funded by Defra’s Waste and Resources Evidence Programme and CIWM, and administered by CIWM, and is aimed primarily to build research capacity and to bring new professionals into the waste and resources sector. Professor David C Wilson co-ordinates the programme on behalf of Defra and CIWM.
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Two of the papers report on case studies looking at the stimulation of recycling among SMEs. One presents evidence from across Europe on the interface between producer responsibility and local authority responsibility for wastes, and draws potential lessons for the UK. Another compares the lifecycle impacts of rechargeable versus disposable consumer (AA) batteries. By way of contrast, the final paper looks at the social implications of ship breaking in Bangladesh.
8 November, 2008 | Publication
One of DCW’s research interests at Imperial College is the contribution made to waste management in developing country cities by the often large informal recycling sector. This paper focuses on quantifying the contribution of the informal sector, and particularly that of the itinerant waste buyers who collect clean, source separated materials from door to door; and on how to build further on this solid foundation. The paper is published in the February 2009 volume of the journal Waste Management, and is available online.
Many developing country cities aspire to modern waste management systems, which are associated with relatively high recycling rates of clean, source separated materials. Most already have informal sector recycling systems, which are driven solely by the revenues derived from selling recovered materials, even though they are saving the formal sector money by reducing waste quantities. There is clear potential for ‘win-win’ co-operation between the formal and informal sectors, as providing support to the informal sector, to build recycling rates and to address some of the social issues could reduce the overall costs of waste management for the formal sector. This paper shows that recycling rates already achieved by the informal sector can be quite high, typically in the range from 20-50%; often up to half of this is in the form of clean, source separated materials collected directly from households and businesses by itinerant waste buyers (IWBs). Four country case studies provide a number of lessons on how this solid foundation could be used to build high recycling rates of clean materials. DCW’s co-authors are Dr Chris Cheeseman, also in the Centre for Environmental Control and Waste Management at Imperial; former MSc student Kaine Chinwah; and Adebisi Araba, his PhD student in the Centre for Environmental Policy at Imperial. The paper reference is doi:10.1016/j.wasman.2008.06.016; Waste Management, Volume 29, Issue 2, February 2009, pages 629-635.
8 September, 2008 | Waste Management
The Irish Environmental Protection Agency has published its National Hazardous Waste Management Plan 2008-2012. The plan is based on a report prepared by a team led by RPS Consulting Engineers, and including Cowi, the Clean Technology Centre and Prof David C Wilson.
The new Plan can be downloaded here. The primary objectives are to prevent and minimise hazardous waste and to manage, in an environmentally sound manner, hazardous waste that cannot be prevented. The Proposed Plan makes 30 recommendations for the prevention and improved management of hazardous waste in Ireland.A consultation ducument was previously made available in November 2007.
8 August, 2008 | Waste Management
The Africa Stockpiles Programme (ASP) is a 15 year, $250 million project to help African countries rid themselves of more than 500,000 tonnes of obsolete pesticides. The new guidelines provide advice to national decision makers on how to select the most appropriate disposal technology options for their country. The guidelines were prepared for WWF by an international team led by Patrick Dyke; Professor David C Wilson provided technical review within the team.
The ASP is a multi-stakeholder initiative, proposed in 2000 by WWF and the Pesticide Action Network (PAN), and responding to a request by African countries for assistance to deal with the accumulation of obsolete pesticide stockpiles across the continent. These decaying stockpiles include DDT, dieldrin and other Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) now subject to the Stockholm Convention, and pose serious threats to the health of both rural and urban populations, especially the poorest of the poor, and contribute to land and water degradation. The ASP is funded by the Global Environment Fund and other donors; the implementation committee comprises the World Bank, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), Crop Life International (representing the global pesticide industry) as well as the two original NGOs WWF and PAN. The Disposal Technology Options Study (DTO) was initiated to review developments in available treatment and disposal techniques for ASP wastes. The report provides information to help countries make informed decisions about the options for treatment and disposal of their obsolete pesticide stocks and associated wastes to ensure that they are treated and disposed of in an environmentally sound manner, protecting human health and the environment from adverse effects.
