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  • Case Study: Finding Better Solutions for Municipal Solid Waste Management in a Semi Local Authority in Sri Lanka

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    Liyanage, Bandunee Champika
    Gurusinghe, Renuka
    Herat, Sunil
    Tateda, Masafumi
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Herat, Sunil S.
    Year published
    2015
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    Abstract
    This case study investigates better and sustainable waste management for a given area in Sri Lanka. A questionnaire and field surveys were performed in a small local authority adjacent to Colombo, the capital city. Composting for organic waste and incineration for non-compostable waste were found to be important treatment methods for solid-waste management. The reduction of solid waste is a critical process for sustainable management. Currently, people in the area do not have much interest in waste recycling to decrease the cost of solid-waste management. It was therefore concluded that raising people's awareness would play ...
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    This case study investigates better and sustainable waste management for a given area in Sri Lanka. A questionnaire and field surveys were performed in a small local authority adjacent to Colombo, the capital city. Composting for organic waste and incineration for non-compostable waste were found to be important treatment methods for solid-waste management. The reduction of solid waste is a critical process for sustainable management. Currently, people in the area do not have much interest in waste recycling to decrease the cost of solid-waste management. It was therefore concluded that raising people's awareness would play an important role in the reduction of solid waste. A suitable waste-management plan needs to be made for each community and area. The situation and conditions of every area is different, therefore each community needs to make an effort to find its own better and sustainable solid-waste management process.
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    Journal Title
    Open Journal of Civil Engineering
    Volume
    5
    Issue
    1
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.4236/ojce.2015.51007
    Copyright Statement
    © 2015 The authors and SciRes. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution International (CC BY) License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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    Environmental Engineering not elsewhere classified
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/69661
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