Table Of ContentSOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT
Policy and Planning for a
Sustainable Society
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SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT
Policy and Planning for a
Sustainable Society
Edited by
Elena Cristina Rada, PhD
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ABOUT THE EDITOR
ELENA CRISTINA RADA, PhD
Elena Cristina Rada, PhD, earned her master's degree in Environmental
Engineering from the Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania; she
received a PhD in Environmental Engineering and a second PhD in Power
Engineering from the University of Trento, Italy, and the Politehnica Uni-
versity of Bucharest. Her post-doc work was in Sanitary Engineering from
the University of Trento, Italy. She has been a professor in the Municipal
Solid Waste master’s program at Politehnica University of Bucharest, and
has served on the organizing committees of “Energy Valorization of Sew-
age Sludge,” an international conference held in Rovereto, Italy, and Ven-
ice 2010, an International Waste Working Group international conference.
She also teaches seminars in the bachelor, master, and doctorate modules
in the University of Trento and Padua and Politehnica University of Bu-
charest (master, doctorate, bachelor modules) and has managed university
funds at national and international level. Dr. Rada is a reviewer of inter-
national journals, a speaker at many international conferences, and the
author or co-author of about a hundred research papers. Her research inter-
ests are bio-mechanical municipal solid waste treatments, biological tech-
niques for biomass characterization, environmental and energy balances
regarding municipal solid waste, indoor and outdoor pollution (prevention
and remediation) and health, and innovative remediation techniques for
contaminated sites and streams.
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgment and How to Cite .............................................................ix
List of Contributors ....................................................................................xi
Introduction .............................................................................................xvii
Part I: Overview and Analysis
1. How High Efficiency Selective Collection Affects the Management of
Residual MSW ............................................................................................3
M. Ragazzi and E. C. Rada
2. Accounting for the Ecological Footprint of Materials in Consumer
Goods at the Urban Scale .........................................................................19
Meidad Kissinger, Cornelia Sussman, Jennie Moore, and William E. Rees
3. Advances on Waste Valorization: New Horizons for a More
Sustainable Society ...................................................................................37
Rick Arneil D. Arancon, Carol Sze Ki Lin, King Ming Chan, Tsz Him Kwan,
and Rafael Luque
Part II: Case Studies
4. Modeling Municipal Solid Waste Management in Africa:
Case Study of Matadi, the Democratic Republic of Congo ..................81
Gregory Yom Din and Emil Cohen
5. Solid Waste Management in Minna, North Central Nigeria:
Present Practices and Future Challenges .............................................103
Peter Aderemi Adeoye, Mohammed Abubakar Sadeeq, John Jiya Musa,
and Segun Emmanuel Adebayo
6. Management of Municipal Solid Waste in
One of the Galapagos Islands .....................................................................117
Marco Ragazzi, Riccardo Catellani, Elena Cristina Rada, Vincenzo Torretta,
and Xavier Salazar-Valenzuela
Part III: Strategies
7. Application of Bioremediation on Solid Waste Management:
A Review ......................................................................................................143
Tiwari Garima and S. P. Singh
viii Contents
8. Community Engagement and Environmental Life Cycle
Assessment of Kaikōura’s Biosolid Reuse Options..............................163
James E. McDevitt, Elisabeth (Lisa) R. Langer, and Alan C. Leckie
Part IV: Policy Planning for the Future
9. Policy Instruments Towards a Sustainable Waste Management........185
Göran Finnveden, Tomas Ekvall, Yevgeniya Arushanyan, Mattias Bisaillon,
Greger Henriksson, Ulrika Gunnarsson Östling, Maria Ljunggren Söderman,
Jenny Sahlin, Åsa Stenmarck, Johan Sundberg, Jan-Olov Sundqvist, Åsa Svenfelt,
Patrik Söderholm, Anna Björklund, Ola Eriksson, Tomas Forsfält, and Mona Guath
10. Framework for Low Carbon Precinct Design from a
Zero Waste Approach .............................................................................247
Queena K Qian, Steffen Lehmann, Atiq Uz Zaman, and John Devlin
Author Notes ....................................................................................................261
Index .................................................................................................................265
ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND
HOW TO CITE
The editor and publisher thank each of the authors who contributed to this
book. The chapters in this book were previously published elsewhere. To
cite the work contained in this book and to view the individual permis-
sions, please refer to the citation at the beginning of each chapter. Each
chapter was read individually and carefully selected by the editor; the re-
sult is a book that provides a multiperspective look at the ways in which
international policy and planning intersect with waste management. The
chapters included examine the following topics:
Part I: Overview and Analysis
• Chapter 1 indicates that the role of biological treatments should be limited
to the processing of organic fraction selectively collected.
• Chapter 2 highlights the relative sizes of ecological footprints among ma-
terials and indicates that cities monitoring and planning for reductions in
material consumption should be aware of both the quantity and ecological
impact per unit of individual materials.
• Chapter 3 points out that waste as a problem—as something not valuable—
needs to give way to a general societal awareness that waste is a valuable
resource.
•
Part II: Case Studies
• Chapter 4 presents the key elements for the best performance and profit-
ability of municipal solid-waste management in a low-income city.
• Chapter 5 analyzes some of the strengths and deficiencies in the current
multiple solid waste management system in Minna, a fast-growing city in
north central Nigeria, and proposes feasible solutions.
• Chapter 6 contains a study conducted on the solid-waste management sys-
tem on the island of Santa Cruz in the Galápagos Archipelago, Ecuador.
Part III: Strategies
• Chapter 7 reviews the salient features of methods of bioremediation, its
limitations, and recent developments in solid-waste management through
bioremediation.
