Solid Waste Management and Recycling

192 ANNE M. KARANJA, MOSES M. IKIARA, THEO C. DAVIES Assessment of the socio-economic, public health and environmental dimension ...

TRADE AND RECYCLING OF URBAN INORGANIC SOLID WASTE IN NAIROBI 193 Using a crude estimate of 2,000 pickers and average amounts se ...

194 ANNE M. KARANJA, MOSES M. IKIARA, THEO C. DAVIES insecurity especially in this era of mass retrenchment hinders any sort of ...

PART III: REUSE OF URBAN ORGANIC SOLID WASTE ...

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CHRISTINE FUREDY CHAPTER 9 URBAN ORGANIC SOLID WASTE: REUSE PRACTICES AND ISSUES FOR SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT IN DEVELOPING COUNTR ...

198 CHRISTINE FUREDY (see Blumenthal et al., 1989, 2001; Khouri et al., 1994). This approach has not yet been applied, however, ...

RE-USE PRACTICES AND ISSUES IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES 199 It is usual now to find that policy recommendations for municipal solid ...

200 CHRISTINE FUREDY addition, those interested in aiding small farmers and livestock keepers view urban organics as recoverable ...

RE-USE PRACTICES AND ISSUES IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES 201 Type and origin of wastes, or site Materials included Reuse and diversio ...

202 CHRISTINE FUREDY Most, but not all, recovery and reuse is ‘informal’ and long-standing, or ‘customary.’ (Fertilizer and feed ...

RE-USE PRACTICES AND ISSUES IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES 203 One type of reuse that has received particular attention in the Hyderaba ...

204 CHRISTINE FUREDY dumps. Even with high levels of informal reuse, however, substantial amounts of organics remain in the muni ...

RE-USE PRACTICES AND ISSUES IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES 205 ment subsidies, e.g. the autonomous Karnataka Compost Development Corpor ...

206 CHRISTINE FUREDY Vermicomposting Compost composed largely of worm castings from worms fed organic wastes has a greater ferti ...

RE-USE PRACTICES AND ISSUES IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES 207 ‘Compost credits’: International agency support for composting The Globa ...

208 CHRISTINE FUREDY 9.5. HEALTH ISSUES IN ORGANIC WASTE REUSE Because the reuse of urban organic wastes is so varied and is lar ...

RE-USE PRACTICES AND ISSUES IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES 209 urban wastes in the U.K. Natural Resources Systems Programme in Kumasi, ...

210 CHRISTINE FUREDY The most important development in the institutional context to support sustainable reuse of organic wastes ...

RE-USE PRACTICES AND ISSUES IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES 211 mixed in household, institutional and shop wastes. To render these less ...