Solid Waste Management and Recycling

MARKETS,PARTNERSHIPS AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT 7

Recycling and reuse of inorganic waste

Collection, transportation and disposal

Reuse and composting organic waste

Activity

Actor

Activity

Actor

Activity

Actor

Separation at source

Selecting atcollectionpoints

Separationat source

Reuse

Recycling MarketingEnd use

Reuse

Energyrecovery End use

Buying andselling ofrecyclables

• Waste generators- Waste pickers- Waste generators- Waste generators- Waste pickers- Itinerant buyers- Dealers- Wholesalers- Enterprises producing-intermediate or-final products- Enterprises producing-intermediate or-final products- Shops- Shops- Enterprises using-waste materials-as input- Enterprises using-recyclables as-input- or

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• Waste generators- Municipalities- Private contractors- CBOs/NGOs- Householders- Municipalities- Private contractors- CBOs/NGUs- Municipalities- Private contractors(- Waste pickers )


• Municipal and-private collection crews- Farmers- Householders- Composting plants- Composting CBOs/NGOs- Householders- Private firms- Municipalities- Directly from-actors listed above- Shops- Livestock keepers- Horticulturalists- Park departments- Hotels- Householders

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Marketing

1 Bringing waste to collection points2 From collection points (dustbins, street- 2 containers, transfer stations) to final disposal site3 Not as part of the formal disposal procedure, 3 but for reasons of picking

4 Use of green waste and food waste for 4 animal feed; use of animal dung as manure; 4 application of mixed waste to field after 4 some sorting5 Usually on the basis of mixed waste

Primary collectionPrimary collectionand transporationSecondary collectionand transportation

Disposal

Composting

Figure 1.2. Actors and activities in solid waste management