Assessing the Sustainability of Waste Management Using the Concept of ISWM

J. Anschütz, A. v.d. Klundert (2002)

This paper presents the concept of Integrated Sustainable Waste Management (ISWM)[1], in the context of assessing the sustainability of waste management alliances. ISWM differs from conventional approaches towards waste management by seeking stakeholder participation, by including waste prevention and resource recovery explicitly, by encouraging the analysis of interactions with other urban systems and by promoting an integration of different habitat scales (city, neighbourhood, household). ISWM can be used as a policy tool and as an assessment/analysis tool. In this paper the emphasis is on its use as an assessment/analysis tool. It is argued that ISWM can be used as an assessment/analysis tool for all aspects of the project cycle, especially for design/formulation, for monitoring and evaluation of a waste management project. Assessment of the sustainability of waste management means looking at waste management from three different angles: the perspective of stakeholders, waste system elements and sustainability aspects. The focus of this paper is on the perspective of stakeholders in waste management and the contribution to sustainability of the alliances between stakeholders. It is concluded that the assessment process is not easy, but can provide valuable information about alliances and provide a basis for comparison. Needs for future research to further develop the concept of ISWM as a tool for assessing the sustainability of waste management are indicated.

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