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Urban Waste Series 4, Working Paper - This document describes how used motor oil, household batteries and photographic materials are recovered and reprocessed by informal small-scale enterprises. Occupational health and environmental conditions are discussed and a (theoretical) approach as to how these could be improved is presented.

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A report on how to handle wastewater from hospitals and health care centres.

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This Case study on Healthcare Waste Management in Karachi, Pakistan, is a revisit of an earlier study done on this topic in 1997.

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UWEP Working Document 8

This report draws on research in Bogota, Colombia; Hanoi, Vietnam; Karachi, Pakistan; and Manila, the Philippines. It looks at the procedures used for the segregation, storage, collection, disposal and recycling of healthcare waste. Focussing on the role of micro and small enterprises (MSEs) it makes recommendations on how health care waste management can be improved.

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The objective of this research was to examine, analyse and document the existing health care waste management system in the city of Karachi, Pakistan. The basic aim was to provide information regarding the actual establishment of an economic and environmental sound basis for small enterprises to participate in the handling of health care waste.

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Two case studies in Metro Manila

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Onderzoek naar de kansen voor ecologische sanitatie in het buitengebied van de gemeente Gouda

A thesis in Dutch on the feasibility of Ecological Sanitation application in a planned urban neighbourhood of Gouda.

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Solid waste management (SWM) in developing countries has traditionally focused on organisational and technical concerns. However, this approach neglects the many activities and actors that waste management comprises.

This document is published by CREED. The programme of Collaborative Research in the Economics of Environment and Development (CREED) was established in 1993 as a joint initiative of the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), London, and the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), Amsterdam.

The Secretariat for CREED is based at IIED in London. A Steering Committee is responsible for overall management and coordination of the CREED Programme.

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Experiences from the Urban Waste Expertise Programme (1995-2001): ISWM - the Concept, Micro- and Small Enterprises, Financial and Economic Issues, Community Partnerships, The Organic Waste Flow

This series on Integrated Sustainable Waste Management (ISWM) is designed to give municipal managers and decision-makers a set of tools for managing their waste problems. ISWM is designed to avoid an exclusively technological approach by also considering environmental, socio-cultural, institutional, political and legal aspects of SWM planning and implementation.

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