- Wednesday, March 24, 2010
- Sustainable Waste Management in the Mediterranean Region: Impacts of Socio-economical and Political Factors
- Published at:11th MRM Meeting 2010 – WS n° 02
- Solid waste management is a key task of city councils and municipalities throughout the world in order to keep cities tidy and clean. Focus is often on the technologies such as collection, transportation, recycling, storage, and disposal of wastes. However, solid waste management must be seen in a much wider perspective that includes health to people and environment, conscious use of resources (materials and energy) and goods, as well as welfare and economic livelihood to business and people. Waste prevention, energy saving, reuse, recycling, and material and energy recovery, thereby, become concrete challenges to administrations, businesses and individuals in the urban areas. Up-to-date urban solid waste management demands a well designed mix of, for example, policy, administration, corporate social responsibility, business economy and motivation and education of the individual citizen. Successful implementation of such management of solid waste then becomes strongly dependent on the local and regional soc
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