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Health impacts of waste plans:
analysing strategic waste management options (SWMOs)
Salim Vohra and Liz Green
Institute of Occupational Medicine and the Welsh Health Impact Assessment Support Unit
UKPHA Annual Public Health Forum Presentation 1
st
- 2
nd
April 2008
Overview
Strategic Waste Management Options(SWMOs)
Health impacts: the evidence
Health impacts of SWMOs
Health impacts of spatial location of facilities
Waste plans and planning
Waste planning:
is the identification and analysis of the waste disposal needs of apopulation at local, regional or national levels,
Its also about the development of a network of wastemanagement facilities, identifying suitable sites and theintegrated operation of waste facilities.
Waste plans are the written outcome of the waste planningprocess.
Waste plans and planning therefore identify and developdifferent strategic waste management options involvingdifferent combinations of waste treatment and managementtechnologies and where they might be located.
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