The document discusses sustainable waste management and its relationship to achieving UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It notes that proper waste management is important for realizing human rights and environmental sustainability. Integrated approaches involving public-private partnerships and community organizations can help advance waste management, particularly in developing areas, by improving health, the environment and local economies. Case studies show how partnerships and collaborative programs have supported more sustainable waste practices over time.
The document discusses sustainable waste management and its relationship to achieving UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It notes that proper waste management is important for realizing human rights and environmental sustainability. Integrated approaches involving public-private partnerships and community organizations can help advance waste management, particularly in developing areas, by improving health, the environment and local economies. Case studies show how partnerships and collaborative programs have supported more sustainable waste practices over time.
The document discusses sustainable waste management and its relationship to achieving UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It notes that proper waste management is important for realizing human rights and environmental sustainability. Integrated approaches involving public-private partnerships and community organizations can help advance waste management, particularly in developing areas, by improving health, the environment and local economies. Case studies show how partnerships and collaborative programs have supported more sustainable waste practices over time.
including energy, climate change, and sustainable consumption and production exposes emerging trade-offs in terms of infrastructure decision making, such as investments in sustainable infrastructure. The proper and sustainable waste management would lead to the effective realization of several human rights. The diversity and potential consequences of soil and groundwater pollution impacts, as well as the limited capacity in developing countries for addressing such impacts, render the establishment of the advanced waste management system as a key cross-cutting issue for achieving SDGs (Dermatas, 2017). Adshead et al. (2019) developed metrics for evaluating the performances of infrastructure-linked targets and combined them with a systems model that could quantify the infrastructure demands in the future so as to assess the investments and policies to meet such demands. They found that strategies of cross-sectoral infrastructure investments and policies with regard to energy, water, wastewater, and solid waste sectors were able to mobilize SDG targets by means of quantitative indicators to reveal their interdependent nature and address uncertainties. It is imperative to implement and promote sustainable services through key policy tools such as direct regulation, economic incentives, as well as social instruments (Rodić and Wilson, 2017). For example, a legal framework involving both public and private sectors, financial supports for the services, and collaborative projects with civil societies such as green groups and media are potential ways to resolve the waste management issues. In addition, the integration of private services (e.g., small-scale enterprises) into the official system with the collaboration of NGO or community-based organization (CBO) would bring about socioeconomic benefits and contribute to ecological sustainability, and enhance public health services (Baud et al., 2001). Such alliances would be more preferred in developing areas, where waste trade and recycling facilitates could contribute to a cleaner environment with reduced waste and enhanced recycling, an improved financial situation, and more employment. Another case study in Brazil also supported the approach of integrated public– private partnerships (PPPs) and a deliberative mode in order to realize sustainable solid waste management (Kruljac, 2012). The waste management collecting systems have been evolving through the history. For example, a “Waste Purchase” program was carried out in 1989 supplying basic waste collection to the designated area, when the citizens used to purchase the surplus food and exchange waste for locally grown food from the farmers. Similarly, the “Green Exchange” program was initiated in 1991, stimulating regularized form of such scenario and encouraging waste recycling among low-income neighborhoods. These programs have accelerated the formation of PPPs involving the economic sector as a facilitative approach, which is mediated by NGOs or other CBOs for sustainable waste management (Kruljac, 2012). The significance of integrated solid waste management was highlighted in a work on the Indian MSW management system, which compared different scenarios such as composting, anaerobic digestion, incineration, and landfilling (Pujara et al., 2019). Life cycle assessment (LCA) and waste-to-energy (WTE) practices are critical tools to realize environment and economic sustainability as well as to minimize the adverse impacts associated with MSW. To achieve the SDG goals of sustainable consumption and production, practical measures can be implemented, including public education, improvement of manufacture and business process, integr rove living qualities and prospects. The framework of 17 SDGs including energy, climate change, and sustainable consumption and production exposes emerging trade-offs in terms of infrastructure decision making, such as investments in sustainable infrastructure. The proper and sustainable waste management would lead to the effective realization of several human rights. The diversity and potential consequences of soil and groundwater pollution impacts, as well as the limited capacity in developing countries for addressing such impacts, render the establishment of the advanced waste management system as a key cross-cutting issue for achieving SDGs (Dermatas, 2017). Adshead et al. (2019) developed metrics for evaluating the performances of infrastructure-linked targets and combined them with a systems model that could quantify the infrastructure demands in the future so as to assess the investments and policies to meet such demands. They found that strategies of cross-sectoral infrastructure investments and policies with regard to energy, water, wastewater, and solid waste sectors were able to mobilize SDG targets by means of quantitative indicators to reveal their interdependent nature and address uncertainties. It is imperative to implement and promote sustainable services through key policy tools such as direct regulation, economic incentives, as well as social instruments (Rodić and Wilson, 2017). For example, a legal framework involving both public and private sectors, financial supports for the services, and collaborative projects with civil societies such as green groups and media are potential ways to resolve the waste management issues. In addition, the integration of private services (e.g., small-scale enterprises) into the official system with the collaboration of NGO or community-based organization (CBO) would bring about socioeconomic benefits and contribute to ecological sustainability, and enhance public health services (Baud et al., 2001). Such alliances would be more preferred in developing areas, where waste trade and recycling facilitates could contribute to a cleaner environment with reduced waste and enhanced recycling, an improved financial situation, and more employment. Another case study in Brazil also supported the approach of integrated public– private partnerships (PPPs) and a deliberative mode in order to realize sustainable solid waste management (Kruljac, 2012). The waste management collecting systems have been evolving through the history. For example, a “Waste Purchase” program was carried out in 1989 supplying basic waste collection to the designated area, when the citizens used to purchase the surplus food and exchange waste for locally grown food from the farmers. Similarly, the “Green Exchange” program was initiated in 1991, stimulating regularized form of such scenario and encouraging waste recycling among low-income neighborhoods. These programs have accelerated the formation of PPPs involving the economic sector as a facilitative approach, which is mediated by NGOs or other CBOs for sustainable waste management (Kruljac, 2012). The significance of integrated solid waste management was highlighted in a work on the Indian MSW management system, which compared different scenarios such as composting, anaerobic digestion, incineration, and landfilling (Pujara et al., 2019). Life cycle assessment (LCA) and waste-to-energy (WTE) practices are critical tools to realize environment and economic sustainability as well as to minimize the adverse impacts associated with MSW. To achieve the SDG goals of sustainable consumption and production, practical measures can be implemented, including public education, improvement of manufacture and business process, integr rove living qualities and prospects. The framework of 17 SDGs including energy, climate change, and sustainable consumption and production exposes emerging trade-offs in terms of infrastructure decision making, such as investments in sustainable infrastructure. The proper and sustainable waste management would lead to the effective realization of several human rights. The diversity and potential consequences of soil and groundwater pollution impacts, as well as the limited capacity in developing countries for addressing such impacts, render the establishment of the advanced waste management system as a key cross-cutting issue for achieving SDGs (Dermatas, 2017). Adshead et al. (2019) developed metrics for evaluating the performances of infrastructure-linked targets and combined them with a systems model that could quantify the infrastructure demands in the future so as to assess the investments and policies to meet such demands. They found that strategies of cross-sectoral infrastructure investments and policies with regard to energy, water, wastewater, and solid waste sectors were able to mobilize SDG targets by means of quantitative indicators to reveal their interdependent nature and address uncertainties. It is imperative to implement and promote sustainable services through key policy tools such as direct regulation, economic incentives, as well as social instruments (Rodić and Wilson, 2017). For example, a legal framework involving both public and private sectors, financial supports for the services, and collaborative projects with civil societies such as green groups and media are potential ways to resolve the waste management issues. In addition, the integration of private services (e.g., small-scale enterprises) into the official system with the collaboration of NGO or community-based organization (CBO) would bring about socioeconomic benefits and contribute to ecological sustainability, and enhance public health services (Baud et al., 2001). Such alliances would be more preferred in developing areas, where waste trade and recycling facilitates could contribute to a cleaner environment with reduced waste and enhanced recycling, an improved financial situation, and more employment. Another case study in Brazil also supported the approach of integrated public– private partnerships (PPPs) and a deliberative mode in order to realize sustainable solid waste management (Kruljac, 2012). The waste management collecting systems have been evolving through the history. For example, a “Waste Purchase” program was carried out in 1989 supplying basic waste collection to the designated area, when the citizens used to purchase the surplus food and exchange waste for locally grown food from the farmers. Similarly, the “Green Exchange” program was initiated in 1991, stimulating regularized form of such scenario and encouraging waste recycling among low-income neighborhoods. These programs have accelerated the formation of PPPs involving the economic sector as a facilitative approach, which is mediated by NGOs or other CBOs for sustainable waste management (Kruljac, 2012). The significance of integrated solid waste management was highlighted in a work on the Indian MSW management system, which compared different scenarios such as composting, anaerobic digestion, incineration, and landfilling (Pujara et al., 2019). Life cycle assessment (LCA) and waste-to-energy (WTE) practices are critical tools to realize environment and economic sustainability as well as to minimize the adverse impacts associated with MSW. To achieve the SDG goals of sustainable consumption and production, practical measures can be implemented, including public education, improvement of manufacture and business process, integr