short case study on waste management

This case study explores the background, challenges faced, solutions implemented, and key learnings from Indore’s successful waste management system. Indore, with a population of over 3.2 million people, generates around 1,100 metric tons of waste daily.

In a recently published report “Behavior change in solid waste management: A compendium of cases,” we assessed 30 case studies from different countries with a mix of income levels and geographies to explore how behavioral changes can vastly help improve waste management.

This case study examines the continuing work of community-based organizations and public interest lawyers to promote equitable and environmentally sound solutions to solid waste handling in New York City.

By employing this comprehensive research methodology, the study aims to provide valuable insights into the complex dynamics of solid waste management in urban Mumbai, contributing to evidence-based policy formulation and sustainable urban development practices.

To support cities in making smart investments to divert their waste into the circular economy, Delterra has defined six interdependent dimensions of a holistic integrated waste management system.

data-driven approach to waste collection and management; both as real-time feedback and long-term insights that can be derived from use-patterns and contextual data.

In order to comparatively analyse policy developments in enhanced waste management, three case studies were selected; San Francisco’s Zero Waste Program, Flanders’s Sustainable Materials Management Initiative and Japan’s Sound Material-Cycle Society Plan.

Abstract. Managing solid waste is one of the most significant challenges of the rural areas of all sizes, from the small towns and complete area villages, which are home to the mass of humanity. It is close to always in the top five of the most challenging problems for village oficers.

sustainable waste management into the city of Bangalore by utilizing case studies on residential waste management, and institutionalized waste management (and its flaws and benefits). Bangalore exists at the intersections of consumption, urbanization, and globalization.

This case study retraces plastic waste streams in the city of Pune, identifies contributions by informal economy workers to the recovery, sorting and recycling of plastic waste and provides policy insights that aim to harness the environmental benefits of a more inclusive and productive waste management model.