Sustainable Waste Management: Policies and Case Studies

1. Front Matter

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2. Preliminary Comparison Among Recycling Rates for Developed and Developing Countries: The Case of India, Israel, Italy and USA

   • Francesco Di Maria, Ronald L. Mersky, Shira Daskal, Ofira Ayalon, Sadhan K. Ghosh

   Pages 1-13

3. Exploring the Rationale Between ERP and EPR in Asian Countries Using Cloud-Based Approach

   • Ipsita Saha, Amit Kundu, Sadhan Kumar Ghosh

   Pages 15-25

4. Packaging Waste from E-Commerce: Consumers’ Awareness and Concern

   • K. Chueamuangphan, P. Kashyap, C. Visvanathan

   Pages 27-41

5. The Development of an Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) Mechanism for Waste Management in South Africa

   • A. S. Pillay

   Pages 43-52

6. Impact of Waste Management Practices of Indian Small and Medium-Sized Manufacturing Enterprises on Their Financial Performance

   • Debashree De, Prasanta Kumar Dey, Sadhan Kumar Ghosh, Raja P. Pappu

   Pages 53-65

7. From Victim to Change Agents—Children as Social Change Agents for Cleanliness and Hygiene

   • Padma Kant Jha, Yogesh Kumar Singh

   Pages 67-75

8. Decentralized Community-Led Solid Waste Management

   • R. Ambastha, S. Aich

   Pages 77-89

9. Local Governance for Sustainable Solid Waste Management: A Case Study of Chandigarh (Union Territory), India

   • Ramanjit Kaur Johal, Amanjot Kaur

   Pages 91-105

10. Private Sector Startups and Solid Waste Management in India: Their Emerging Role in Unburdening the Burden of Formal and Informal Workforce

    • Priyamvada Singh

    Pages 107-114

11. Community Participation and Waste Management

    • Natasha Kalra

    Pages 115-123

12. Developing the Circular Economy in South Africa: Challenges and Opportunities

    • Aifani C. Tahulela, Harry H. Ballard

    Pages 125-133

13. Study on Solid Waste Management System in Dindigul Corporation of Tamilnadu and Feasibility Analysis on Waste-to-Energy Projects

    • J. Askin Raj, A. Asif, S. Suhee Vimalesh, S. Kumaresan, V. Kirubakaran

    Pages 135-141

14. Composition Analysis of Major Organic Fractions of Municipal Solid Waste Generated from Chennai

    • V. Mozhiarasi, R. Raghul, C. J. Speier, P. M. Benish Rose, D. Weichgrebe, S. V. Srinivasan

    Pages 143-152

15. E-Current Status and Implementation of Waste Management

    • Sabbi Sivaramakrishna

    Pages 153-165

16. Evidence-Based Analysis of Patterns of Challenges in Solid Waste Management by Urban Local Bodies in India

    • Ablud Jayaram Amitha, Vellala Manoj

    Pages 167-181

17. Creating “Zero-Waste Campuses”

    • Nupur Tandon

    Pages 183-186

18. Integrated Solid Waste Management Under Japan International Co-operation Agency Project in Municipalities of West Bengal

    • Kakoli Banerjee, Subrata Kumar Ray, Sadhan Kumar Ghosh

    Pages 187-201

19. Dakshin Dilli Swachh Initiatives Limited: A Comprehensive Approach Towards Sustainable Waste Management

    • Siddhant Srivastava, Anil Gupta

    Pages 203-213

20. Decentralized Solid Waste Management—A Tool for Achieving the Benchmark for Successful Swachh Bharat Transformation at Institutional Level—A Case Study

    • M. Subha

    Pages 215-222

The book presents high-quality research papers from the Seventh International Conference on Solid Waste Management (IconSWM 2017), held at Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University, Hyderabad on December 15–17, 2017. The conference, an official side event of the high-level Intergovernmental Eighth Regional 3R Forum in Asia and the Pacific, aimed to generate scientific inputs into the policy consultation of the Forum co-organized by the UNCRD/UNDESA, MoEFCC India, MOUD India and MOEJ, Japan. Presenting research on solid waste management from more than 30 countries, the book is divided into three volumes and addresses various issues related to innovation and implementation in sustainable waste management, segregation, collection, transportation of waste, treatment technology, policy and strategies, energy recovery, life cycle analysis, climate change, research and business opportunities.

• Conference Proceedings
• IconSWM 2017
• IconSWM Proceedings
• Waste Management
• Waste-to-enegy
• Solid Waste Management
• Sustainable Development
• Land Fill Management
• Waste Utilization and Minimization

• Department of Mechanical Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India

  Sadhan Kumar Ghosh

Prof. Sadhan Kumar Ghosh, Professor & Former Head of the Mechanical Engineering Department and Founder Coordinator of the Centre for QMS at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, is a prominent figure in the field on Waste Management, Green Manufacturing & Green Factories. He served as the Director, CBWE, Ministry of Labour and Employment, Govt. of India and L&T Ltd. Prof. Ghosh is also the founder and Chairman of the IconSWM; President of the International Society of Waste Management, Air and Water; and chairman of the Indian Congress on Quality, Environment, Energy and Safety Management Systems (ICQESMS). In 2012 he was awarded a Distinguished Visiting Fellowship by the Royal Academy of Engineering, UK to work on 'Energy Recovery from Municipal Solid Waste'. More recently, he was tasked with the Horizon 2020 research project entitled “Bio-mimetic and phyto-technologies designed for low-cost purification and recycling of water - India H2O” (2018-22), which is funded by the European Union.


Prof. Ghosh is also an international expert affiliated with a) the United Nations Centre for Regional Development under the UN in 3R Forum (Adelaide, 2016); b) the Asian Productivity Organization (APO), Japan and China Productivity Council (CPC) on Green Manufacturing and Green Factories (Taiwan 2014, 2015, 2016); and c) a Research Project for GP for the BoP business in APO member countries in Asia (May 2016 - June 2017). His papers on waste management, namely on biowaste, e-wastes and MSW have received Excellence Awards in many countries.


In addition to holding two Indian patents and serving as a member of the editorial boards of several journals, he initiated the movement for worldwide Sustainable Waste Management with partners in many countries through the “Consortium of Researchers in International Collaboration” (CRIC). Prof. Ghosh has been Principal Investigator of more than 25 research projects, and has written ninebooks and more than 180 national and international articles and book chapters. He can be reached at: sadhankghosh9@gmail.com.

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