Research for sustainable waste management
Our series 'Letters during COVID-19 is an exchange of thoughts, a collection of digital letters exchanged among colleagues in lockdown and their thoughts about research and field work – from afar and within'. Our first letter in this exchange is from Pia in Europe.
Our series 'Letters during COVID-19 is an exchange of thoughts, a collection of digital letters exchanged among colleagues in lockdown and their thoughts about research and field work – from afar and within'. Our first letter in this exchange is from Pia in Europe.
Our series 'Letters during COVID-19 is an exchange of thoughts, a collection of digital letters exchanged among colleagues in lockdown and their thoughts about research and field work – from afar and within'.
Our series 'Letters during COVID-19 is an exchange of thoughts, a collection of digital letters exchanged among colleagues in lockdown and their thoughts about research and field work – from afar and within'. Our first letter in this exchange is from Pia in Europe.
Kadapa is the administrative centre of the district and has a population of 2 million. For the past 55 years, the Kadapa Municipal Corporation has been dumping municipal solid waste at the local which is spread in an area of 4.2 Hectares holding about 280,000 cubic metres of waste and this has created increasing environmental problems to the locality. Now, the dumpsite has been converted to leisure and children's parks for the local communities. The overarching environmental problems in that area have been solved and the atmosphere is now healthy. This can be taken as a model project in India.
As a researcher and a foreigner, certain waste management practices at Kirtipur Municipal Waste Management Centre in Nepal, and characteristics of their waste collection were useful for me especially when realising the how efficient and effective our local waste management process would be, if applied to Sri Lanka.
Waste mountains expand daily as consumerism increases and its bi-products accumulate in open dumping sites. Though catastrophes like collapsing garbage sites have occurred in recent times, the signals they convey often go unnoticed or are addressed only with a temporary solution.
Dr Pia Hollenbach's field visit to Nepal in November 2019 to the Sisdole landfill site, Kirtipur Waste Management and Service Composting Unit and a Co-operative at Teku-12 formed by Informal Waste Workers.
Waste Of(f) Life 