Project Working Paper #1: r4d Project: Challenges of Municipal Waste Management: Learning from Post-Crisis Initiatives in South Asia
The waste generation amount in Sri Lanka has increased from around 6,400 ton/day in 1999 (UNEP, 2001) to 10,786 ton/day since 2009 (NSWMSC, 2013). Among the nine provinces, the generation amount in the Western Province is the largest, accounting for 33% of the total generation amount in the country while that of the Uva Province occupies the smallest share (only 5%) of the country’s total waste generation As for amounts of collected waste, the amount of waste collected in the Western Province is also the biggest occupying 52% of the total collected waste in Sri Lanka and those of the Uva and the North-central provinces are the smallest accounting for only 3%. The waste collection rate in the Western Province, which includes the major metropolitan areas, is 51%, the highest among all the provinces.
Waste Of(f) Life 