TY - GEN
T1 - Impacts of waste management practices on water resources in harare
AU - Nhubu, T.
AU - Mbohwa, Charles
AU - Muzenda, E.
AU - Patel, B.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Taylor & Francis Group, London, UK.
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Poor municipal solid waste (MSW) management practices impact negatively on freshwater availability in terms of both quality and quantity. A review on the MSW practices currently being practiced and their impacts on water resources management in Harare was carried out to give recommendations towards sustainable MSW management and reduce the pollution of water bodies. There is urgent need for the development and implementation of a local level integrated MSW management plan tapping from the national plan that was pronounced in 2014. Such a plan should incorporate material and energy recovery with the best option combining anaerobic digestion of biodegradable MSW and incineration of the non-biodegradable MSW fraction. Legislative reforms to enforce source separation, the prohibition of dumbing waste at dumpsites together with the landfilling of biodegradable waste need to be urgently institutionalized.
AB - Poor municipal solid waste (MSW) management practices impact negatively on freshwater availability in terms of both quality and quantity. A review on the MSW practices currently being practiced and their impacts on water resources management in Harare was carried out to give recommendations towards sustainable MSW management and reduce the pollution of water bodies. There is urgent need for the development and implementation of a local level integrated MSW management plan tapping from the national plan that was pronounced in 2014. Such a plan should incorporate material and energy recovery with the best option combining anaerobic digestion of biodegradable MSW and incineration of the non-biodegradable MSW fraction. Legislative reforms to enforce source separation, the prohibition of dumbing waste at dumpsites together with the landfilling of biodegradable waste need to be urgently institutionalized.
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U2 - 10.1201/9780429289798-84
DO - 10.1201/9780429289798-84
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85079685025
SN - 9780367257774
T3 - Wastes: Solutions, Treatments and Opportunities III - Selected papers from the 5th International Conference Wastes: Solutions, Treatments and Opportunities, 2019
SP - 531
EP - 536
BT - Wastes
A2 - Vilarinho, Cândida
A2 - Castro, Fernando
A2 - Gonçalves, Margarida
A2 - Fernando, Ana Luísa
PB - CRC Press/Balkema
T2 - 5th International Conference Wastes: Solutions, Treatments and Opportunities, 2019
Y2 - 4 September 2019 through 6 September 2019
ER -
