Application of Life Cycle Framework for Municipal Solid Waste Management: a Circular Economy Perspective from Developing Countries.

ABSTRACT: Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) management has been a long-standing problem for many cities in developing countries. Urbanization, population growth, and excessive demand for resources caused significant waste related environmental and socio-economic problems in cities. Integration of policy decisions with actionable targets and management of economic and environmental extremes were common challenges to achieving sustainable waste management strategy. Circular economy is a concept that has been evolved with sustainable resource management perspective adopted in this study to support scientific decision-making process for urban planners and policymakers. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a framework to assess the environmental impacts of waste life cycle ranging from waste generation, transportati

SUBMITTER: Peiris MTOV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9360726 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature