Planning Tools
Towards Sustainable Municipal Organic Waste Management in South Asia: A Guidebook for Policy Makers and Practitioners
This report was produced under the Australian Agency for International Development- supported regional technical assistance for the Development Partnership Program for South Asia. The primary objective of the technical assistance project was to...
Guidelines for Contracting Solid Waste Management Services to Micro Enterprises
This document is a tool-kit for the development of a solid waste management public pricvate partnership for Micro-Enterprises. It provides the guidelines for contracting Solid Waste Management Services to Micro Enterprises. It has been produced...
Waste Glass as a Construction Material
The weblink presents users' guidelines for byproducts and secondary use materials in pavement construction.
Implementation Guide for Small Business Recycling Cooperatives
Cooperatives can provide small businesses convenient and affordable access to recycling services. With support from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, under the President’s Climate Change Action Plan, the Northeast Recycling Council (NERC...
Decentralised Composting for Cities of Low and Middle Income Countries
The book Decentralised Composting for Cities of Low- and Middle-Income Countries - A User's Manual describes approaches and methods of composting on neighborhood level in small-and middle-scale plants. It considers issues of waste collection,...
Regional Recycling Backyard Composting Guide
The guide provides all the useful information needed for backyard composting. It has been published by the Regional Recycling Group of California.
The guide provides insights on the following issues:
The Essentials of Successful Composting...
Start a Business: Junkshop & Scrap Business
The Department of Trade and Industry, thought the Bureau of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise development, of the Philippines has published a series of guides for starting your own waste recovery business. Important information is provided with...
Start a Business: Vemi-Composting
The Department of Trade and Industry, thought the Bureau of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise development, of the Philippines has published a guide for starting your own vermi-compost business. Important information is provided with regards to:...
Guidance Pack: Private Sector Participation in Municipal Solid Waste Management
In preparing this Guidance Pack for the World Bank, Sandra Cointreau-Levine provides a framework and a set of tools to assist local authorities in deciding whether to engage the private sector in the delivery of municipal solid waste services. This...
Working with waste: Guideline on Waste Collection in High Density and Unserviced Areas
The Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism of South Africa has produced a very interesting document on waste collection guidelines in high-density and unserviced areas. The guide is easy to read, user-friendly and very illustrative.
