Department Sanitation, Water and Solid Waste for Development

1.3 Municipal waste generation and characterization

• Global Waste Management Outlook. United Nations Environment Programme. 2015 [15 MB]
• What a Waste. A Global Review of Solid Waste Management. 2012 [9 MB]
• Strategic Planning Guide for MSWMS-Step 2. ERM for World Bank-SDC [1 MB]

1.4 Waste collection and transport

• Collection of MSW in DC.UN HABITAT. 2010 [14 MB]

1.6 Recycling Municipal Waste

• Global Waste Management Outlook, UNEP (2015) [15 MB]
• Global recycling markets: plastic waste, ISWA (2014) [2 MB]
• Recovered paper market in 2012, Bureau of International Recycling. Paper Division (2014) [2 MB]
• World steel recycling in figures 2010 – 2014, Bureau of International Recycling. Ferrous Division (2015) [3 MB]

1.7 & 1.8 Waste disposal / Landfills

• Observations of Solid Waste Landfills in Developing Countries. World Bank. 1999 [236 KB]
• Decision Makers Guide to Solid Waste Landfills. World Bank [7 MB]
• The tragic case of dumpsites. ISWA. 2015 [6 MB]

• Decentralised Composting for Cities of Low- and Middle-Income Countries [4 MB]

2.1 Policies and legislation

• Guidelines for national Waste Management Strategies. UNEP. 2013 [4 MB]
• India SWM Rules 2000 [222 KB]
• India SWM Rules 2015 [733 KB]
• Minimum Requirements for Waste Disposal by Landfill. Department of Water Affairs and Forestry - South Africa. 1998 [4 MB]

2.2 The role of the public sector

• Compendium of good practices. Urban Solid Waste Management in Indian Cities. 2015 [4 MB]

2.3 The role of the private sector

• Guidance pack. Private sector participation in MSWM. SKAT. 2000 [4 MB]
• Micro and Small Enterprises in Integrated Sustainable Waste Management. Waste. 2001 [1,015 KB]
• Private Sector Involvement in Solid Waste -Summary. GIZ. 2005 [586 KB]
• Private Sector Involvement in Solid Waste. GIZ. 2005 [4 MB]

2.4 Integrating the informal sector

• Integrating the informal sector for improved waste management. Sanjay Gupta [369 KB]
• Recovering resources, creating opportunities. GIZ. 2011 [3 MB]
• The Economics of the Informal Sector. GIZ. 2010 [1 MB]

2.5 Role of community members

• Community-based solid waste management and water supply projects: problems and solutions compared. A survey of the literature, J. Anschütz (1996) [493 KB]

2.7 & 2.8 Financing Mechanisms

• Solid waste management, UNEP (2005) [5 MB]
• Global Waste Management Outlook, UNEP (2015) [15 MB]

2.11 Financial comparison of collection and transport systems

• Collection of municipal solid waste in developing countries [14 MB]

3.2 & 3.3 & 3.4 Modules about composting

• Decentralised Composting for Cities of Low- and Middle- Income Countries, Sandec (2006) [4 MB]
• The art and science of composting, Cooperband (2002) [405 KB]
• Supplementary material on Composting. I. Zabaleta [625 KB]

3.7 & 3.8 & 3.9 Modules about anaerobic digestion

• Anaerobic Digestion of Biowaste. Sandec. 2014 [4 MB]

3.10 Vermicomposting of Biowaste

• Manual of On-Farm Vermicomposting and Vermiculture.Organic Agriculture Centre of Canada [955 KB]
• Training Material on Composting and Vermicomposting. Ecosan & seecon [1 MB]
• Vermicompost, the story of organic gold. A review. Sujit Adhikary. 2012 [208 KB]

3.11 Biowaste Processing with Black Soldier Fly (BSF) Larvae

• Black Soldier Fly Biowaste Processing - A Step by Step Guide [29 MB]

3.12 Thermochemical conversion of biomass

• Carbonizing urban biowaste for low-cost char production in developing countries [3 MB]

3.16 & 3.17 Dimensioning and construction a fixed dome anaerobic reactor

• Gas tightness testing of the piping system [306 KB]

4.2 Mixed waste treatment

• MSW Incineration -Technical Guidance Report. World Bank. 1999 [3 MB]
• MSW Incineration. A Decision Makers Guide. World Bank. 2000 [657 KB]

4.3 Hazardous waste

• Global Waste Management Outlook. United Nations Environment Programme [15 MB]

5.1 Integrating biowaste management through strategic planning

• Solid Waste Management in the World's Cities. UN Habitat. 2010 [12 MB]