Waste Management in Developing Countries

This book presents state-of-the-art solid waste management in developing countries. It outlines the impact of poor solid waste management on human health and the environment and examines appropriate solid waste management technologies for the developing world. Contributions define waste recovery in a circular economy context and the informal sector's role, describe how sustainable and integrated solid waste management in developing countries contributes to reducing greenhouse gases and their effect on climate change, and analyze the financial and legislation aspects of solid waste management.

Waste Management in Developing Countries will be an essential reference for researchers, scientists, and students in waste management and environmental sciences, as well as waste management practitioners, policymakers, municipal officials, and related industry professionals.

Prof. Dr. Hassan El Bari has been a Professor at Ibn Tofail University-Morocco since 1988. He obtained a Ph.D. in Material Sciences from INPL (France) in 1987 and has a “Doctorat d’Etat” in Mechanical Engineering, University Mohamed V – Morocco, since 1998. Prof. Dr. El Bari is the President of the Moroccan Association of Solid Waste and was a member of the International Solid Waste Association (ISWA) from 2004-2014. He has been involved in many funded projects as coordinator and partner and has a long experience teaching solid waste management, biomass and bioenergy, and anaerobic digestion technology. He is an Associate Editor of the Cleaner Waste Systems Journal and a guest lecturer at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

Professor Cristina Trois is currently the NRF South African Research Chair in Waste and Climate Change (SARCHI) at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN). She is also a Full Professor in Environmental Engineering and the formerDean and Head of the School of Engineering. She holds an MScEng (summa cum laude) and a Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from the Department of Geo-Engineering and Environmental Technology of Cagliari University. Professor Trois is a C1-rated scientist with the National Research Foundation. Her main fields of expertise are environmental and geo-engineering, waste and climate change in sustainable cities, waste and resources management, control, management, and treatment of landfill emissions, renewable energy from waste, greenhouse gas control from zero waste in Africa and developing countries, and alternative building materials. She is the author of over 100 publications in high-impact journals and has successfully supervised more than 60 Ph.D. and Master’s students. Professor Trois is the Chair of the joint secretariat for the Southern Africa Region of the UN-IPLA Programme (International Partnership for Advancing Waste Management Services of Local Authorities) and the IWWG (International Waste Working Group) and a Fellow of the South African Academy of Engineers.