Journal of Pollution Effects & Control
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Universidad Veracruzana, Centro de Ciencias de la Tierra. Francisco J. Moreno, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico

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• Research Article   
  A Successful Case in Waste Management in Developing Countries
  Author(s): Lorena De Medina-Salas*, Eduardo Castillo-González, Mario Rafael Giraldi-Díaz, Víctor Fernández-Rosales and Carlos Manuel Welsh Rodríguez
  
  Although most of the developing countries have serious problems with the issue of waste management, there have been some success stories including the development of environmental public policies, which had led to better life quality. In most developing countries, waste management considers only two stages: collection and final disposal. The collection system does not include a differentiated collection of the municipal solid waste (MSW), this implies that the valorization of the different waste fractions becomes more difficult to separate and most of them are dumped on uncontrolled sites. Meanwhile, the landfilled sites are limited and usually are about to exceed their capacity. In certain rural and semi-urban localities is common the practice of burning their waste, polluting the air, soil and even water. Local authorities are making some efforts to prevent this type of pollutio.. View More»
  DOI: 10.35248/2375-4397.20.8.242

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