Integrated Solid Waste Management for the Environmentally Sound and Sustainable Development

환경적으로 지속가능한 개발을 위한 폐기물의 통합적 관리 방안

  • Hong, Sang-Pyo (Dept. of Environmental Health, Seoul Health College) ;
  • Nam, Kie-Chang (Dept. of Environmental Engineering, Chongju University)
  • 홍상표 (서울보건대학 환경보건학과) ;
  • 남기창 (청주대학교 환경공학과)
  • Published : 2000.03.31

Abstract

The costs of solid waste management have continued to increase. Stricter environmental regulations have been applied to waste management units. Future integrated solid waste management should be balanced between source reduction, recycling, energy recovery, and land disposal. To achieve more balanced solid waste management programs, more local governments must adopt diversion and recycling goals and finance to meet those goals. The hierarchy of integrated solid waste management must be enforced in a manner that is flexible enough to allow local governments to implement waste management facilities that match the communities' ability to pay for them. In establishing a hierarchy of integrated solid waste management, local governements have difficulties in implementing source reduction and recycling because of a lack of local control and inability to pay for new facilities. Integrated solid waste management involves selecting compatible options for facilities to manage the collection, recovery of energy and materials(transformation), and disposal of solid wastes efficiently. Waste Collection, transformation, and disposal must support source reduction and recycling activities.

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