TY - JOUR
T1 - Assessment of municipal solid waste management practices in Karachi City, Pakistan
AU - Khan, Wasi Z.
AU - Inglezakis, Vassilis
AU - Ishtiaque, Shagufta
AU - Moustakas, Konstantinos
N1 - Funding Information:
The research team would like to thank Professor George Stavrakakis and Mrs. Natalia Panagiotidou, Technical University of Crete, Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering (Greece) for their permission to make use of the DSS tool. The tool was developed by TUC in collaboration with Associate Professor Vassilis J. Inglezakis and other partners in the framework of the BALWASTE project, LIFE07ENV/RO/686, funded by the European Commission (2009-2011). The team is also thankful to Waqar Hussain Phulpoto, director (Technical), EPA, Sindh, Karachi, Pakistan, Dr. Noman Ahmed, Professor and Chairman, Department of Architecture and Planning, NED University of Engineering and Technology, City Campus, and Arif Hasan, Chairman, Urban Resource Centre, Karachi, for sharing of the data.
PY - 2019/1/1
Y1 - 2019/1/1
N2 - The data collected from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of Pakistan indicate that collection and disposal of municipal solid waste in the city of Karachi is underdeveloped. The studies conducted in 2012 showed the composition of solid waste is organics 47.2%, paper 15.9%, plastic 11.3%, bread 4.2%, bones 3.8%, metal 2.7%, glass 2.5%, textile 1.9%, wood 0.7%, and miscellaneous 9.8%. The city government collects only 48% of the total waste generated, of which 88% is disposed in dumping sites. This study aimed to assess the current practices of solid waste management in Karachi and suggests a quantitative approach to decision making obtained from decision support software (DSS) . The application of the DSS tool demonstrated that the landfilling of refuse-derived fuel/solid recovered fuel can be replaced by wasteto- energy options. The DSS tool can offer support for decision makers not only for planning process, but also for the assessment of adopted solutions.
AB - The data collected from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of Pakistan indicate that collection and disposal of municipal solid waste in the city of Karachi is underdeveloped. The studies conducted in 2012 showed the composition of solid waste is organics 47.2%, paper 15.9%, plastic 11.3%, bread 4.2%, bones 3.8%, metal 2.7%, glass 2.5%, textile 1.9%, wood 0.7%, and miscellaneous 9.8%. The city government collects only 48% of the total waste generated, of which 88% is disposed in dumping sites. This study aimed to assess the current practices of solid waste management in Karachi and suggests a quantitative approach to decision making obtained from decision support software (DSS) . The application of the DSS tool demonstrated that the landfilling of refuse-derived fuel/solid recovered fuel can be replaced by wasteto- energy options. The DSS tool can offer support for decision makers not only for planning process, but also for the assessment of adopted solutions.
KW - Decision support software
KW - DSS
KW - Karachi
KW - MSW
KW - Municipal solid waste
KW - Pakistan
KW - Waste management strategy
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U2 - 10.1504/IJEWM.2019.101281
DO - 10.1504/IJEWM.2019.101281
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85072994735
VL - 24
SP - 131
EP - 150
JO - International Journal of Environment and Waste Management
JF - International Journal of Environment and Waste Management
SN - 1478-9876
IS - 2
ER -