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What should a sustainable waste management system look like? |
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Thursday, 29 July 2010 |
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If we were to design, from scratch, a sustainable waste management system for London suitable for the twenty first century, what would it look like? This is the topic of the first web-based ‘provocation’ launched by London REMADE. The starting point for the debate is a series of four essays, one of which was written by Professor David C Wilson. The format is truly participative - you can take part online simply by clicking ‘join the debate’ and adding your comment, amending what the original authors or other commentators have said or writing your own essay. |
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Live interview on Al Jazeera English news |
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Sunday, 25 July 2010 |
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Al Jazeera English News today ran a feature on the Zabbaleen, the informal waste recyclers in Cairo. After the video clip, Professor David C Wilson was interviewed live by videolink between the Doha and London studios, to discuss waste management in developing countries more generally. He highlighted the financial benefits that informal recyclers bring to a city, and argued for co-operative solutions - the city recognises the recyclers and works with them, to provide the recyclers with dignity, access to the waste and more hygienic working conditions,; and in turn benefits from more efficient recycling and thus less waste that the city needs to collect and dispose of.
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Special issue of Waste Management & Research on Waste Prevention |
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Friday, 12 March 2010 |
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Professor David C Wilson is guest editor of a special issue of the international journal Waste Management & Research on Waste Prevention, published in March 2010. The special issue features eight papers, including four derived from a major synthesis review of the available evidence on household waste prevention, carried out by Defra’s Waste and Resources Evidence Programme (WREP). Professor Wilson managed the review on behalf of WREP and is a co-author of each of the WMR papers. |
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