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Status of Solid Waste Management in Myanmar: Key Challenges and Opportunities
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Author(s): Premakumara Jagath Dickella Gamaralalage (Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, Japan), Ohnmar May Tin Hlaing (Environmental Quality Management Co., Ltd, Myanmar), Aung Myint Maw (Yangon City Development Committee (YCDC), Myanmar)and Matthew Hengesbaugh (Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, Japan)
Copyright: 2020
Pages: 25
Source title:
Sustainable Waste Management Challenges in Developing Countries
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Agamuthu Pariatamby (Sunway University, Malaysia), Fauziah Shahul Hamid (University of Malaya, Malaysia)and Mehran Sanam Bhatti (University of Malaya, Malaysia)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-0198-6.ch009
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Abstract
Myanmar, the largest country in mainland Southeast Asia, has been facing considerable challenges with the management of solid waste in the recent past because of increasing income and consumption patterns, urban growth, and lack of effective waste management policies, treatment, and disposal methods. Waste management is also a crosscutting issue that touches on many aspects of social and economic development, and as such is widely associated with a range of global challenges including public health, climate change, poverty reduction, food security, resource efficiency, and sustainable production and consumption. This country chapter therefore presents an overview of the current waste management in Myanmar, discusses key challenges and opportunities, and identifies some policy recommendations towards its improvement.
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