Sustainable Waste Management: Policies and Case Studies

1. Design and Development of Low-Cost Portable Household Composter

   • N. Shukla, S. M. Narulkar

   Pages 223-231

2. Contemporary Focuses on Integrated Solid Waste Management System Through Small-Scale Onsite Composting for Educational Institution

   • U. Indirapriyadharshini, R. Santhosh Kumar, S. Venkatesan

   Pages 233-246

3. An Evaluation of Waste Management for Energy Recovery for Bahrain

   • R. Blanchard, H. Albuflasa, I. Musa, T. Radu, M. Thomson

   Pages 247-261

4. Evaluation of Calorific of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW)

   • M. Jishkariani, N. Dvalishvili, L. Kurakhchishvili

   Pages 263-265

5. Waste to Energy—World Scenario: A Review

   • Mahendra Singh, G. Leena

   Pages 267-278

6. Implementation of Municipal Solid Waste Regulations in Israel

   • S. Daskal, O. Ayalon, M. Shechter

   Pages 279-290

7. Assessment of Heavy Metal Pollution to Soil Environment. A Case Study: Kieu Ky Landfill—Hanoi, Vietnam

   • Ha Ngoc Hoang, Thai Thi Kim Nguyen

   Pages 291-298

8. Solid Waste Management in Steel Industry—Challenges and Opportunities

   • Arindam Ghosh, Amit Kumar Ghosh

   Pages 299-307

9. Waste Management Challenges Due to Tourism in Hilly Areas in India: A Case Study of Chamundi Hills, Mysore

   • Biswajit Debnath, Anaya Ghosh, Madhu Kumar, Azhar Shariff, B. Manoj Kumar, Sadhan Kumar Ghosh

   Pages 309-320

10. Green Campus Initiative: Response from a Self-financed Educational Campus—A Case Study

    • Sucharita Bhattacharyya

    Pages 321-331

11. CAN-PACK Material Recovery Facility—A Case for Integrating Informal Recyclers

    • R. Juware, G. Mirashi-Shirsath

    Pages 333-346

12. Why is the Waste Sector Wasting Too Many Business Opportunities? A Case Study of Delhi, India

    • Anindita Roy Saha, Govind Singh

    Pages 347-356

13. Status of Waste Management in Sodepur Area: A Case Study

    • Ankita Das

    Pages 357-366

14. Evaluation of Existing Solid Waste Management System in Una Town, India

    • Disha Thakur, Rajiv Ganguly, Ashok Kumar Gupta, Veeresh Ghali

    Pages 367-381

15. A Multi-step Quick Scan for Options and Limitations of Biogenic Resources—From Agricultural Statistics to CNG tuk tuks in India

    • A. Brosowski, B. Sumfleth, T. Kussin, K. Schaubach, D. Thrän, M. Nelles et al.

    Pages 383-395

16. Invention of Waste Assimilator for Biodegradable Solid Waste Management and Organic Farming

    • Amarjyoti Kashyap, Ruli Borthakur

    Pages 397-402

17. An Analysis of Data Security and Potential Threat from IT Assets for Middle Card Players, Institutions and Individuals

    • Biswajit Debnath, Jaafar M. Alghazo, Ghanzafar Latif, Reshma Roychoudhuri, Sadhan Kumar Ghosh

    Pages 403-419

18. Assessing Livelihood and Employment Generation Opportunities in Metros Arising from Increasing Compliance with SWM Rules 2016—A Case of Bengaluru

    • R. Madhura

    Pages 421-430

19. Risk Assessment of E-Waste Recycling with a Focus on ISO 9000 Standard

    • Reshma Roychoudhuri, Biswajit Debnath

    Pages 431-440

20. A Detailed Assessment on the Flow of Mobile Phones as E-Waste in Coimbatore District

    • K. Yaazhmozhi, J. Senophiyah-Mary, Radhakrishnan Loganath, R. Balaji, N. Dhivya Priya, K. Nalini et al.

    Pages 441-452

The book presents high-quality research papers from the Seventh International Conference on Solid Waste Management (IconSWM 2017), held at Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University, Hyderabad on December 15–17, 2017. The conference, an official side event of the high-level Intergovernmental Eighth Regional 3R Forum in Asia and the Pacific, aimed to generate scientific inputs into the policy consultation of the Forum co-organized by the UNCRD/UNDESA, MoEFCC India, MOUD India and MOEJ, Japan. Presenting research on solid waste management from more than 30 countries, the book is divided into three volumes and addresses various issues related to innovation and implementation in sustainable waste management, segregation, collection, transportation of waste, treatment technology, policy and strategies, energy recovery, life cycle analysis, climate change, research and business opportunities.

• Conference Proceedings
• IconSWM 2017
• IconSWM Proceedings
• Waste Management
• Waste-to-enegy
• Solid Waste Management
• Sustainable Development
• Land Fill Management
• Waste Utilization and Minimization

• Department of Mechanical Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India

  Sadhan Kumar Ghosh

Prof. Sadhan Kumar Ghosh, Professor & Former Head of the Mechanical Engineering Department and Founder Coordinator of the Centre for QMS at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, is a prominent figure in the field on Waste Management, Green Manufacturing & Green Factories. He served as the Director, CBWE, Ministry of Labour and Employment, Govt. of India and L&T Ltd. Prof. Ghosh is also the founder and Chairman of the IconSWM; President of the International Society of Waste Management, Air and Water; and chairman of the Indian Congress on Quality, Environment, Energy and Safety Management Systems (ICQESMS). In 2012 he was awarded a Distinguished Visiting Fellowship by the Royal Academy of Engineering, UK to work on 'Energy Recovery from Municipal Solid Waste'. More recently, he was tasked with the Horizon 2020 research project entitled “Bio-mimetic and phyto-technologies designed for low-cost purification and recycling of water - India H2O” (2018-22), which is funded by the European Union.


Prof. Ghosh is also an international expert affiliated with a) the United Nations Centre for Regional Development under the UN in 3R Forum (Adelaide, 2016); b) the Asian Productivity Organization (APO), Japan and China Productivity Council (CPC) on Green Manufacturing and Green Factories (Taiwan 2014, 2015, 2016); and c) a Research Project for GP for the BoP business in APO member countries in Asia (May 2016 - June 2017). His papers on waste management, namely on biowaste, e-wastes and MSW have received Excellence Awards in many countries.


In addition to holding two Indian patents and serving as a member of the editorial boards of several journals, he initiated the movement for worldwide Sustainable Waste Management with partners in many countries through the “Consortium of Researchers in International Collaboration” (CRIC). Prof. Ghosh has been Principal Investigator of more than 25 research projects, and has written ninebooks and more than 180 national and international articles and book chapters. He can be reached at: sadhankghosh9@gmail.com.

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