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Re-engineering the city for sustainable solid waste resource management

Re-engineering the city for sustainable solid waste resource management
Re-engineering the city for sustainable solid waste resource management
This chapter reviews historic and current waste arisings then, drawing on work carried out under the EPSRC funded SUE waste consortium and the Defra New Technologies Demonstrator Programme for Biodegradable Waste, it assesses current options for waste management within the urban environment, based on the appropriateness of the technology and the scale. Recommendations are made regarding future strategies for urban waste management. The challenges to implementing such a strategy, including retrofitting to existing building stock, are then addressed.
233-252
Taylor & Francis
Watson, Geoff
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Powrie, William
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Dixon, Tim
Eames, Malcolm
Hunt, Miriam
Lannon, Simon
Watson, Geoff
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Powrie, William
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Dixon, Tim
Eames, Malcolm
Hunt, Miriam
Lannon, Simon

Watson, Geoff and Powrie, William (2014) Re-engineering the city for sustainable solid waste resource management. In, Dixon, Tim, Eames, Malcolm, Hunt, Miriam and Lannon, Simon (eds.) Urban Retrofitting for Sustainability: Mapping the Transition to 2050. 1st ed. London, UK. Taylor & Francis, pp. 233-252. (doi:10.4324/9781315850184).

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This chapter reviews historic and current waste arisings then, drawing on work carried out under the EPSRC funded SUE waste consortium and the Defra New Technologies Demonstrator Programme for Biodegradable Waste, it assesses current options for waste management within the urban environment, based on the appropriateness of the technology and the scale. Recommendations are made regarding future strategies for urban waste management. The challenges to implementing such a strategy, including retrofitting to existing building stock, are then addressed.

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Accepted/In Press date: 1 October 2013
e-pub ahead of print date: 27 January 2014
Additional Information: © 2014 selection and editorial material, Tim Dixon, Malcolm Eames, Miriam Hunt and Simon Lannon; individual chapters, the contributor
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Local EPrints ID: 442432
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/442432
DOI: doi:10.4324/9781315850184
PURE UUID: e4a68435-6b6c-4b92-8820-438f1e9b3a60
ORCID for Geoff Watson: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-3074-5196
ORCID for William Powrie: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-2271-0826

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Date deposited: 15 Jul 2020 16:31
Last modified: 06 Jun 2024 01:41

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Author: Geoff Watson ORCID iD
Author: William Powrie ORCID iD
Editor: Tim Dixon
Editor: Malcolm Eames
Editor: Miriam Hunt
Editor: Simon Lannon

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