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Guidelines for General Waste in Emergencies
Oxfam’s Technical Briefs on Waste Management in Emergencies covering: Domestic and
Refugee Camp Waste, Composting and Re-cycling in emergencies, Large scale environmental
clean-up campaigns and hazardous wastes. Download at:
www.oxfam.org.uk/resources/papers
WEDC’s Emergency sanitation assessment and programme design which includes for Solid
Waste Management at:
http://wedc.lboro.ac.uk/publications/pdfs/es/es-insides.pdf
Humanitarian Reform’s Poster with do's and don'ts of waste management in disasters at:
http://www.humanitarianreform.org/
Camp Closure Household Waste
Environmental considerations of human displacement in Liberia. A guide for decision makers
and practitioners, UNEP (2006)
Dumpsite Upgrading and Closure
UNEP’s International Environmental Technology Center training modules on upgrading and
closing dumpsites available for download from IETC’s website at:
http://www.unep.or.jp/download/Session7_Hari.pdf
Disaster Building Waste Management Guidelines
Planning for Disaster Debris , US EPA (1995):
http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/non-hw/debris-new/index.htm
Integrated Waste Management Disaster Plan Guidance for local government on disaster debris
management (1997), California Intergrated Waste Management Board:
http://www.ciwmb.ca.gov/disaster/disasterplan/
Disaster Waste Management : C&D Waste, Filiz Baycan and Martin Petersen:
http://www.redr.org/WMinE/Filiz%20Baycan%20%20Martin%20Petersen%20ISWA%202002%
20Paper%20Disaster%20Waste%20Management.pdf
Training Manual : debris management in disaster recovery
http://www.stopwaste.org/docs/disaster_debris_management_training_manual.pdf
Wood Re-use and Re-cycling
A project to develop field guidelines for humanitarian workers on the procurement, logistics
and use of timber in emergencies (Jan 2008):
http://www.humanitariantimber.org/
Timber Scoping Study – A guide to the planning, use, procurement and logistics of timber as a
construction material in humanitarian relief, United Nations (2008):
http://www.humanitariantimber.org/files/download/TIMBER_Draft_1.0_Jan_08_A5.pdf
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Uses for recycled wood :
http://www.wrap.org.uk/manufacturing/info_by_material/wood/uses_for.html
Plasterboard Re-cycling
Online resources for recycling of plasterboard
http://www.drywallrecycling.com/
Plasterboard usage worldwide
http://www.marketresearch.com/product/display.asp?productid=1280217&g=1
Healthcare Waste Management
WHO – Management of solid health-care waste at primary health-care centres: A
decision-making guide. Available on:
http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/medicalwaste/hcwdmguide/en/index.htm
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The Secretariat of the Basel Convention - Technical Guidelines on the Environmentally
Sound Management of Biomedical and Healthcare Wastes. Available on:
http://www.healthcarewaste.org/en/documents.html?id=196
WHO - Assessment of small-scale incinerators for healthcare waste. Available on:
http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/medicalwaste/smallincinerators/en/index
.html
WHO - Guidelines for safe disposal of unwanted pharmaceuticals in and after emergencies.
Available on:
http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/medicalwaste/pharmaceuticals/en/index.
html
WHO - The Healthcare waste management rapid assessment tool
http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/medicalwaste/hcwmtool/en/index.html
The WHO Healthcare Waste Website provides other general information on handling of
healthcare waste. Available on:
http://www.healthcarewaste.com
Metals Re-cycling
European Confederation of Iron and Steel Industries
http://www.eurofer.org/index.php/eng/Issues-Positions/Environment/Recycling
Scrap metals recycling in the USA
http://scrap-metal-recycling.americanscrapmetal.com/
Global scrap metal trading place
http://www.scrapmetal.org/
Plastic Re-cycling
Types of plastic
http://www.wrap.org.uk/manufacturing/info_by_material/plastic/types_of_plastic.ht
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Uses for recycled plastic
http://www.wrap.org.uk/manufacturing/info_by_material/plastic/uses_for_1.html
Plastic recycling
http://www.recyclingexpert.co.uk/RecyclingPlastic.html
Other Links and Useful Websites
Disaster Waste Recovery homepage
http://www.disasterwaste.org
Proact Network homepage
www.proactnetwork.org
Waste & Resources Action Programme. Tips and suggestions for uses of recycled materials in
construction.
http://www.wrap.org.uk/construction/index.html
Swiss Resource Centre and Consultancies for Development
http://www.skat.ch/
International Solid Waste Association
http://www.iswa.org/web/guest/home
International Solid Waste Association – links to National Waste Plans
http://www.iswa.org/c/portal/layout?p_l_id=PUB.1.96
The International Society for the Environmental and Technical Implications of Construction
with Alternative Materials
http://www.iscowa.org/
Disaster Waste Management – Case Studies
United Nations Development Programme, Badan Rehabilitasi dan Rekonstruksi (BRR) NADNias, Government of Indonesia, Tsunami Recovery Waste Management Programme (TRWMP)
NAD-Nias (2005)
http://www.undp.or.id/tsunami/docs/ERTR%20Sub-ProDoc%20-%20Waste%20
Management .pdf
Disaster Waste Management Assessment – Tabasco – Republic of Mexico, Managed by SRSA /
DWR / PROACT, funded by SIDA (2008)
Disaster Waste Management Assessment – South Ossetia – Tskhinvali - Republic of Georgia,
DWR/ funded by UNEP (2008)
Pakistan Earthquake Disaster Waste Management Plan, Jon Godson UNEP/ Bill Townend
ISWA/Martin Bjerregaard WMinE), (2006)
Clearing up after the tsunami in Sri Lanka and Thailand, B.F.A. Basnayake,
Chart Chiemchaisri, Chettiyappan Visvanathan (2006)
http://www.waste-managementworld.com/display_article/273180/123/ARTCL/none/OWATS/1/Wastelands/
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MALDIVES Post-Tsunami Environmental Assessment, UNEP
http://postconflict.unep.ch/publications/dmb_maldives.pdf
Déchets post-catastrophe - risques sanitaires et environnementaux, Robin des Bois pour le
Groupe d’Expertise et d’Intervention DEchets - GEIDE post-catastrophe (2007)
http://www.robindesbois.org/GEIDE/Dechets%20Post-cata_GEIDE_sept07_v3.pdf
Hurricane Katrina Disaster Debris Management: Lessons Learned from State and Local
Governments, Briefing Report, Solid Waste Association of North America 2005
http://www.swana.org/pdf/swana_pdf_358.pdf
ERTR News Aceh-Nias Emergency Response and Transitional Recovery, Volume 1, July 2006,
Tsunami Waste: Job Creation and Recycled Products
Waste reduction : Recycling in Dhaka city, Sustainable Development Networking Program
(SDNP) (2005)
http://www.sdnpbd.org/sdi/international_days/wed/2005/bangladesh/waste/recycling.
htm
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