MWM-Chapter 11.indd (original) (raw)

2014

Abstract

World cities have, over the past several decades, been experiencing wide-ranging and sustained advances in production processes, as well as improvement in consumption and standards of living. Related to these developments has been the rise in population, giving rise in turn to new challenges. Among them is increased solid waste (SW) generation. The African continent, just like other developing continents, such as Latin America and Asia, has been greatly affected by rapid urban population growth, particularly during the nineteenth century, causing unprecedented demand on municipalities to provide services such as waste collection, transportation, treatment and disposal.1 These sentiments are echoed by various scholars, who posit that African cities have continued to experience rapid growth, both physical and demographic, which can be directly linked to modernisation and globalisation processes. This has placed many local authorities under immense pressure to provide an efficient and ...

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