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A new company in Kenya is turning all kinds of waste into all kinds of energy, saving both money and the environment. The new system is changing minds about what is "good" fuel, while the local economy is getting a boost from the alternate energies.
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An enterprising business has been recycling blood from a Maasai slaughterhouse to create biogas for cooking, thanks to business advice and financing from Kenya's Climate Innovation Center, an organization supported by the World Bank's infoDev. They even store the fuel in used tires, lessening the environmental impact of the operation. infoDev supports world-changing innovation by helping entrepreneurs with hands-on business coaching, access to early-stage financing and better entrepreneurship environments.
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For Judith in Tanzania, a load of manure is a wonderful thing. She got a loan to buy a couple of cows so she could create homemade biogas fuel to save money on expensive and polluting cooking fuels. Watch how her life has been transformed -- and learn why a program that encourages women to invest in sustainable energy is benefiting entire communities.
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Smart technologies can have a positive impact on all areas of a person’s life, from the moment they get up in the morning to their day at work and commute home. Looking at a day in a smart city we can see how technology can improve many aspects of people’s lives - from disposing of household waste efficiently to commuting to and from work in a safe secure environment. In addition to the environmental benefits of energy efficiency and reduced GHG emissions, smart cities also bring great social benefits – improving safety, comfort and quality of life. Experience a day in the life of a smart city commuter.
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In fast-growing cities the volume of solid waste being generated is very high and continuing to increase. However, when solid waste management (SWM) is well planned and implemented, it can provide energy resources capable of boosting green growth. A strong waste management policy set by government, together with regulatory instruments and public participation can create a successful solid waste management model that can generate value for citizens. Experience how effective solid waste management contributes to building greener, more sustainable and competitive cities, and to the creation of jobs and attractive urban spaces.
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EAP
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China, the world's largest producer of methane, has been capturing gas from household and farm waste to use as fuel. With World Bank help, it is refining and expanding its energy revolution.
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In East Asia, a staggering 11.7 million tonnes of plastic waste is produced a year—much of it ends up in our oceans. On Nov 2/3, join experts as they discuss what it takes to #BeatPlasticPollution.
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Plastics play a key role in our economy, but they have led to an unintentional crisis in our oceans. Eight million tons of plastic are dumped in the ocean each year. A new Multi-Donor Trust Fund supported by Norway, Denmark and the World Bank is tackling the issue in Indonesia.
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Murti earns a living as a scavenger in Jakarta to help her son go to school. She has received social assistance through cash transfers from the government, but mentioned that other social assistance programs need to be improved. Half of all Indonesians are highly vulnerable to shocks which can drive them into poverty. Recent World Bank assessments of social assistance programs try to help improve and expand them.
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In the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh, Thanin Chan and his team are using drone technology to monitor the trash that is polluting many of Cambodia’s most important waterways. The World Bank Group is working with more than 40 countries to reduce single-use plastic usage, prevent pollution and increase circularity.
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EAP
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Learn about tangible examples and innovative approaches to achieve inclusive green growth. Technical experts from Korea present on how they are leveraging knowledge and innovative technology to improve the environmental and agricultural sectors.
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In fast-growing cities, the volume of solid waste being generated is very high and continuing to increase. However, when solid waste management (SWM) is well planned and implemented, it can provide energy resources capable of boosting green growth. A strong waste management policy set by the government, together with regulatory instruments and public participation can create a successful solid waste management model that can generate value for citizens. Experience how effective solid waste management contributes to building greener, more sustainable and competitive cities, and to the creation of jobs and attractive urban spaces.
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EAP
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A modern sanitary landfill went into operation in Meicheng Town in late 2013. It provides nearly 200,000 people in seven towns and townships of Jiande City with solid waste disposal.
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Korea has learned valuable lessons applicable to sustainable economic development through its journey from a low-income country in the 1960s to one of the most dynamic emerging economies in the world. Korea positioned its program of resource management and climate change as an opportunity for green growth, and implemented innovative technology and institutional approaches in a phased approach. This 4-part video series aims to introduce Korea’s green growth macro policy, institutional operational policies and practices, and implementation approaches in the areas of solid waste management, urban regeneration, new town development, and emission trading scheme in order to help countries around the globe learn and share Republic of Korea’s practical green growth knowledge and experiences.
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For more on the garbage sorting issues in China, CGTN's Rachelle Akuffo spoke with Silpa Kaza. She is Urban Development Specialist in the World Bank's Social, Urban, Rural and Resilience Global Practice.
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Turning trash into electricity, money and tomatoes: Turkey is trying a new approach to waste management, in which not a scrap of waste goes to waste. At a former dump outside Ankara, managers look on other people's trash as a potential source of money.
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ECA
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A new solid waste management system set-up in Azerbaijan’s capital of Baku is the first of a kind in the South Caucasus. Supported by the World Bank’s Integrated Solid Waste Management Project, the new system improves disposal management, increases coverage of waste collection, and enhances waste-data information and financial management capacity in the Greater Baku area.
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The city of Grodno in Belarus has found a solution to solid waste by recycling. With the help from the World Bank, the city is reducing environmental pollution and bringing financial benefits.
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This is Europe’s largest unmanaged dump, located just 15 kilometers from the center of Belgrade, Serbia. After absorbing more than 10 million tons of waste over the last four decades, the landfill is closing for remediation. Serbia is constructing a new sanitary landfill, a waste-to-energy plant, and a modern facility that processes construction waste. Watch to learn more.
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Concerned with the massive environmental impact of its growing waste problem, the city of Belgrade asked IFC to design a public-private-partnership to build and manage a new waste-treatment and disposal complex—including a plant that will use waste to produce heat and electricity for the city.
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This is Europe’s largest unmanaged dump, located just 15 kilometers from the center of Belgrade, Serbia. After absorbing more than 10 million tons of waste over the last four decades, the landfill is closing for remediation. Serbia is constructing a new sanitary landfill, a waste-to-energy plant, and a modern facility that processes construction waste. Watch to learn more.
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The Vinča Landfill in Belgrade, Serbia, is one of Europe’s largest uncontrolled landfills. This is about to change. A new project by IFC will soon be changing it, by replacing it with a landmark waste-to-energy project in Belgrade and a new, sustainable waste-management complex to help reduce pollution and mitigate climate change.
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ECA
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Circular Economy in EU Member States
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Antione Santiago Criniere of Semillas y Raices discusses this project to implement an integrated and sustainable waste management program using beetles to collect organic waste and transform it into a highly enriched organic soil fertilizer.
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Keeping Port au Prince's water canals free of disease-spreading waste is a focus of a canal cleaning project underway in Haiti where the cholera endemic is claiming a mounting number of lives daily
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A landfill in Monterrey, in the North of Mexico, extracts the bio gas that is formed from decaying organic garbage to produce electricity. The project has already prevented the emission of about 1 million tons of CO2, which is equivalent to the emissions of about 186,000 cars. By doing this, the project generates carbon credits, which it then sells to the Danish Carbon Fund at the World Bank. With that money, they can maintain the modern technology in the landfill, and give solar panels to local schools.
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In Morocco, trash dumps are often in the middle of cities, posing dangers to public health. The country's government is now cleaning up the trash system, starting with a new solid waste plant. The landfill will be one of many that will generate electricity from methane and earn carbon credits.
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The Jenin Solid Waste Management scheme stands out as the most successful of the Bank's infrastructure initiatives in West Bank and Gaza. It offers important angles on the Bank's ability to contribute constructively in situations of conflict and requirements for effective institution building.
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The current refugee crisis in the Middle East is increasing pressure on the environment. Mayors from Jordan and Turkey visited Palestine to learn about the waste management of Al-Minya landfill in Bethlehem.
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The Jenin Solid Waste Management scheme stands out as the most successful of the Bank's infrastructure initiatives in West Bank and Gaza. It offers important angles on the Bank's ability to contribute constructively in situations of conflict and requirements for effective institution building.
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Aysar Yasin of The Palestinian Energy and Environmental Research Center speaks of his project to improve the conditions of oil producing farmers by exploiting the opportunity to use Olive Mill Solid Waste as a source of fuel.
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The Solid Waste Management program in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip will improve living conditions for the entire Palestinian population. The program serves 600,000 people in the Northern West Bank, 840,000 residents in the Southern West Bank, and will reach 750,000 residents of the Southern Gaza strip. It will introduce an environmentally-friendly approach, and create new jobs and business opportunities while reducing the financial burden on Palestinian municipalities.
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West Bank's first public-private partnership (PPP) helped meet the need for sanitary waste disposal. The new Al Menya landfill has significantly reduced illegal dumping. It provides improved services to approximately 840,000 citizens, and is expected to cut down greenhouse-gas emissions by 13,400 tons over the next few years.
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This news-style program on garbage disposal in Delhi, India, focuses on essential waste-management practices. The show highlights key issues, including the health threats that open dumps pose through air, surface water, and ground water pollution from biological pathogens and chemical pollutants. It also discusses how effective engineering practices can help cities minimize these health threats, which include typhoid fever, polio, diarrhea, gastroenteritis, and hepatitis.
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In rural areas of India, solid and liquid waste remains largely untreated and dumped in the open, posing a severe threat to public health and environment. Several working models of waste management in rural parts of the country have been successfully implemented not only at the household, but also at the institutional and community level. This video, produced by the World Bank Water and Sanitation Program in partnership with Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation, Government of India, shares these models, the selected technology options, and how they work.
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Almost half of Maldives’ population and more than 70 percent of its critical infrastructure lie within 100 meters of its shoreline. Yet, Maldives aims to achieve a more sustainable development model. To achieve its ambition, the country is taking steps to better manage its waste and reduce its use of chemicals by maintaining its pristine environment and protecting its groundwater.
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On August 14 this year, the Government of Pakistan celebrated two independence days: one commemorating the nation's freedom for 72 years. The other? Freedom from single-use plastic bags. Pakistan has joined 128 countries in the fight against plastic pollution, and it started with Islamabad's pilot project banning the use of plastic bags in the capital city. Moving towards environmental sustainability is one of the World Bank’s key commitments to the Government of Pakistan and to ourselves, and so we decided to walk the talk. For the past year, the World Bank Islamabad campus has been free of single-use plastic.
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This podcast will explore GPOBA’s Nepal Solid Waste project. GPOBA’s SWM project in Nepal was created to expand SWM services in five municipalities. This webinar will discuss how OBA approaches can jump-start SWM services in low-income countries where service delivery is poor or non-existent or where fee collection to support waste services is a major challenge. This webinar series introduces innovative financing mechanisms that contribute to development solutions, linking needs, objectives and actual results.
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Timed with the first International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste (FLW), this event will launch a set of new World Bank reports that propose a framework for better understanding policy options and trade-offs involved in tackling food loss and waste, and drill down on challenges and solutions in Guatemala, Nigeria, Rwanda, and Vietnam. New World Bank analysis finds that reducing food loss and waste could play a significant role in reducing the environmental footprint of food while boosting food and nutrition security.
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Evan Lutz is CEO of Hungry Harvest, an organization on a mission to end food waste and hunger. Can he beat the clock and explain how he thinks we could tackle this huge issue ? Better yet, will YOU be convinced?
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This new 10-minute film features some of the world's leading experts in urban development along with city leaders from around the world. It was produced by award-winning filmmaker Babar Ahmed, and focuses on solutions to the challenges that cities face today.
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Hope you have been enjoying our Global Voices, Spring Meetings 2019 series. Today we are joined by David Katz CEO of Plastic Bank who is going to tell us a little more about creating a value for plastic waste.
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Pay for Success in Solid Waste Management Results based Finance.
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Technical Deep Dive on Solid Waste Management, 21-24 Mar 2017
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Results-Based Financing Delivers Innovative Municipal Solid Waste Management Solutions - Pt. 1
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Results-Based Financing Delivers Innovative Municipal Solid Waste Management Solutions - Pt. 2
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Webinar organized by the World Bank's Global Partnership on Output-Based Aid (GPOBA) on the use of results-based financing for solid waste management projects.
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Solid waste poses a major development challenge for Tanzania, heightening flood risk and severely impacting quality of life for the urban poor. The Tanzania Urban Resilience Program has used innovative methods to collect critical data for local action to mitigate this risk.
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Developing country cities, already coping with burgeoning populations, scarce financial resources, and limited capacity to manage environmental issues, are facing a sharp rise in the amount and costs of garbage that they will be required to deal with by 2025. A new report from the World Bank’s Urban Development department estimates the amount of municipal solid waste (MSW) will rise from the current 1.3 billion tonnes per year to 2.2 billion tonnes per year by 2025. Much of the increase will come in rapidly growing cities in developing countries.
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Raymund Furrer, Head of Economic Cooperation and Development at SECO, speaks about working with IFC and others to transform waste to energy in Serbia.
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This Bite will illustrate how the World Bank works with local governments to evaluate technology options based on local financial and operational capacities. It will specifically provide examples of how Korea uses technology and innovation-based solutions to reduce the amount of waste generated while increasing recyclability.
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The What a Waste 2.0: A Global Snapshot of Solid Waste Management to 2050 report highlights that if we don’t manage waste properly, it can harm our health, our environment, and even our prosperity. Poorly managed waste is contaminating the world’s oceans, clogging drains, causing flooding, transmitting diseases, increasing respiratory problems from burning and harming animals that consume waste unknowingly, and affecting economic development such as through tourism. Without urgent action, these issues will only get worse. Here’s what everyone should likewise know.
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This Bite+ knowledge object provides an overview of the Tokyo Development Learning Center (TDLC)’s Technical Deep Dive on Solid Waste Management, which took place in Kitakyushu and Tokyo, Japan in March 2017. The Bite+ includes presentations on common challenges facing World Bank client countries in the realm of Solid Waste Management; overview of the World Bank Approach; and overview of Japan’s approach, including environmentally sustainable waste disposal, comprehensive waste collection, planning and inter-jurisdictional coordination, citizen engagement for proper source separation, and private sector engagement in Solid Waste Management.
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The Disruptive Technologies in Integrated Waste Management Bite+ will cover the following topics: Sudokwon Landfill Site; Management and Waste-to-Energy; Disrupting Soils & Non-point Source Pollution; and Integration of Novel Systems to Create Sustainability Loop.
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The Solid Waste Management KSB connects internal and external solid waste management experts with best practices and knowledge, enabling the World Bank to provide top advisory and technical services to clients.
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This event focuses on the need to address marine pollution and the speakers urge the audience to ‘reduce, reuse, recycle, refuse – and rethink” how they are using plastics. As Naturalist Sir David Attenborough lays out in dramatic, visual terms, “We wouldn’t dream of managing a bank in the way we manage our oceans. Dangerously eroding our capital and losing a far higher, guaranteed return of interest". Speakers conclude by saying that this issue should be tackled from all angles, from curbing plastic leakage at source to improving waste management and ensuring a circular economy approach.
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Knowledge Exchange on Solid Waste Management
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Innovative, Results-Based Financing for Solid Waste Management.
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