Managing organic municipal waste
Practical Action
Sustainable Composting Ali, S.M. (Editor) and Rouse, J.R. 2004. Water, Engineering
and Development Centre - WEDC, Loughborough University, UK, 2004
Organic Waste – Options for Small-scale Resource Recovery, Urban Solid Waste
Series, Lardinois, I., and Klundert, A van de, TOOL / WASTE Consultants, 1993. The
focus of this book is on the recovery of urban organic waste, in developing countries,
through activities such as animal raising, composting, the production of biogas and
briquetting.
A guide to the development of on-site sanitation. Franceys, R., WHO 1992. Provides
in-depth technical information about the design, construction, operation and
maintenance of on-site sanitation facilities, with numerous practical design examples
Decentralised Composting for Cities of Low- and Middle-Income Countries. A Users'
Manual. Rothenberger, S., Zurbrugg, C., Enayettullah, I. and Sinha, M.A.H. 2006,
SANDEC and Waste Concern, Bangladesh.
Marketing Compost. A guide for compost producers in low and middle-income
countries. Rouse, J.R., Rothenberger, S., and Zurbrugg, C. 2008. SANDEC, (EAWAG)
Useful Websites
WASTE (a Dutch NGO) is doing a large amount of work on ecological sanitation.
Information can be found at www.ecosan.nl
A Swedish funded ecological sanitation research group provide a wide range of useful
information at www.ecosanres.org
The German international cooperation enterprise for sustainable development, GTZ,
provide a wealth of technical information at www.gtz.de/ecosan
Acknowledgements and organisations
Thanks to SANDEC for generously allowing the reproduction of text and images from their two
publications. These are available online from www.sandec.ch Waste Concern, Bangladesh
www.wasteconcern.org/
EAWAG: Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Überlandstrasse 133
P.O. Box 611
8600 Dübendorf
Switzerland
Tel: +41 (0)44 823 55 11
Fax: +41 (0)44 823 50 28
E-mail: info@eawag.ch
Web: http://www.eawag.ch/
WASTE Consultants
Nieuwehaven 201,
2801 VW Gouda, The Netherlands.
Tel: +31 (0)182 522 625
Fax: +31 (0)182 550313
E-mail: office@waste.nl
Web: http://www.waste.nl
Co-ordinators of the Urban Waste Expertise Programme (a programme with partners in Africa,
Asia and Latin America)
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