Evolution of municipal solid waste management in North America

Published in Waste Management & Research, two of SCS’s most experienced solid waste management experts, Dave Ross and James Law, cover the MSW evolution and forecast conditions and practices to expect in the next 40 years.

Additional Solid Waste Management Resources:

• ISWA: Protect Our Environment — Protect Our Environment and Controlling Climate Change The ISWA World Congress attracted 1,200 participants this year despite the pandemic and received major coverage in the news while heating up …
• SWEET Tracks Greenhouse Gas and Short-lived Climate Pollutant Emissions — Using the Solid Waste Emissions Estimation Tool (SWEET), in 2020, International Solid Waste Association’s (ISWA) Task Force on Closing Dumpsites completed a study of waste sector short-lived climate pollutants …
• Preventing and Reducing CO2 – Technical Resources, Issue 2 — Reducing CO2 is essential for our planet to thrive. At SCS, we’ve been helping all industries, cities, and states do just that for over 50 years. We focus …
• Sustainable Living Key to Tackling Climate Change — Tackling Climate Change: ISWA’s James Law of SCS Engineers explains how changing people’s mindsets and behaviors impacts climate change.
• Mini-review of waste sector greenhouse gas and short-lived climate pollutant emissions in Tyre Caza, Lebanon, using the Solid Waste Emissions Estimation Tool (‘SWEET’) — Find this paper online at Sage: Waste Management & Research 2022, Vol. 40(8) 1129–1142 In 2020, International Solid Waste Association’s (ISWA) Task Force on Closing Dumpsites completed a study of …
• Roadmap for Sustainable Waste Management in Developing Countries, ISWA, 2022 — The ISWA publication is now available online for hardcopy preordering or immediate download of the electronic version.