WASTE advisers on urban environment and development

WASTE works towards sustainable improvement of the urban poor's living conditions and the urban environment in general. Our multi-year, multi-country programmes and projects have a focus on bottom-up development in relation to recycling, solid waste management, ecological sanitation and knowledge sharing. WASTE, located in the Netherlands, teams up with organisations in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe that share its goals and approaches.


DocumentSolid Waste Management in the World’s Cities

On behalf of UN Habitat WASTE has written a book on solid waste management in cities around the world.

The production was made possible with the help of many waste experts around the world who did a research in 20 different cities around the world.

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ArticleAbout this site

On this site you can find information on:

  • Activities and vision of WASTE
  • Information on important themes in waste management
  • Information on sanitation
  • Information on approaches in waste management and sanitation
  • Downloadable publications of WASTE
  • Links of relevant websites
  • Discussion groups

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ArticleOther websites by WASTE

WASTE has other sites on more specific subjects

Logo ecosan
www.ecosan.nl
logo keysheets
www.wastekeysheets.net
human excreta index
www.thehumanexcretaindex.com

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ArticleProject Proposal

SANITATION and HEALTH INSURANCE

Objective: To enable 500,00 households in India to obtain loans for construction of sanitation facilities in order to improve their health situation.
Request: Grant financing to lower interest rates of sanitation loans.
Project description: WASTE together with the Indian insurance company TATA-AIG, the Dutch financial group SNS-REAAL and the Indian micro-credit organisation BISWA will introduce sanitation loans for villagers, and monitor effects of the loans through health insurance. TATA -AIG and BISWA have committed themselves to the project.

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