INFO FROM THE WORLD
- Managing editor: Elena Cristina Rada
- Available online in Detritus - Volume 04 - December 2018
- Pages I-II
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Copyright: © 2018 CISA Publisher
Waste management raises concerns on environmental degradation and public health issues in the city of Nairobi, Kenya where a big share of the urban population still suffers from lack of adequate waste collection services. Governmental and international efforts have focused on implementing waste operations in middle- and high-income areas that fall short of providing informal settlements with equally efficient facilities (Figure 1). This results in increased rates of urban inequalities as well as places waste issues in the broader framework of environmental injustice and marginalization of the poor. In response to the current gaps, the emergence of spon.
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