Solid Waste Policies and Strategies: Issues, Challenges and Case Studies [electronic resource] / edited by Sadhan Kumar Ghosh.

Chapter 1. Three 'R': An Effective Sustainable Waste Management Approach -- Chapter 2. To Study Information, Education and Communication (IEC) Campaign as a Tool to Spread Awareness in Understanding the Support of 3R Concept for Waste Minimization in Indore City as the Cleanest City of India -- Chapter 3. Pathways for Ganesha Idol Immersion Process: A Review of Best Practices by BBMP -- Chapter 4. Collapse of Natural Carcass Disposal System - Kolkata Rotten Meat Incidence: The Insight Study -- Chapter 5. Gender Transformative Planning for Urban Sanitation in India Paramita Datta Dey -- Chapter 6. Facilitating Sustainable Waste Management Strategies within the Hospital-An Explorative Study -- Chapter 7. Closing Access Loop: Situating Post-Infrastructural Assurance Circumstances -- Chapter 8. Framework for Auditing of Municipal Solid Waste Management System in India -- Chapter 9. Design of Capacity Building Strategy for Municipal Solid Waste Management (MSWM) for Andhra Pradesh - A Case Study -- Chapter 10. Experience of Swachh Bharat Mission with focus on Swachh Energy: An Experience in Silvarpatti Village of Dindigul District, Tamilnadu, India.

The book focuses on the challenges faced by urban areas in the context of handling waste in an environmentally and socially acceptable manner. It also discusses effective waste management approaches, which differ according to culture, climate, and socio-economic variables, as well as institutional volume. Presenting selected, high-quality papers from IconSWM 2018, the book explores a number of waste management methods with the help of case studies. .