Open waste burning in Cameroonian cities: An environmental impact analysis

被引：14
作者：
Forbid G.T. [1 ]
Ghogomu J.N. [2 ]
Busch G. [1 ]
Frey R. [3 ]
机构：
[1] Chair of Waste Management, Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Process Engineering, Brandenburg University of Technology, 03013 Cottbus, Siemens-Halske-Ring 8
[2] Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Dschang, Dschang
[3] p. dokt. techn., Nauk/Staatl. Universitätsprofessor (C4), 03046 Cottbus, Konrad-Wachsmann-Allee 2
来源：
The Environmentalist | 2011年 / 31卷 / 3期
关键词：
Pollution control; Resource and energy recovery; Sustainability; Toxicology; Waste burning;
D O I：
10.1007/s10669-011-9330-0
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摘要：
Lack of technology and efficient management of solid waste coupled with poverty have motivated most developing countries to sort for cheap waste disposal methods with negative consequences on the environment. Open burning at waste dumps causes serious toxicological impacts. Most organic solid waste excluding plastics when burned cause considerably little environmental pollution. However, non-stoichiometric combustion of waste plastics produces significant amounts of various aliphatic and aromatic compounds, acidic gases, dust and smoke. These products pollute the air, water and soil generating significant health problems with related socioeconomic impacts on human, animals and plants. Some of these pollutants are toxic and/or carcinogenic, form acid-rain and influence climate change. Critical discourse and research on environmental toxicology resulting from air pollution with related health risk and impacts have been catalysed by the enactment of major environmental regulations and increased awareness. The new clean air act amendment of 1990 is estimated to require about $25billion annually for its implementation in the United States, indicating the gravity of the pollution problem. Understanding, controlling and mitigating the impacts of chemical pollution from multiple sources related to open burning of plastics is complex. This paper uses content analysis of relevant literature and field observations to analyse, evaluate and identify characteristic pollutants including their transmission potentials, sources and impacts on human health with the assessment, prevention and management of related risk. An affordable technology-based approach applied within a bottom-up management strategy to prevent and control pollution offers a sustainable solution underpinned by resource and energy recovery from waste. © 2011 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.
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