According to a research article,” Constraints driven reverse logistics model for Plastic Solid Waste (PSW)”, (B. G. Mwanza, A. Telukdarie, C. Mbohwa) mentions that there is an increase of percentage of Plastic Solid Waste (PSW) in Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) over the years due to rapid population growth, urbanization, and economic growth.
The authors state that several studies were conducted to compare PWS’s recycling or management between the household or community level in terms of both developed or developing economies. Most items made of metal, glass, fiber and many other materials have been replaced by plastics due to the low cost and other beneficial assets. However, incorrect management of plastics will cause a massive negative effect on the environment.
Within developed economies, the reuse of plastic waste has received considerable attention relative to developing economically. Works on wasted reuse have focused on the application of technology such as models and tools as developed economies focus more on industrialized recycling activities. Also, it was mention that there is a “correlation of recycling with levers such as income, age, education, gender and consumption patterns.” In response to this statement, things are not as superficial as how people often think the main reason people do not recycle was simply lazy.
Secondly, in developing economies, plastic waste accounts for 8-11% of MSW composition and only 4% of the waste generated in Africa is recovered. Furthermore, unlike the developed economies, most recycling operation is carried out by the informal sector such as the Non-Governmental Organization (NGO). There is a limit to what NGOs can do to help as there is insufficient funding to travel around to educate the public that is supposedly the government sector’s job.
The government needs to step in to assist the entire recycling system, no matter how it is developed or developing economies as they can implement the system and allow the public to adopt it.
References
B. G. Mwanza, A. Telukdarie,
C. Mbohwa (2018, February 12). Constraints driven reverse logistics model for
Plastic Solid Waste (PSW). IEEE
Xplore Digital Library. Retrieved from https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8290055
Thank you, Mikaela, for sharing this summary of a conference paper. It has lots of useful info. However, since one of the requirements of our annotated summary assignment is to explain the connection between the info in the summary and one's own research project, there seems to be a few sentences missing. That section is the 'assess' and 'reflect' sections of the summary mentioned on the page we referenced when we dicussed this in class: https://researchguides.njit.edu/c.php?g=671638&p=4727422
ReplyDeleteThe other minor issue here is that you haven't followed the template suggested for this summary, which is different from the one in the previous assignment. You might remember the example I shared in class: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1zzddSbctpAPkq9D6aJEXph8Qwl9FVwue
In any case, I really appreciate your hard work. I'll give more specific feedback in class.
Thank you Professor Brad!
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