International Journal of Environment and Waste Management

Editor in Chief
Prof. Yung-Tse Hung
ISSN online
1478-9868
ISSN print
1478-9876
12 issues per year
Subscription price
Scopus
Impact factor (Clarivate Analytics) 2024
JIF 0.5
JCI 0.07
CiteScore
1.1 (2024)

Published Issues


Journal news

Getting waste off the menu

Efforts to combat food waste in university canteens have generally focused on what students leave on their plates. A study in the International Journal of Environment and Waste Management turns the tables on campus catering and suggests that there are opportunities for saving server-side too. Food waste is more than a logistical inconvenience, explain Boineelo Pearl Lefadola, Annemarie Viljoen, and Gerrie du Rand of University of Pretoria in South Africa. It is a growing problem feeding into climate change, resource depletion, and falling global food security. Unfortunately, many interventions in institutional settings remain reactive rather than proactive and tend to home in on the plate-scraping after the dining session is over rather than looking at improving efficiency in the kitchen and behind the serving hatch [...]

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Fly-tipping and flood risk

A study in the International Journal of Environment and Waste Management found a direct link between Ghana's mounting urban flooding challenges and unregulated waste disposal practices. The findings have significant consequences for public health, the real estate market, and broader urban development. The researchers focused on the cities of Kumasi and Tamale and found that open dumping, fly-tipping as it is known in some parts of the world, where households discard waste indiscriminately in streets, drains, and vacant lots, has become a serious problem associated with urban vulnerability. Four out of five households surveyed admitted to open dumping [...]

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