Solid waste management in emergencies

WHO WEDC emergency notes has the list of tech guides available from WHO. One of the notes is about solid waste.
Many of their suggestions are the same as the ones I developed with rural northern Alaska Villages for interim solid waste management.

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Rural SWMP Solid Waste Management Planning

I’m trying to assemble what I have used when working with rural communities on their solid waste. I hope these materials will be useful to others. These materials may be modified to suit others. Unless otherwise noted, this Rural SWMP work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License

Of course, if you would like [...]

Rural SWMP Solid Waste Management Planning

I’m trying to assemble what I have used when working with rural communities on their solid waste. I hope these materials will be useful to others. These materials may be modified to suit others. Unless otherwise noted, this Rural SWMP work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License

Of course, if you would [...]

SWMP inspection transmittal letter

Telephone:
Fax:
DIVISION OF _______________
SOLID WASTE PROGRAM
File Number:
http://www.home.htm
DATE
[NAME, ADDRESS]
Re: City of NAME Municipal Solid Waste Facility Inspection of Month dd, 19nn
Dear Sir or Madam:
Thank you for assisting ____ and me with the inspection of the Council dump on [date]. A copy of the inspection checklist and photos is enclosed.
This year the facility rated a [23%] compliance [...]

Interim rural solid waste management IV

Suggested Steps that Might Be Taken Immediately, with Currently Available Resources, to Improve Solid Waste Management and to Alleviate Problems at the Dump
These suggestions for short-term initiatives are something new we’re trying out, in response to your suggestions and those of other Villages. If they don’t work or if you all come up with improvements, [...]

Interim rural solid waste management IIb

IIb
Captions to illustrations (fax)
Salvage Area—away from designated dumping areas; keep clear of trash
Cover material stockpile or backdirt, near designated working face
Trench—maybe 8-12 feet deep and 15-20 ft wide
active cell is as small as possible but wide enough for equipment to get in to compact trash, to consolidate into smallest space, and to cover.
Litter fence—
temporary, can [...]

Interim rural solid waste management II

Diagrams and annotated aerial photos, transferred by fax
Here are my crude and rude sketches as suggestions for immediate action at the dump. The overall idea is to use the signs and the physical grading (the trench, backdirt piles, cleared active cell) to welcome (and steer) people and thus their garbage to just one area for [...]