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Mapping Household Waste Collection in an Urban Ward: Methods and Lessons

An internship project that set out to map how household waste is collected, sorted and transported in one urban ward, and what the process revealed about the system.

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Internship/Fellowship Report
Contents
  1. About this report
  2. Aims
  3. Methods
  4. What the report covers
  5. Reflections on method

About this report

This report was produced during a CRGD summer internship under the supervision of a research fellow. It is published as an example of the kind of practical, small scale research that interns carry out.

Aims

  1. To document the route that household waste takes from the doorstep to its final destination in one urban ward.
  2. To understand the roles of the people involved, from households to collection workers to the local government.
  3. To identify points in the system where improvements could be made at low cost.

Methods

  • Walking surveys of collection routes with the consent of collection workers
  • Short structured interviews with a sample of households
  • Interviews with collection workers, ward representatives and local government staff
  • Review of the local government’s published plans and budgets for waste management

What the report covers

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  • Where the system breaks down. [Placeholder.]
  • Recommendations to the ward and the local government. [Placeholder.]

Reflections on method

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About the authors

Intern Two

Research Intern

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Research Fellow Two

Research Fellow, Urbanisation and Mobility

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