Due to potential environmental, resource and health problems associated with waste, wasteminimisation is a prioritised waste management strategy in many countries. Producerresponsibility policies promote waste minimisation by stipulating separate collection andrecycling of particular waste...

The provision of wholesome, affordable and safe drinking water that has the trust ofcustomers is the goal of the international water utility sector. Risk management, interms of protecting the public health from pathogenic and chemical hazards hasdriven and continues to drive developments within...

The policy analysis and management implications for achieving landfillequilibrium status within a sustainable timescale (decades rather thancenturies) are presented based on modelled results reported previously. Untilrelatively recently, timescale estimates suggested that equilibrium or...

Risk-based regulation has grown rapidly as a component of Government decision making, andas such, the need for an established evidence-based framework for decisions about risk hasbecome the new mantra. However, the process of brokering scientific evidence is poorlyunderstood and there is a need...

An existing materials flow model is adapted (using Excel™ and AMBER™ modelplatforms) to account for waste and hidden material flows within a domesticenvironment. Supported by national waste data, the implications of legislativechange, domestic resource depletion and waste technology advances...

The promotion of composting as an option for sustainable waste management hasraised concerns regarding public health impacts of exposures to potentially hazardous bioaerosols.Recent source term experiments show that bioaerosol emissions are episodic and that peakemissions are related to compost...

Risk management in the water utility sector is becoming increasingly explicit.However, due to the novelty and complexity of the discipline, utilities areencountering difficulties in defining and institutionalising their riskmanagement processes. In response, the authors have developed a sector...

Risk management in the water utility sector is fast becoming explicit. Here, wedescribe application of a capability model to benchmark the risk managementmaturity of eight water utilities from the UK, Australia and the USA. Ouranalysis codifies risk management practice and offers practical...

Access to safe and sufficient drinking water and adequate sanitation are now recognized as basic human rights. One Millennium Development Goal is to reduce by half the proportion of people without access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation by 2015. However, ensuring sustainability of...