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City Work plan Abidjan, Ivory Coast Actions: Future capture of methane at the Akouedo landfill, Organic waste management
City Work plan Accra, Ghana Actions: Landfill Gas Demonstration plant, Construction of a new sanitary landfill, Composting
City Work plan Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Actions: Complete SLCP Emissions Baseline, Improve Organic Waste Diversion, Improve Waste Collection Efficiency, Design, Construction, and Operation of New Transfer Stations, Safely Close the Open Dump Site and Operate and Manage a New Sanitary Landfill
City Letter of intent Aligarh, India Actions: A centralized composting plant with a capacity of 220 tons per day, Door-to-door waste segregation in a few areas of the city
City Work plan Amman, Jordan Actions: Implement LFG recovery and electricity generation, Construction of a clean materials recovery facility (MRF), Construction of a waste to energy plant for slaughterhouse wastes
City Action plan Barranquilla, Colombia Actions: Conversions of flaring operation in Los Pocitos landfill to a brick kiln (at the landfill site), Diversion of organic waste from households and large generators to mechanical biological treatment plant and composting facility
City Work plan Battambang, Cambodia Actions: + Promoting waste separation at source for utilization through public-private partnership, + Improving the final disposal site, + Integrating preservation of urban heritage and municipal solid waste management (MSWM), + Improving accountability of SLCPs emission from MSWM
City Mentor Boras, Sweden Actions: 711,450 tonnes of household waste were biologically treated in 2013 through anaerobic digestion or composting. Biological treatments stand for 16% of the treatment of household waste.
City Letter of intent Buenos Aires, Argentina Actions: Composting of organic waste from large generators, Home composting
City Work plan Cali, Colombia Actions: Implementation of alternative management and utilization of organic solid waste, Solid Waste NAMA
City Work plan Cebu, Philippines Actions: + Implementation of waste separation at source and collection, + Promotion of material recovery facility (MRF) and composting facility (medium and large-scale) for organic waste, + Improvement of the final disposal site (sanitary landfill) and prepare a long-term plan for achieving zero landfill status, + Build partnership for implementation of integrated solid waste management (ISWM) plan to achieve the SLCP emissions reductions
City Action plan Cotonou, Benin Actions: Capture of methane from the landfill (1st cell is closed), Pilot composting project
City Letter of intent Cuenca, Ecuador Actions: - Use of organic waste in a composting plant, - Landfill gas to Energy plat at the Pichacay landfill, - Recycling plan
City Action plan Curitiba, Brazil Actions: * Estações de Sustentabilidade: recyclables drop-off points in different neighborhoods, * Cambio Verde: program to exchange recyclables for fruits and vegetables, * Lixo que não é lixo: collection scheme for dry recyclables, Landfill gas energy project at the landfill
City Work plan Dhaka, Bangladesh Actions: Establishing SLCP baseline, Evaluating the prevalence of open burning, Improving organic diversion and composting, Improving landfill operations and maintenance, Optimizing waste collection routes and logistics
City Action plan Douala, Cameroon Actions: Elaboration of the Territorial Climate Plan of the City of Douala
City Letter of intent Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam Actions: Organic Waste Utilisation, Demonstartion project Source Separation
City Action plan Lomé, Togo Actions: Composting plant, Feasibility of an RDF (refuse derived fuel) plant
City Implementation plan Penang State, Malaysia Actions: Methane avoidance through organic waste diversion from landfill and dumpsites through food waste separation for composting and conversion to bio-soil enhancers
City Work plan Phitsanulok, Thailand Actions: + Mainstreaming 3Rs and community based waste management, + Improving waste collection efficiency and fuel use, + Increasing organic waste separation and processing for utilization, + Increasing utilization of post-MBT waste to achieve zero-waste landfill, + Promoting non-burning practices, + Generating biogas from leachate for energy use, + Improving accounting system of SLCP emissions from MSW management, + To be a learning center for SLCP emissions reduction from MSW in Thailand and Asia
City Work plan Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Actions: Optimization of collection routes, Increase rates of recycling paper and cardboard, Organics diversion from landfilling, Focus on use of methane for alternative fuels, Optimize leachate treatment and management
City Letter of intent San Cristobal, Dominican Republic Actions: Medium-scale implementation of the circular economy principle for recyclable and organic materials., Construction of a municipal composting plant, Feasibility and environmental studies to convert open dump into sanitary landfill
City Mentor San Diego, United States Actions: Zero waste objective 75% by 2020 and zero by 2040, Organics composting by city - 110,000 tons per year, Landfill methane to electricity to neigboring military air base
City Mentor San Francisco, United States Actions: Mentoring other cities to help them improve waste practices
City Action plan San Pedro, Ivory Coast Actions: Improvement of the garbage collection system, Construction of a sanitary landfill
City Letter of intent Santos, Brazil Actions: Increase diversion of recyclables from landfill, Deviation of organic waste from street markets to a composting facility and vermicomposters
City Implementation plan Sao Paulo, Brazil Actions: - Define the strategy for bio-waste diversion and help realise a pilot bio-waste treatment plant, - Enhance organic waste management in schools and enhance awareness of teachers and children, - Utilise public gardens and parks for green waste and organic waste from street markets for recycling and public education , - Managing source separation of organic fraction from household waste, - Diversion of the organic fraction from the commercial sector, - Enhance citizens' awareness towards recycling and separate collection, - Capacity building and knowledge transfer on organic waste management
City Letter of intent South Delhi, India Actions: Three bio-methanation plants (5TPD) for managing organic waste in decentralized manner., Three drum-composting plants (1TPD) for managing organic waste in decentralized manner., 200TPD organic windrow composting facility using segregated waste from residents
City Work plan Surabaya, Indonesia Actions: + Implementation of community-based SWM and 3R activities, + Improvement of temporary disposal sites into intermediate waste recycling facilities, + Promotion of composting for organic waste recycling, + Improvement of the final waste disposal site
City Letter of intent Varanasi, India Actions: Three bio-methanation plant for managing organic waste in decentralized manner., A centralized compost plant at Karsada
City Mentor Vienna, Austria Actions: Numerous strategies for waste prevention, Strategies for waste prevention in the food sector, Spreading awareness for sustainable waste management and waste prevention
City Implementation plan Viña del Mar, Chile Actions: Recycling and Composting, Waste NAMA, Methane Flaring
