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Natural disasters and conflicts can often generate significant quantities of waste from both the actual event and the subsequent relief operations. These waste quantities and types are often complex and mixed, stretching the local and national waste management systems to collapse, resulting in piles of waste accumulating amid the affected communities' living areas. Accumulating waste is a significant risk to public health as diseases and vermin can spread and groundwater can be polluted.

To help communities and practitioners deal with these waste quantities, this book provides clear information on the risks of waste, guidance on how to deal with them, practical ways in which waste can be reused and recycled to the benefit of local communities as well as a step-by-step guide to setting up and implementing a disaster waste management programme. The book draws on actual projects implemented around the world for different types of disasters and conflicts, using international case studies to illustrate and reinforce aspects included.