Municipal Solid Waste Management in Asia and the Pacific Islands

Sustainable Society and Municipal Solid Waste Management.- Sustainable 3R Practice in the Asia and Pacific Regions: The Challenges and Issues.- Formalization of Informal Recycling in Low-Income Countries.- 3R (Reduce, Reuse and Recycle) in Bangladesh.- Municipal Solid Waste Management in Cambodia.- Municipal Solid Waste Management in China.- Municipal Solid Waste Management in India.- Municipal Solid Waste Management in Indonesia.- Municipal Solid Waste Management in Japan.- Management of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) in Korea.- MSW Management in Malaysia: Changes for Sustainability.- Municipal Solid Waste Management in Nepal.- Solid Waste Management in Pacific Island Countries and Territories.- Municipal Solid Waste Management in the Philippines.- Solid Waste Management in Sri Lanka.- Municipal Solid Waste Management in Taiwan: From Solid Waste to Sustainable Material Management.- Municipal Solid Waste Management in Thailand: Challenges and Strategic Solution.- Municipal Solid Waste Management in Vietnam: Challenges and Solutions.

Prof. Agamuthu has authored more than 350 scientific publications and several books on Solid Waste. His research interests focus on landfill gas studies and bio-covers, waste characterization, municipal waste management, solidification/stabilization of hazardous wastes, biological treatment of waste, waste minimization and cleaner production, leachate studies and use for agro-irrigation, landfill remediation by chemical and biological methods, water and wastewater treatment, plastic biodegradation studies, Environmental Management Systems, Environmental Impact Assessment and waste management, Life Cycle Analysis in waste management, and value-addition of agricultural and industrial wastes for enzyme production, value-addition of agricultural wastes, material flow analysis (MFA), and bioremediation. Prof. Agamuthu has carried out more than 50 consultancy/advisory projects. Examples of organizations advised are EPI Environmental Plastics, Australia (2001), the University of the West Indies, Jamaica (2000), MBPJ (on-going to the present), Ministry of Housing and Local Government, Malaysia (2006 to the present) as the National Technical Advisory Board Member, and United Nations Environmental Programme (2007). He is a Senior Advisory Group Expert to Executive Secretary of Basel Convention, Geneva, and UNEP. He is also involved in International research collaboration with Austria, Japan, Denmark, Sweden, Germany etc., as in the Integrated Sustainable Solid Waste Management (ISSOWAMA) project involving 26 Asian countries with funding from EU, and the 3R Resources project involving six Asian countries with funding from IGES, Japan. Prof. Agamuthu is Associate Editor of Waste Management & Research Journal, Editor-in-Chief of the Malaysian Journal of Science and was a Senate Member of UM (2005 - 2007). Prof. Agamuthu is an Editorial Board Member of Journal of Material Cycles and Waste Management (Japan), Journal of Safety and Environment (China),reviewer for Journal of