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Title Resource Recovery and Reuse as an Incentive for a More Viable Sanitation Service Chain
ID_Doc 71688
Authors Rao, KC; Otoo, M; Drechsel, P; Hanjra, MA
Title Resource Recovery and Reuse as an Incentive for a More Viable Sanitation Service Chain
Year 2017
Published Water Alternatives-An Interdisciplinary Journal On Water Politics And Development, 10.0, 2
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Abstract Recovering nutrients, water and energy from domestic waste streams, including wastewater and faecal sludge, is slowly gaining momentum in low-income countries. Resource recovery and reuse (RRR) offers value beyond environmental benefits through cost recovery. An expected game changer in sanitation service provision is a business model where benefits accrued via RRR can support upstream sanitation services despite the multitude of private and public stakeholders involved from waste collection to treatment. This paper shows options of how resource recovery and reuse can be an incentive for the sustainable sanitation service chain, by recovering costs where revenue can feed back internally or using generated revenues from reuse to fill financial gaps across the service chain to complement other supporting mechanisms for making waste management more attractive.
Author Keywords Faecal sludge; resource recovery; business models; cost recovery; waste treatment
Index Keywords Index Keywords
Document Type Other
Open Access Open Access
Source Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED); Social Science Citation Index (SSCI)
EID WOS:000403232300017
WoS Category Environmental Studies; Water Resources
Research Area Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Water Resources
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