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The only thing publishable before field research is the method itself. That is what is here.
Sections
Field research
Notes and findings from missions, as they happen.
Case studies
Individual systems documented to a fixed template.
Reports
Country reports and cross-country comparisons.
White papers
Longer arguments drawing on multiple missions.
Data
Underlying datasets, with methodology attached.
India adaptation
What could transfer, and what the transfer would cost.
Case studies
Bank Sampah: community waste banks in Indonesia
Neighbourhood-level collection points where households deposit sorted recyclables and are credited for them, often through a savings account. Widely replicated internationally, with highly variable survival rates.
Integrated energy recovery and offshore ash disposal, Singapore
A national system in which almost all non-recycled municipal waste is incinerated with energy recovery, and the residual ash is landfilled on a purpose-built offshore site.
Informal material recovery alongside formal collection, Vietnam
An established trade of collectors, itinerant buyers and small aggregators recovering material in parallel with municipal collection, as formalisation policy arrives.