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Municipal solid waste disposal at landfill in Phnom Penh (Source: Ministry of Environment Cambodia, 2018) Municipal solid waste disposal at landfill in Phnom Penh (Source: Ministry of Environment Cambodia, 2018)
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Phnom Penh is facing huge challenges in waste management due to population growth, increasing income and consumption levels, expanding urbanisation and inadequate waste management due to lack of proper waste collection and treatment facilities, technical staff as well as unclear responsibilities among staff members. In this regard, with the request...
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... is a substantial gap between the annual amount of waste before 2002 when Stoeng Mean Chey landfill site was in use, and the amount after 2003 using the new landfill site. However, as Figure 9 shows, the amount of municipal solid waste disposal has increased over the years. In 2017, the waste disposal amount at the landfill was about 808,530 tonnes per year. ...
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