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132 3R Gap Analysis and Findings RECOMMENDATIONS The current practices in all the countries studied, in one way or the other, are left with insufficient technologies. This can be attributed to two possible reasons: appropriate enforcing policies and better management systems to have control over the technologies for waste management. Only one country, Japan, is observed to have fulfilled almost all the aspects. As a matter of fact, the experiences gained and lessons learnt by Japan with technologies can be utilized by the other countries that are lagging far behind. Practices in developing countries like Japan, Singapore and Korea can be considered as an example or benchmark to reach the goal instead of starting from scratch. The identified gaps can be filled up by adopting technologies that are found to be predominantly successful in other countries depending on their applicability, generation rate and composition. Cost-effective and environment friendly technologies (e.g. wasteto-energy) are found to be the focus in developed countries than developing countries. Developing countries using technology as solutions for their waste, but with the impacts on environment can trail or seek technology transfer from the developed or any other successful countries. From the findings, though there have been successful practices such as thermal, fuel and material recovery was observed, there is still a lack of environment friendly technologies exists. For instance, incineration is one of the technologies highly practiced where problems with dioxin emissions and disposal are still persistent. Instead of finding adhoc solutions for waste management, strategic plans on choosing unobserved environmental friendly technologies practiced at smaller level has to be brought to limelight and made as a reference. Beginning from source segregation, acceptable technologies found in other countries can be followed in receipt of knowledge / technology transfer from them. Existing technology practices are not found to be sufficient to overcome the burden of waste in a sustainable manner. Simple technologies for 3R have to be made formal and strong by promoting new policies, reformulation of existing policies, cooperative efforts and technology transfer. Thus, the technologies chosen for waste management have to be evaluated for their sustainability, in addition to being environmentally effective, economically affordable and socially acceptable. Filling the gaps with such a design is highly indispensable for all the countries to reach the goal of a sound material-cycle society. In this endeavor: 3R technologies associated with MSW sorting, pulverization and composting have to be followed. Technologies like composting have proved to be one of the best affordable solutions for developing countries to manage their municipal waste. Further enhancement of current efforts is recommended for managing e-waste where policymakers and the industries join in implementing cleaner production mechanisms and enforce Extended Producer Responsibility. Source segregation of healthcare waste is vital in Asia for 3R implementation and management. To boost such initiatives and to solve the medical waste management dilemma, trained personnel at healthcare organizations are required to facilitate the appropriate management of the waste. An ideal example would be the ‘medical waste supervisor’ as suggested by Dr. Satoshi Imamura of the Japan Medical Association.
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