Integrated Municipal Solid Waste Management: A Literature Review On The State Of The Art

Abstract

In accordance with bibliometrics and the analysis of relevant articles, a review of the state of the art of the phenomenon of integrated municipal solid waste management was carried out. In this study, a keyword search argument has been formulated in the Scopus database, with this information the statistics of publications in terms of time, by types of documents, by area of knowledge and by countries was elaborated, then proceeded to the analytical reading of the methodological, theoretical, strategic and critical contributions to the management of publications using ATLAS.ti and with the bibliographies manager Mendeley. Then, it is concluded that according to the Scopus database, research was observed since 1975, with greater interest by researchers in this phenomenon since 2006, in which books, articles and reviews stand out, mainly in the environmental sciences, engineering, social sciences and in recent years economics and medicine. In the illustration of the phenomenon it was determined that developing countries do not have the proper process of municipal solid waste management and that is the main function of a local government, for which solutions were given in the cities through research conducted through a diagnosis, then the solution to the problems that were found and generate products such as energy, fuel and others.
Finally, the management of this phenomenon is facing an epidemic such as Covid 19, which changed the lifestyle of human beings and therefore the generation of solid waste, a change was made in the processes where recycling activities decreased in the countries of Europe, so, they arranged the extreme care in the process of municipal solid waste management.