The effect of improving solid waste collection on waste disposal behaviour and exposure to environmental risk factors in urban low‐income communities in Pakistan

Wolf‐Peter Schmidt, Irfan Haider, Musarat Hussain, Mahpara Safdar, Farooq Mustafa, Terrill Massey, Gerald Angelo, Mari E. W. Williams, Richard Gower, Zoone Hasan,

Tropical Medicine & International Health · 2022 · 11 citations · 10 references

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Abstract

Introduction of a low-cost waste collection service has the potential for high uptake in low-income communities and for decreasing the exposure to waste and synanthropic flies at household level. Intervention success was constrained by low uptake in half of the intervention communities.

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