Related to the concept of Integrated Sustainable Waste Management (ISWM): sustainability in this concept includes the three pillars of sustainability (environmental, economic and social) - meaning a solid waste mgmt. system should maintain itself over time without exhausting renewable / non-renewable resources. Sustainable WM is vital for conserving valuable natural resources, preventing the unnecessary emission of GHGs, protecting public health and natural ecosystems.

Integrated in this context means all three domains of sustainability (environment, society, economy) addressed, different waste management options are possible (prevention, reuse, recycling, energy recovery, disposal,…), different habitat scales considered (household, neighbourhood, city, region,…), various stakeholders involved (formal and informal, profit-oriented and non-profit, large and small, local and national, men and women,…), both technological issues and non-technological issues addressed (people’s attitudes towards waste, ability and willingness to pay, environmental effects, transparency of institutions, citizen participation, political interventions,…) and interlinkages with other urban systems (e.g. water supply, drainage, agriculture,…) considered.

In my opinion, the "integrated management" is the program and the planification and the sustainable management is the way to achieve this. I answer this but I know that sb can say the same backwards. 

Integrated management may not be sustainable because of economy and technological difficulties; but sustainable management will persist i.e. will be adopted by stakeholders.

The difference between Integrated management and Sustainable management is that integrated management  involved the steps of prevention, recycling, composting, and disposal program, which may be not or may be considering the sustainable management. As per definition of sustainable management is that you can manage the solid waste without destruction of environment.

Related to the concept of Integrated Sustainable Waste Management (ISWM): sustainability in this concept includes the three pillars of sustainability (environmental, economic and social) - meaning a solid waste mgmt. system should maintain itself over time without exhausting renewable / non-renewable resources. Sustainable WM is vital for conserving valuable natural resources, preventing the unnecessary emission of GHGs, protecting public health and natural ecosystems.

Integrated in this context means all three domains of sustainability (environment, society, economy) addressed, different waste management options are possible (prevention, reuse, recycling, energy recovery, disposal,…), different habitat scales considered (household, neighbourhood, city, region,…), various stakeholders involved (formal and informal, profit-oriented and non-profit, large and small, local and national, men and women,…), both technological issues and non-technological issues addressed (people’s attitudes towards waste, ability and willingness to pay, environmental effects, transparency of institutions, citizen participation, political interventions,…) and interlinkages with other urban systems (e.g. water supply, drainage, agriculture,…) considered.

 Vey good question, starting deeper analysis...I also tend to consider that here the conceptual sense of integrated is more technical (waste production-waste recycling-little waste disposal eventually), so it is a matter of circular economy closing the loop on resource use as much as possible...this ISWM should be also sustainable, if done properly ( with socio- economic and environmental responsability and efficiency)

The Law of Integral Management Waste states that the process of the integrated management of this are "policies, resources, actions, processes and operations that are applied in all phases of its management ranging from the generation of waste until the final disposition of this ".

Generally, the comprehensive management of solid waste comprises four activities (Tchobanoglous et al., 1994):

• Reduction at source, which is the most effective way to reduce the amount of waste, the cost associated with handling and environmental impacts. Waste can be reduced through design, production and packaging of products with minimal toxic material, minimum volume of material, longer shelf life and product reuse and materials.

• Recycling, which involves the separation and collection of waste materials, the preparation of these materials in order to reuse, reprocessing and transformation into new products. reliable and close to the recovered materials in order to have a satisfactory recycling market program is necessary. In addition, recycling programs require collection and processing infrastructure to enable a reliable and consistent supply of recovered material for manufacturers. Among the recovered materials most commonly used in recycling are: aluminum, paper and cardboard, glass, plastics and ferrous materials such as iron and steel (Henry and Heinke, 1999).

• Transformation of waste through operations that alter its chemical, physical or biological composition. An example of this transformation is the combustion and production of fertilizer.

While the management of waste from the point of sustainable view , includes the aspects considered in sustainability are environmental , social and economic aspect and must begin to effect separation of waste at the source thereof and incorparar the recycling and reuitlización thereof to minimize the volume of rresiduos in landfills .

The only difference between integrated and Sustainability is the way you look at the problem. The integrated solution basically looks at the problem in a system perspective while sustainable management looks at from triple bottom line perspective. However, if you look at into deep of sustainable model include embedded with an integrated model as when you look at sustainable model obviously you should consider the integrtaed approach from Life Cycle Perspective which covers the expected integration. 

Dear Alex,

I am familiar with the process/concept of Integrated Coastal Zone Management, but I think that principles apply to rivers, forests, anthropic areas (rural/urban). The integrated management is related to a well defined area - geographically, including geopolitically (North/South, developed/underdeveloped, West/East) in an attmept to reach sustainability. This is the way integrated coastal zone management was defined in 1992 at Rio's Conference.

Integrated management and sustainable development are two very dynamic concepts, unfortunatelly used and abused especially by companies which are not paying for taking the environment for granted. As similar concept is the 'polluter pay principle', which is one of the most debatable principles (see Ulrich Beck, 1992, 2002).

Integrated management is usually better connected with the immediate reality and there are procedures/methodologies to follow.

Unfortunatelly with sustainable development just as Sing (1999)  Sunstain (2002) point out , it is more complicated because it involves the resources of future generations and raises many inequality issues (inter-generational, inter-species, human/non-human).

Having an integrated waste system requires that the system is sustainable as in the definition given by Brundtland Commision.

Thank you all for participating!

I believe that all opinions are showing issues of interest for integrated management and in fact the interrelation of sustainability with all attributes referred, mean that the complexity of systems analysis needs more or less addressing needs on a relevant scale of implementation, that is,

 using integrated practices in an existing / less organized environment in order to improve it at a preferred level.

 but still that’s not easy. In contrast it needs holistic assessment that is very difficult from my experience to deliver as proper project analysis cannot be articulated from single science disciplines but wants collaboration between different perspectives that emerge along with the need for Market based synergy.

So integration is really a multidisciplinary approach i believe  

Sustainability refers to managing municipal solid waste in a way that the MSW programme advances the social (public health & etc), economic (cost effective services & create job creation opportunities through recycling etc) and environmental (low carbon footprint). However, integrated means an interlinked services that incorporates different aspects such as recycling, composting, waste-to-energy technologies and so forth. Basically, the use of these two concepts are often abused and randomly used without really looking at their scientific meanings. However, they both have related, but clearly distinctive meanings and impact if correctly implemented (see some related sustainability MSW issues in one of our publication on solid waste).

Dear Alex ,

Integrated solid waste management deals the option of different methods of solid wastes based on different respective (i.e reuse recycle  waste to energy and land filling) however sustainable solid waste management concerned the longer and environmental  friendly service (i.e those methods of solid waste management served longer time ) 

Dear Alex, integrated solid wastes management refer to the strategies and tools employed for the best possible destination for solid wastes, and the way someone (the manager) can assign priorities to the choices of such strategies and tools. Integration can be underpinned by economic reasons, not necessarily by ecological ones.

Sustainable wastes management refers to the best (simultaneously) ecological and economic choices for managing wastes. 

In practice, both things usually converge.

charging residents by the actual amount discarded by a household rather than on a per-address basis would really send a much better price signal.

Integrated solid waste management is a comprehensive approach including prevention/avoidance, reduction/substitution, recycling/recovery. Where as sustainable waste management may include the same but emphasis is to meet the needs of the current generation without compromising the ability of the future generation to meet their own needs. Sustainable issues may be technical, socio-economic and environmental 

Dear Alex,

You may find our recently published article on solid waste management based on waste based biorefinery, which accounts for both integrated and sustainable waste management concepts.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/303524450_Developing_waste_biorefinery_in_Makkah_A_way_forward_to_convert_urban_waste_into_renewable_energy

All the best

Rehan  

Article Developing waste biorefinery in Makkah: A way forward to con...

In context of sustainable solid waste we must consider the environmental, social and economical aspects and their related criteria

Municipal Solid Waste Management, broadly deals with post-consumer waste, in prevention, treatment, recycle, reuse and disposal.

Dear Alex,

Integrated Solid Waste Management (ISWM) provides a framework for the development of a sustainable MSW service, which can take place with the use of a range of collection, transport and treatment options. It takes an overall approach to creating sustainable systems that are economically affordable, socially acceptable and environmentally effective. An integrated solid waste management system involves the use of a range of different treatment methods, and key to the functioning of such a system is the collection and sorting of the waste. It is important to note that no one single treatment method can manage all the waste materials in an environmentally effective way. Thus all of the available treatment and disposal options must be evaluated equally and the best combination of the available options suited to the particular community chosen. Effective management schemes therefore need to operate in ways which best meet current social, economic, and environmental conditions of the municipality. 

For Detail Find the attached file

Krishna

Integrated solid waste management is the accepted option for sustainable solid waste management. It is a main framework correlated with sustainable waste management. You can see successful operations of integrated solid waste management through these articles.  

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