{"id":8766,"date":"2024-05-14T14:26:08","date_gmt":"2024-05-14T06:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/?p=8766"},"modified":"2024-05-14T14:26:08","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T06:26:08","slug":"training-opportunity-conducting-waste-characterization-studies-for-data-driven-waste-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/index.php\/2024\/05\/14\/training-opportunity-conducting-waste-characterization-studies-for-data-driven-waste-management\/","title":{"rendered":"[TRAINING OPPORTUNITY] Conducting Waste Characterization Studies for Data-Driven Waste Management"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Globally, waste generation rates are on the rise due to rapid population growth and urbanization\u2014and many cities lack up-to-date, integrated waste management plans to safely manage this waste. As a first step in this process, it is critical that cities know how much and what types of waste are generated, collected, and disposed\u2014and what materials compose these waste streams.\u00a0<strong>A Waste Characterization Study<\/strong>\u00a0can gather this information, and future projections, to inform data-driven Integrated Solid Waste Management Plans.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Join USAID&#8217;s Clean Cities, Blue Ocean program to learn more about conducting Waste Characterization Studies.<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0This virtual training will provide an overview of USAID\u2019s waste characterization methodology for cities and share experiences from the cities of Saman\u00e1 in the Dominican Republic and Phu Quoc in Vietnam, where waste characterization studies have provided data to improve the waste management process.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Training Topics<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Planning a waste characterization study<\/li>\n<li>Study methodology<\/li>\n<li>Data analysis and reporting<\/li>\n<li>Experiences in the Dominican Republic and Vietnam<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>When:\u00a0May 22, 2024 (Wednesday)\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>7:00 &#8211; 8:00 AM (Lima, UTC -5)<\/li>\n<li>8:00 &#8211; 9:00 AM (New York; Santo Domingo, UTC -4)<\/li>\n<li>5:30 &#8211; 6:30 PM (Colombo, UTC +5:30)<\/li>\n<li>7:00 &#8211; 8:00 PM (Hanoi; Jakarta, UTC +7)<\/li>\n<li>8:00 &#8211; 9:00 PM (Manila, UTC +8)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Globally, waste generation rates are on the rise due to rapid population growth and urbanization\u2014and many cities lack up-to-date, integrated waste management plans to safely manage this waste. As a first step in this process, it is critical that cities know how much and what types of waste are generated, collected, and disposed\u2014and what materials [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,51],"tags":[2044,2045,478,589,1178,470,474,376],"class_list":["post-8766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-news","category-news","tag-characterization","tag-data-driven","tag-study","tag-training","tag-usaid","tag-waste","tag-waste-characterization","tag-waste-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8767,"href":"https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8766\/revisions\/8767"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}