Waste Management, Risks and Impacts on Islands. A Review of the Literature
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solid waste, management, islands, risksAbstract
Solid waste is a relevant problem for management in island contexts. The article presents an analysis of the issues, problems, and challenges through a systematic analysis of 70 articles between 2019 and 2022. To meet the objective, an exploratory systematic review was carried out methodologically, based on panoramic reviews, scoping studies, understood as the mapping of key concepts in an area of research, using the main sources and types of evidence available. The Web of Science (WOS) and SCOPUS databases were used for this purpose, as they are the search engines with the greatest coverage of current publications. Through a simple categorical analysis, the following topics were surveyed: solid waste management, waste composition analysis, effects of tourism on waste production and management, Waste to Energy (WtE) feasibility and viability analysis, technological integration, socio-environmental impact and organic waste composting. The results obtained suggest that large amounts of solid waste are generated and especially plastic has become a major problem and that management systems should be in constant continuous improvement and technological integration of solid waste in island contexts.
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