Solid Waste Management in Costa Rica and the United States: a Comparative Analysis of Five Municipalities was prepared for El Centro de Investigaciones en Contaminación Ambiental (CICA). The main objective of this report was to recommend sustainable methods for the management of solid waste in three select Costa Rican municipalities. By means of research, interviews, and observations, we obtained data that aided in our understanding of solid waste management in both Costa Rica and the United States. A detailed analysis was devised for each Costa Rican municipality, and recommendations were specifically formulated according to each individual municipality's budget and sustainable waste management needs.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Pelletier, Brad W.
• Samuels, Eryn J.
• Levesque, Adam Paul

Subject

• Sustainability
• Environment
• Community
• Infrastructure

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 03E018I

Keyword

• Community development
• Recycling (Waste, etc.)
• Sustainable development--Environmental aspects
• Refuse and refuse disposal

Award

• President's IQP Award

Advisor

• Manzari, H. J.
• Vernon-Gerstenfeld, Susan

Year

• 2003

Center

• San Jose, Costa Rica Project Center - IQP

Sponsor

• Centrol de Investigaciones en Contaminación Ambiental (CICA)
• Arrieta, Ronald

Date created

• 2003-01-01

Location

• San José

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Last modified

• 2023-01-18