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Towards a sustainable waste management in Cameroon
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Abstract
The management of waste is a challenge of the current day. The current article intempts to propose solutions to a sustainable management of wastes in Cameroon. After a concise description of the context and a well definition of the scope. It comes out that efforts should be done to intensify awareness, the development of recycling units such as biogas or compost.
Keywords
waste management, biogas, compost, recycling, sustainable
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Bienvenu,A.W.V. (2023). Towards a sustainable waste management in Cameroon. Advances in Engineering Innovation,4,43-51.
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