Ramazzini Center/MScPubHealth SDU Thesis Projects/Composting and recycling for household and industrial waste management in Chitwan, Nepal (CAR-Nepal)/Minutes from meetings

Date: Oct 22, 2020 Time: 3 PM (Danish Time) Platform: Zoom Participants Suyasha Koirala Aayushi Thapa Olaf Jensen

Agenda: -- Date: Sept 30, 2020 Time: 3 PM (Danish Time) Platform: Zoom Participants Dinesh Neupane Suyasha Koirala Aayushi Thap Agenda: To inform Dinesh about the future plan on CAR Nepal project He has worked a while in this topic and is happy to help in any ways possible. - 9 sep 8am Suyasha and Aayusi decided to quit waste household and go to pesticides better relate to health, support, they find out to get data and review - they orientate Erik and Dines - Minutes meeting 2 sep 2020 - Minutes meeting 19 Aug 2020 - Date: 12th August 2020 Time: 3 PM Platform: Zoom Participants Updates Searched Keywords Most of the research is done either in medical waste or in garbage pickers. Summary - Meeting Aug 5 8 am Suyasha & Aayushi invite Zoom - Zoom meeting 29 July at 3pm
 * 1) to find out the validity of master tesis in Nepal according to new laws:
 * 2) Analysis of orginal data is needed?
 * 3) Systematic literature review is not sufficient
 * 4) Next meeting Thur 29 Oct at 3pm Danish (wintertime?)
 * 1) After informing that both of them will help in literature review but will not make a project a thesis Dinesh respected the decision and asked for the future plan.
 * 2) Upon hearing the topic he suggested following things;
 * 3) He has also done the research on pesticide and is available in the SDU library if it is not accessible then he will forward.
 * 4) He suggested using households selected for the community based management of non communicable disease study in Nepal (COBIN) if the topic is related to NCD.
 * 1.	Aayushi Thapa
 * 2.	Suyasha Koirala
 * 3.	Olaf Chresten Jensen
 * -	Solid waste = 11,581
 * -	Solid Waste Management = 3,711
 * -	Municipal and Solid Waste = 1,689
 * -	Household waste and Health risk = 22
 * -	Systematic critical review of epidemiological studies on PH concerns of Municipal solid waste handling. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1757913916639077
 * Time reviewed: 1995 - 2014
 * Conclusion: Review studies revealed no causal and non-causal relationship between specific waste management and adverse endpoints.
 * -	Assessment of plastic waste generation and its potential recycling of Household Solid Waste in Vietnam.   https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20490914/
 * A 1-month survey of 130 households was carried out in southern Vietnam.
 * Conclusion: The compostable and recyclable accounted for 80.74% and 11%. The plastic shopping bags accounted for 45.72% of total plastic waste. No strategies have been developed for recycling and disposal of plastic waste at local level and central level.
 * Agenda
 * 1.	Ideas on research questions
 * a.	Handling of solid waste in Nepal
 * b.	General situation of solid waste in Nepal
 * c.	Improper solid waste management and the risk of contamination with animals (rats)
 * d.	People living near the contamination site (health prob of ultra poor people)
 * Next Meeting
 * -	Search more on topics that were discussed today
 * Time: 3 PM (Danish Time)
 * Date: 19th August, 2020
 * Minutes from meeting 5 Aug 2020

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 * Minutes Meeting 29 july
 * Erik and Diness Would prefer 5. or 6. of august

Zoom meeting 21 July 2020 _____________________________________
 * Participants: Suyasha Koirala, Aayushi Thapa, Olaf
 * Contact information shared
 * Plan for next days:
 * Create login for Wikiversity
 * Clarifiy the names CISU application (Kurt Rasmussen is probably member not any longer)
 * Discuss the plan: pesticide and CAR-Nepal (both or only one)
 * Talk with Sabine and Janni (pls correct names) about place internship
 * Zoom invitation from SK and AT
 * Next Zoom meeting 29 July at 3pm Danish time

The first Meeting minutes 02072020 pdf