Integrated waste management: environmental assessment and planning

Developing an Integrated Environmental Assessment Model for Waste Management System

The paradigm of waste management shifts toward more integrated management, hence a more integrated environment assessment method is emerging to support the strategy formulation. As a systematic and comprehensive environmental management tool, life cycle assessment (LCA) can serve as a keystone of integrated environmental assessment method. But three issues needs improvement: credibility on inve...

Waste Management Planning in Amirkabir Petrochemical Complex

The Amirkabir petrochemical complex (APC) is located in the south of Iran, on the northern coastline of the Persian Gulf. It has five different units which generate various waste estimated at 3115.98 ton/year. The objective of this study was to focus on the management of the processing wastes for minimizing the adverse environmental impacts. In order to properly manage and control waste generat...

Integrated solid waste management in megacities

Rapid urbanization and industrialization, population growth and economic growth in developing countries make management of municipal solid waste more complex comparing with developed countries. Furthermore, the conventional municipal solid waste management approach often is reductionists, not tailored to handle complexity. Therefore, the need to a comprehensive and multi-disciplinary approach r...

Environmental assessment for management of waste through energy conversion technologies

Increasing population and changing life style has led to the dramatic increase in waste generation. It has been estimated that global generation of post recycling MSW in populated centers amounts about 1.2 billion ton per year. India alone produces about 90 million tons of MSW per year. If this large amount of waste can be converted into energy then the problem of its management and energy cris...

Environmental assessment of garden waste management in the Municipality of