Polymeric Geomembranes Used in Municipal Waste Facilities

Financing Alternatives for Municipal Solid Waste Management Facilities

The ultimate responsibility for the collection and disposal of municipal solid waste rests with local government. As regional planning developed, more counties and states assumed some or all of this re­ sponsibility. The Federal Government has not, to date, provided the broad financial support for solid waste systems now available for municipal waste water systems. Their participation has been ...

Municipal waste management in Spain

Municipal Solid Waste Incinerators

more garbage than any other nationover 160 million tons of garbage each year or more than 1,200 pounds per person. EPA expects this to increase to more than 2,300 pounds of garbage per person each year within the next 1 2 years. Whether it is recycled, buried or burned, the fate of this refuse has major impacts on public health, the environment and the economy. United States citizens generate W...

WRATE: Waste LCA for Municipal Waste Strategies

A waste Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) tool, called Waste and Resources Assessment Tool for the Environment (WRATE) has been developed on the behalf of the Environment Agency for England and Wales, Scottish Environment Protection Agency and Department of Environment, Northern Ireland. This tool provides life cycle information to municipal authorities, central government and other stakeholders invo...

Municipal Solid Waste Performance Indicators

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This paper introduces a framework developed for the waste management sector supported by Performance Indicators. It was designed in order to be coherent and articulate and to enable full integration of its information. These indicators proved to be a useful management tool. This framework includes 167 performance indicators (PI) divided into two types of information: 58 Contex...