Waste Management Problems on Bawean Island, Indonesia

Paradise recovered: energy production and waste management in island environments

In this study, we investigate the conclusions of a previous study by the authors regarding the competitiveness of waste-to-energy (WTE) technologies with data from Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico’s situation matches many of the conditions laid out in the earlier study and the island is currently seeking to modernize its energy production and waste management options. Examining production and environme...

E-waste: Environmental Problems and Current Management

In this paper the environmental problems related with the discarded electronic appliances, known as e-waste, are reviewed. Moreover, the current and the future production of e-waste, the potential environmental problems associated with their disposal and management practices are discussed whereas the existing e-waste management schemes in Greece and other countries (Japan, Switzerland) are also...

Solid Waste Management Challenges in Pacific Island Countries

A Survey on Municipal Waste Problems (Case Study of Mashhad)

This study at first level focused on definitions and descriptions of  some landfills and landfills sites all around the world and  survey on how important they are for regional governments and responsible in duty  as a very important responsibility for locals and their health. At the second level we had a look on heavy metals concentration which are by many definitions as follows: lead, nickel,...

Waste and Waste Management

Discard studies have demonstrated that waste is more than just a symptom of an all-too-human demand for meaning, or a merely technical problem for the likes of sanitary engineers and public health officials. The afterlife of waste materials and processes of waste management reveal the centrality of transient and discarded things for questions of materiality and ontology, marginal and polluting ...