In the last few decades, there has been a dramatic increase in industrial and urban activities, culminating in the need for people to adopt improved living conditions. This has led to an increase in the use of packaging materials, mainly in the form of plastic. Plastics have become an indispensable part of today’s world. Due to their lightweight, durability, energy efficiency, coupled with ease...

In the last few decades, there has been a dramatic increase in industrial and urban activities, culminating in the need for people to adopt improved living conditions. This has led to an increase in the use of packaging materials, mainly in the form of plastic. Plastics have become an indispensable part of today’s world. Due to their lightweight, durability, energy efficiency, coupled with ease...

Concerns over the environment and the rising costs for energy and wastewater treatment have caused a resurgence of interest in anaerobic treatment and subsequent use of the biogas produced during this treatment of organic wastes as fuel. Biogas from faecal and landfill wastes has become a potential renewable energy source for both domestic and commercial usage especially in Ghana where a 50MW c...

The objective of this study was to identify the components, composition, generation rate and management of dental waste in Urmia, Iran. Fifteen dental centers including eight general dental offices, five specialist dental offices and two dental clinics were selected and two samples were taken from each office. Then, the wastes were manually separated in 31 components and weighted. The results s...

background: dental wastes are one of the environmental issues due to toxic and pathogenic agents such as pathological wastes, pharmaceutical and chemical etc have particular sensitivity. the aim of this study was to determine the dental waste management and related factors in the city of ilam. methods: in this cross-sectional study, the studied community was all the sixteen dental clinics in il...

Meat industry waste waters are 5 to 10 times as strong (BOD)as domestic sewage and contain much higher nitrogen, phosphorus and grease concentrations. Conservation measures and pretreatment facilities are aimed principally at blood (or blood water), casing slimes, wet rendering (tank water), paunch manure, yard drainage and hog hair. The answers available are: dry rendering of blood and grease,...

Reducing the environmental effects of construction is a continuing professional and social concern to promote sustainable development. In this paper, we estimate the major commodity and service inputs, resource requirements, and environmental emissions and wastes for four major U.S. construction sectors as defined by the Department of Commerce: (1) highway, bridge, and other horizontal construc...

Remediation states for the removal of pollutants from the environment. Remediation can be done in various ways such as by using waste biomass for sorption of pollutants or by living organisms like plants, microbes that cause degradation of pollutants. Bioremediation implies the use of microbes in the removal of heavy metals, industrial wastes and any other type of toxic wastes from the environm...

Carbonization is a kind of pyrolysis process to produce char from organic materials under an inert atmosphere. In this work, chars derived from various solid wastes were characterized from the standpoint of fuel recovery and pretreatment of waste before landfilling. Sixteen kinds of municipal and industrial solid wastes such as residential combustible wastes, non-combustible wastes, bulky waste...

Abstract Solid wastes from domestic, industrial and agricultural sectors cause acute economic environmental problems. These issues can be partly solved by anaerobic digestion of wastes, yet this process is incomplete generates abundant byproducts as digestate. Therefore, cultivating mixotrophic algae on digestate appears a promising solution for nutrient recovery, pollutant removal biofuel prod...