Background: Due to the lack of a proper waste management system, Tehran Municipality Region 20 is facing economic and environmental problems such as the high costs of a disposal system and source pollution. Life cycle assessment (LCA) is a method for collecting and evaluating the inputs, outputs, and potential environmental impacts of a product system throughout its life cycle. The current stud...

This report presents the results of a study that examined alternatives to landfilling the municipal solid wastes (MSW) of New York City. Detailed characterization of the wastes led to their classification, according to materials properties and inherent value, to “recyclable”, compostable”, “combustible”, and “landfillable”. The results showed that the present rates of recycling (16.6%) and comb...

Large volumes of ash from combustion of municipal solid waste are produced and most of it is landfilled. As this type of ash contains significant amounts of metal compounds the landfilling strategy is not optimal when considered from a resource conservation perspective. A better situation would be created if metals were recovered from the ash. In the present study leaching and solvent extractio...

The disposal of polymer solid waste by means other than landfilling is necessary. The various approaches-source reduction, incineration, degradation, composting, and recycling-all have their roles and must be employed in an integrated manner. Where appropriate, recycling has ecological advantages, but its application is dependent upon the feasibility of collection, sorting, and/or compatibiliza...

Prioritizing waste prevention, reuse, recycling and recovery of materials energy over disposal through landfilling, offers the hierarchy approach (WHA) a sustainable pathway to management municipal solid wastes (MSW) realization circular economy. The concept is now part legal framework in some developing countries its implementation has been credited for addressing problems linked high rates ec...

The management of municipal solid waste is a crucial issue to address as we move toward the decarbonization urban contexts. Not by chance, this sector plays relevant role in Covenant Mayors program, whereby municipalities are called design their own Sustainable Energy Action Plans (SECAPs). However, despite new regulations strongly pushing recycling and reuse materials contained waste, many cit...

Abstract Purpose Landfilling can result in a loss revenue that would otherwise have been accrued from recycling plastic waste, potential jobs, and groundwater contamination. Plastics landfills may also eventually find their way into marine environments, where they be damaging to animals. This work aims establish the environmental sustainability of current waste management practices South Africa...

The aim of this paper is to assess whether and what extent income the stringency enforcement (S&E) environmental regulation influence compliance with EU Waste Hierarchy (EWH), i.e., how member states treat waste. EWH prioritizes waste prevention re-use over recycling, which ranked above energy (WtE), while incineration landfilling are least preferred options. Biennial panel data for period 2010...

Abstract Industrial processes are the main generator of littering agents, and growing environmental awareness has contributed to a focus on issue littering. One biggest issues in world is how manage this waste given limited space available, high cost remediation, need for landfilling. However, idea reusing some an alternative solution decreasing process landfilling, reducing increase waste. In ...

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...