Petroleum products contamination is a world-wide problem that threatens polluting groundwater and surface water systems. However, the problem is not only large-scale in scope when viewed from a case-by-case basis. Many fueling, construction, agricultural, and industrial activities result in the problem of managing smaller quantities of these soils from an ecological safety perspective. Landfill...

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...

Here, we analyzed the utilization efficiency of methane (CH<sub>4</sub>) gas from landfill sites associated with its power generation potential in different systems; addition, reduction amount CH<sub>4</sub> emitted landfills untreated waste, proposed an effective method for site selection, and investigated environmental issues caused by landfilling solid waste. Furtherm...

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...

Large areas of mine tailings are reclaimed by applying organic amendments such as paper mill sludge (PMS). Although mining industries can use PMS freshly generated by paper mills, operational constraints on paper industries make temporary landfilling of this material an unavoidable alternative for the paper industries, creating the most prominent PMS source for mining industries. This study aim...

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 ...

Plasticisers transform rigid polymers, especially PVC, into flexible and useful material, typically at 10-35% concentration. Four phthalate plasticizers are now banned in the EU (maximum concentration products of 0.1%). Are other plasticisers, used concentrations that make a product waste, unsafe? The hazardous properties plasticisers (Plastic Additives Initiative list) were collected from ECHA...

Of the various waste and side streams created in a kraft pulp mill, biological sludges from wastewater treatment plant are some of most problematic to handle. Incineration is becoming common solution as landfilling no longer permitted by legislation many countries, but this also due high moisture content, poor drying characteristics, ash content solids. This study evaluates technical potential ...

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...