On the UK Continental Shelf, up to 80,000 tonnes wet weight of oily drill cuttings are produced annually. These are heterogeneous wastes generated from the petroleum drilling industry, composed of significant percentages of hydrocarbons, heavy metals and chlorides. Since 1992, the discharge of drill cuttings containing more than 1% oil-on-cuttings has been prohibited. Moreover, the extensive in...

An important advantage of using a short-term pre-aeration of municipal solid waste (MSW) with high organic fractions prior to landfilling is that it intensively decomposes a part of organic matter, especially easily biodegradable fractions in waste, and thus regulates the subsequent anaerobic degradation of MSW under landfill conditions, meanwhile conserving the bio-methane potential as much as...

An environmental assessment of the management of organic household waste (OHW) was performed from a life cycle perspective by means of the waste-life cycle assessment (LCA) model EASEWASTE. The focus was on home composting of OHW in Denmark and six different home composting units (with different input and different mixing frequencies) were modelled. In addition, incineration and landfilling was...

With the increase in demand for plastic use, waste (WP) management remains a challenge contemporary world due to lack of sustainable efforts tackle it. The increment WPs is proportional man’s and use plastics, these come along with environmental challenges. This WPs, resulting consequences are mainly characteristic biodegradation properties plastics. Landfilling, pollution, groundwater contamin...

On the UK Continental Shelf, up to 80,000 tonnes wet weight of oily drill cuttings are produced annually. These are heterogeneous wastes generated from the petroleum drilling industry, composed of significant percentages of hydrocarbons, heavy metals and chlorides. Since 1992, the discharge of drill cuttings containing more than 1% oil-on-cuttings has been prohibited. Moreover, the extensive in...

Landfill disposal and waste-to-energy (WTE) incineration remain the two principal options for managing municipal solid waste (MSW). One critical determinant of the acceptability of these options is the different health risks associated with each. In this analysis relying on published data and exposure modeling, we have performed health risk assessments for landfill disposal versus WTE treatment...

Our society generates extensive amounts of municipal solid waste (MSW), which are mainly incinerated for volume reduction and energy recovery. Though, MSW incineration hazardous air pollution control (APC) residues that must be treated deposited in appropriate landfills. An alternative to landfilling is material recovery, leading regeneration valuable products reducing amounts. The chemical com...

This paper examined industrial waste management practices in Kaduna Metropolis, State, Nigeria. A mixed method was used carrying out the study as it involved surveys well use of GIS for site suitability. total 200 copies questionnaire were administered by adopting simple random sampling and analysis. lab test conducted findings revealed that there is a wide variation levels zinc nickel availabi...

Waste distribution and compaction at the working face of municipal waste landfills releases mercury vapor (Hg(o)) to the atmosphere, as does the flaring of landfill gas. Waste storage and processing before its addition to the landfill also has the potential to release Hg(o) to the air if it is initially present or formed by chemical reduction of Hg(II) to Hg(o) within collected waste. We measur...