In the past 20 years, municipal solid waste policies have changed in response to societal and environmental changes. Municipal solid waste policies in many countries become more complicated and numerous. This paper reviews several models developed to support decision making in the area of municipal solid waste management (MSWM). It has been discovered that many modern decisionmaking support sys...

This paper identifies instituional arrangmenets and characteristics which either facilitate or impede regional cooperation in municipal solid waste management. The research draws upon an examination of five solid waste regions formed in Tennessee in 1992 in response to state legislation requiring development of comprehensive solid waste management plans. Characteristics and institutional arrang...

Abstract: The Thermoselect process is a completely new solid waste treatment process which achieves pollution-free recycling of municipal solid waste and industrial waste by a high temperature gasification and reforming process. The process effectively recovers fuel gas from waste and recycles metal and other byproducts as resources. A stable gas engine power generation system using purified sy...

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...

--This study is an attempt to stabilize the heavy metals present in the municipal solid waste. A hydrothermal processing system was setup with a mixture of ferric sulphate. Experimental results showed the reduction in the heavy metals concentration in the municipal solid waste ash after the treatment with iron oxides. Initial values of Cg, Cu, Pb, Cr, Hg was 0.001 mg/L , 4.322 mg/L , 0.578 mg/L...

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The recent study was carried out for the comparative analysis of heavy metals in Brassica campestris and Raphanus sativus irrigated with municipal waste water of Sargodha city. Field surveys were done for this experiment. Three experimental sites i.e Bhalwal road, Ajnala road and Faisalabad road were selected in Sargodha city for field surveys. Vegetables samples were collected from these sites...

A two-year field experiment was carried out to investigate the effects of nitrogen, composted manure, municipal waste compost, and weeds on yield and photosynthetic characteristics of corn. Experimental design was split split plot factorial with 3 replications. Main plots were weedy and weed-free, sub plots were nitrogen fertilizer levels [0 (N0) and 200 (N200) kg N ha -1 as urea], and sub sub ...

Mercury pollution is a persistent and increasing problem in the environment. Along with some natural sources of the metal, major man-made sources of mercury pollution include incinerators, fossil fuel plants, and municipal sewage systems. The EPA estimated that in 1989, approximately 643,000 kg of mercury was discarded as municipal solid waste, with 84% of it landfilled.