the study was undertaken with the objectives to: (1) study the present status of plastic waste management and the existing phnom penh household willingness and their influence factors to segregate plastics for recycling and reuse (plastics & non plastics); (2) study how other cities encouraged and obtained the participation of their population in plastics recycling and reuse and (3) recommend w...

The separation of pure polyolefins, polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP), from post-consumer plastic waste is of increasing interest in the last years according to market requirements for their further recycling. In this paper new analytical inspection strategies, based on HyperSpectral Imaging (HSI) in the VIS-NIR and NIR fields (400-1000 and 1000-1700 nm, respectively), have been investig...

Plastic packaging of food products has a significant impact on the sustainability industry and trade. The article presents selected problems surrounding production plastic for storage distribution that might cause disruptions in implementation sustainable production. An important question regards extent to which produces this complies with requirements. present work consists an investigation ob...

introduction medical waste contains highly toxic metals, toxic chemicals, pathogenic viruses and bacteria, which can lead to pathological dysfunction of the human body. the hazards of exposure to hospital waste can range from gastro-enteric, respiratory, and skin infections to more deadly diseases such as hepatitis b & c, and hiv/aids. additionally, medical waste contains potentially harmful mi...

Plastic pollution and climate change are serious interconnected threats to public planetary health, as well major drivers of global social injustice. Prolific use plastics in the construction industry is likely a key contributor, resulting burgeoning efforts promote recycling or downcycling used plastics. Businesses, materials scientists, institutions, other interested stakeholders currently ex...

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The activities conducted for the improvement of municipal solid waste (MSW) management in Hargeisa City, Somaliland capital city, are described hereafter. CeTAmb has been carrying on a study for the improvement of collection, recycling and disposal of MSW in Northern Somalia since 2005. The study was initially performed in collaboration with UNA Consortium within " Somalia Urb...

Clinical waste disposal carries with it a risk of serious and possibly life-threatening infection. Combining confidential questionnaires and structured interviews with discrete observation, the attitudes and approach to safe handling of bulk clinical wastes by staff in a specialist waste treatment facility were assessed. With particular attention to glove use and hand hygiene, observations were...

There is a growing interest in management of MSW through micro-treatment of organic fraction of municipal solid wastes (OFMSW) in many cities of India. The OFMSW fraction is high (>80%) in many pockets within South Indian cities like Bangalore, Chikkamagalur, etc. and is largely represented by vegetable, fruit, packing and garden wastes. Among these, the last three have shown problems for easy ...

Until recently, China was the largest scrap and unsorted waste importer in world. Chinese industries sorted imported wastes recovered plastic, paper, textiles, metals, using them as raw materials for manufacturing processes. Since 2013, government has imposed measures to ban import of wastes, latest one being “National Sword” policy (fully deployed January 2021), banning recycled wastes. As a r...

tobacco is planted extensively in golestan province and high volume of its stem wastes remained without using and it is burned. as a useful purpose of these wastes and to reduce the environmental problems, in this the mechanical properties of polypropylene composites reinforced with tobacco stalk flour were studied. for this purpose, the tobacco stalk flour as the reinforcement, in three levels...