In fiscal year 2007, Georgia collected $15.4 billion in state and local current charges and miscellaneous revenue, which was 32 percent of Georgia state and local own source revenue. State and local current charges and miscellaneous revenue is a census revenue category made up of many subcategories. For instance, current charges include public college tuition and fees, highway tolls, and revenu...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The sheer volume of electrical and electronic waste (e-waste) has presently been generated in Vietnam, posing a growing concern regarding its impact can have on the environment and human health. Therefore, the need for developing policies and regulations towards the environmentally sound management of e-waste is becoming crucial. Although the municipa...

high levels of weee and limited capacities for disposal and recycling, together with thenecessity to transpose the european legislation into national law have shaped the profile of weee system inromania. in order to improve the functionality of this system it is important to understand the citizens’behaviour towards weee recycling. recent research conducted in different countries suggest that v...

high levels of weee and limited capacities for disposal and recycling, together with thenecessity to transpose the european legislation into national law have shaped the profile of weee system inromania. in order to improve the functionality of this system it is important to understand the citizens’behaviour towards weee recycling. recent research conducted in different countries suggest that v...

Food waste is a major challenge for society as it causes economic, environmental and social problems. Many food-waste-reduction measures aim to prevent food at the source or by redistributing surplus via donation. However, would also be useful evaluate surplus-food redistribution, where can made available human consumption valorization (recycling). This paper evaluates measures, converted into ...

recently, the demands for the production of many different types of plastic wastes are greatly growing that subsequently, lead to the serious challenges in environmental considerations. since, these materials are rarely resolved by microorganisms, hence, their recycling to the useful materials is crucial. in the present study, we used a solution electrospinning technique to synthesize nano/micr...

this study was conducted to identify emission characteristics of certain hazardous substancescontained in the plastic of used home electrical and electronic appliances keeping in view compliance with therestriction of hazardous substances (rohs) directive and to estimate the possibility of safe recyclingpractices. according to the results, the concentration of cadmium, lead, mercury and chromiu...

in this study, the possibility of producing coal with less than 11% ash from tailings of flotation process was investigated. the effect of six flotation parameters: collector type, collector consumption, frother type, frother consumption, pulp density and mixing rate were studied on a sample from a tailing dam. a software based experimental design approach (dx7) was applied to determine and mod...

This paper assesses the impact of sharing customers’ channel preference information on pricing and performance in a dual channel supply chain, where the supplier opens a direct channel and a traditional retailer owns a retail channel. Both the supplier and the retailer perform their forecasting demands based on the ratio of consumers’ preferences in the direct channel when we consider the chara...

Developing countries have embarked on the promotion of “ICT access for all” through subsidized Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), especially in underserviced areas of such countries. The main aim of the “ICT access for all” is to extend the communication services to the large areas of underserviced regions through subsidized communication services. In some instances, subsidies m...