The automotive shredder residue (ASR) is generated as an inevitable waste after the shredding process of end-of-life vehicles. Typically, ASR ends up in a landfill absence any existing processing options. comprises rubber, wood, plastics, textile, metals, and other materials, such paint glass (10%), which can be recycled reused. Given these attributes, potential feedstock for energy production ...

As a result of climate change, streams are warming and their runoff has been decreasing in most temperate areas. These changes can affect consumers directly by increasing their metabolic rates and modifying their physiology and indirectly by changing the quality of the resources on which organisms depend. In this study, a common stream detritivore (Echinogammarus berilloni Catta) was reared at ...

The European directive 2000/53/EC implies a "reuse and recovery" rate for end-of-life vehicles (ELVs) of 95% to be reached by the year 2015. One of the options to increase the actual average European "reuse and recovery" rate of approximately 78% (EU 15, 2008) is incineration of automotive shredder residue (ASR) with energy-recovery. The mass balance and the congener fingerprints for PCDD/Fs, d...

There has been a gradual increase in the field of parts recovery from cars that are withdrawn use. However, disposal automotive shredder residue (ASR) still remains significant problem. ASR is refuse derived fuel (RDF), which contains mainly plastics, fiber sponges, and rubbers different proportions, therefore thermal treatment selected waste samples applied. The presented research includes the...

Nutrient enrichment of detritus-based streams increases detrital resource quality for consumers and stimulates breakdown rates of particulate organic carbon (C). The relative importance of dissolved inorganic nitrogen (N) vs. phosphorus (P) for detrital quality and their effects on microbial- vs. detritivore-mediated detrital breakdown are poorly understood. We tested effects of experimental N ...