Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the discharge volume of domestic solid waste in rural China and to explore the potential impact of various factors that contribute to it. Design/methodology/approach – The data used in this study come from a large-scale field survey conducted in six Chinese provinces. Based on the collected survey data, econometric model on the determinants of d...

Mashhad city is located on alluvial deposits where the expanded area of this city, especially the central and eastern areas surrounding Imam Reza holy shrine, are built on weak and fine-grained deposits. Therefore, the soil improvement would be inevitable due to construction of high-rise buildings such as hotels and commercial complexes in these areas, as well as restructuring old buildin...

The Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) management is a complex service that should be provided with suitable and feasible technologies in developing countries like India. The collection element plays a vital role in the MSW management. Hence, the planning and design of community bins make a greater impact on the environment. In this regard, an application model called Design of Community Storage Syste...

During decontamination and decommissioning of a hot cell research laboratory located near West Jefferson, Ohio, Battelle Memorial Institute (BMI) is generating remote-handled transuranic waste (RH-TRU) to be certified for permanent disposal at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP). The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) require sites generating TRU was...

Most of the tertiary care hospitals use radioisotopes for diagnostic and therapeutic applications. Safe disposal of the radioactive waste is a vital component of the overall management of the hospital waste. An important objective in radioactive waste management is to ensure that the radiation exposure to an individual (Public, Radiation worker, Patient) and the environment does not exceed the ...

Increasing the production of hazardous waste during the past few years and stricter legislation in the area of permanent disposal and transportation costs were significantly elevated above activities. This creates a new, highly lucrative gray market which opens the way for the criminalization. Of great importance is the identification of illegal trafficking of hazardous waste since it can have ...

In the past few decades, solid waste management systems in Europe have involved complex and multi-faceted trade-offs among a plethora of technological alternatives, economic instruments, and regulatory frameworks. These changes resulted in various environmental, economic, social, and regulatory impacts in waste management practices which not only complicate regional policy analysis, but also re...

Integrated management of solid waste is nowadays a requirement and, at the same time, a challenge for the conservation of civilization and life on the planet. The material and energy exploitation of solid waste already contributes to a great extent to the resolution of environmental issues in the advanced countries of the planet. Unfortunately, a signifi cant delay in the treatment of waste is ...

The term "triangle of death" was used for the first time by Senior and Mazza in the journal The Lancet Oncology referring to the eastern area of the Campania Region (Southern Italy) which has one of the worst records of illegal waste dumping practices. In the past decades, many studies have focused on the potential of illegal waste disposal to cause adverse effects on human health in this area....

Here we present an emerging EDSS, based on the energy and materials flow model for evaluation of alternatives for processing domestic and commercial waste. The input information for the model is obtained through a literature search, consultations with stakeholders, and also using a specially designed expert system (ES) The ‘Smart Waste Questionnaire’. The ES implements an ITbased interrogative ...