Urban waste management is a hard task: more than 30% of the world’s total production Municipal Solid Wastes (MSW) not adequately handled, with landfilling remaining as common practice. Another source wastes road pavement industry: service life about 10–15 years, asphalts become stiff, susceptible to cracks, and therefore no longer adapted for paving, so they wastes. To simultaneously solve thes...

In Tunisia, olive mill wastewater (OMWW) locally named ‘margine’ constitutes a serious problem due to its huge amount, of about one million ton per year, and the high pollutant load resulting in excessive chemical oxygen demand (COD) values presence phytotoxic antibacterial polyphenols. The most common treatment OMWW was storage evaporation ponds which are authorized but uncontrolled. Thus, it ...

This report presents the results of a study that examined alternatives to landfilling the municipal solid wastes (MSW) of New York City. Detailed characterization of the wastes led to their classification, according to materials properties and inherent value, to “recyclable”, compostable”, “combustible”, and “landfillable”. The results showed that the present rates of recycling (16.6%) and comb...

Improvement of the current waste management is one of the main challenges for most municipalities in Croatia, mainly due to legal obligations set in different European Union (EU) directives regarding waste management, such as reduction of waste generation and landfilling, or increase of separately collected waste and recycling rates. This paper highlights the current waste management in the cit...

Chromated copper arsenate (CCA)-treated wood is a preservative treated wood construction product that grew in use in the 1970s for both residential and industrial applications. Although some countries have banned the use of the product for some applications, others have not, and the product continues to enter the waste stream from construction, demolition and remodeling projects. CCA-treated wo...

Over the years the development of society and industry, coupled with growing awareness of environmental issues, has led to the application of increasingly sophisticated technological methods for handling waste. Between the 1970’s and the 1990’s disposal technologies took on an air of self-sufficiency often forcing operators to take sides, in much the same way as occurs with sport fans. Those in...