Although informal waste collectors are sometimes organized in cooperatives, their working conditions remain extremely precarious and unsafe. The paper discusses the findings of action oriented, participatory qualitative research with several recycling groups in the metropolitan region of São Paulo, Brazil. During workshops with the recyclers mapping, acting, and drawing methods helped reveal he...

Over 380000 tons of vegetable waste is produced annually in the “Campo de Dalías” zone (Almería, Spain), deriving from the diverse existing crops grown under plastic cover). Landfills containing this vegetable waste are a potential breeding ground for diseases and pests, they can also be the subject of uncontrolled burning, cause a riverbed blockage and, at the same time, they are an unsightly ...

In the fall of 1976 Congress enacted the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, commonly referred to as RCRA. The objective of the statute is to create an orderly system for the generation, handling and disposal of hazardous waste by means of a comprehensive tracking and record keeping mechanism. RCRA does not regulate directly by statute so much as it delegates rule making authority to the U....

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 vietnam, municipal solid waste (msw) has being become increasing complex due to variety of reasons as the increasing quantity, changing composition of msw, rising public awareness and municipal administration policies among different cities and surrounding communities. there is not currently an efficient management system in place for facilities such as storage, collection, transfer, transpo...

abstract minimizing service cost and adverse effects on environment and society are important in waste management. due to this, landfill and transfer station location become important. this article as a practical research uses analytical hierarchy process in multi criteria decision making considering environmental and social criteria in levels of benefit, opportunity, cost and risk (bocr) for p...

Most of the plastic waste is generated by households. Plastic often a problem because there are many and cannot decompose itself. To solve waste, management will be carried out channeling to bank. Good correct distribution applying transportation methods starting from modeling households solutions mathematical that built. From calculation, minimum cost managing obtained so an efficient system f...

Internal Combustion Engines (ICE) are experiencing a transition era in which research and innovation mainly pushed by environmental issues: emission reduction fuel saving indispensable requirements of the new technologies, otherwise end ICE is proposed Europe. Modifications, reality, under discussion 2026 but issues anyway welcomed. In transportation sector, today dominated ICEs, it appears tha...

Municipal solid waste (MSW), comprising food waste, residential rubbish and commercial waste, has been identified as a potential feedstock for the production of alternative fuels. Conversion of MSW to fuel could displace petroleum-derived fuels to mitigate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from transportation, and also avoid the GHG emissions associated with existing waste management strategies su...

BACKGROUND Hospitals in Pakistan produce about 250,000 tons of waste per year. Hospital waste has been reported to be poorly handled and managed by the hospital staff and administration respectively. This leads to environmental and health consequences within hospitals as well as to outside population. Our study aimed to describe the qualitative results of observations of ten large private and p...