Sea shores of Gilan Province is one off the biggest tourist attractions in Iran. This area have valuable forests and grasslands. In addition it provides significant amount of corps like rice, tea, olive. Considering this facts, environmental protection of this area must be priority for national government. However waste management instruction have been ratified in Iran, there isn’t any specific...

The ultimate responsibility for the collection and disposal of municipal solid waste rests with local government. As regional planning developed, more counties and states assumed some or all of this re­ sponsibility. The Federal Government has not, to date, provided the broad financial support for solid waste systems now available for municipal waste water systems. Their participation has been ...

The paper summarises the main results gathered from two extensive applications of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) to the integrated municipal solid waste management systems of Torino and Cuneo Districts in northern Italy. Scenarios with substantial differences in terms of amount of waste, percentage of SC and strategies for the disposal of residual waste are used in order to discuss on strategies t...

A study was conducted among 151 municipal workers (72 solid-waste workers, and 79 workers not exposed to waste). Total antibodies against Hepatitis A virus (HAV) were measured, and socio-demographic information was collected using a self-administered questionnaire. Univariate analysis has shown that occupational exposure to waste, age, duration of employment and educational status were signific...

This paper investigates the willingness to pay for an improved waste management in Silchar municipal area under Cachar district in Assam. On an average, 63% of the households are willing to pay for improved waste management. It is therefore apparent that Silchar residents in general regard waste management as an environmental service as they are willing to pay for its provision. An open ended c...

municipal solid waste management (mswm) has become the greatest problem facing many urban and semi-urban areas in nigeria, although to varying degrees. this study suggests the various steps and approaches to combat the menace in akure in the southwest zone of nigeria. such approaches include creation of special agencies for the collection, recycling and conversion of municipal solid waste (msw)...

Anaerobic digestion of source-separated municipal organic waste is considered feasible in Denmark. The limited hydraulic retention in the biogas reactor (typically 15 d) does not allow full degradation of the organic waste. Storage of anaerobically digested municipal organic waste can therefore be a source of methane (CH4) emission that may contribute significantly to the potential global warmi...

A waste Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) tool, called Waste and Resources Assessment Tool for the Environment (WRATE) has been developed on the behalf of the Environment Agency for England and Wales, Scottish Environment Protection Agency and Department of Environment, Northern Ireland. This tool provides life cycle information to municipal authorities, central government and other stakeholders invo...

Waste disposal is one of the pressing problems.Millions of tons of municipal solid waste, hazardous/industrial wastes and agricultural wastes are handled daily throughout municipal areas. Each municipality confronts great challenges in disposing of its wastes in an efficient, cost effective and environmentally safe manner.Landfills in metropolitan areas are becoming full, and new ones are more ...