The U.S. generates more than 37 million metric tons of food waste each year, and over 95% of it is disposed of at U.S. landfills. This paper describes the development of a novel food waste collection kiosk and business model called “Greenbox” that will collect and store food waste from households and restaurants with incentives for user participation to spur food waste-to-energy production in a...

The excessive wastage of materials, improper management on site and low awareness of the need for waste reduction are common in the local construction sites in India. Today, in most European countries, it is economically feasible to recycle up to 80–90% of the total amount of construction waste and most demolition and recycling technologies are generally easy to implement and control (Lauritzen...

The German organic chemist Johann Peter Griess (1829–88), who first developed the diazotization of aryl amines (the key reaction in the synthesis of the azo dyes), and a major figure in the formation of the modern dye industry, worked for more than a quarter of a century at the brewery of Samuel Allsopp and Sons in Burton upon Trent, which, owing to the presence of several notable figures and a...

In a previous paper (1), the influence of some fifteen proteins on the reactivation of yeast invertase was described. Since certain proteins of a nonenzymatic nature partially inhibited the reactivation, it appeared interesting to study the effect of amino acids on the reactivation. The experimental details used in this investigation were the same as those previously described, except that the ...

Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions per person from urban waste management activities are greater in sub-Saharan African countries than in other developing countries, and increasing as the population becomes more urbanised (Couth and Trois, 2010). Waste from urban areas across Africa is essentially dumped on the ground with little or no control over the relative liquid and gaseous emissions. The Cle...

This paper reflects the existing management systems practiced in various areas of Nepal in managing solid waste and contains initiatives of municipalities; national and local NGOs/CBOs; public and private entities. This paper helps to transfer the lessons and existing practices regarding soild waste managment and encourages urban, peri urban and emerging towns for similar initiatives in urban s...

How Much Waste is Wasteful? Although medical and infectious wastes are often highlighted in evaluations of Hospital Solid Waste Composition a hospital’s waste stream, these hazardous wastes constitute only 15% of a hospital’s total waste generation. The remaining 85% of a hospital’s waste, which is Other 10% Wood 3% Glass 7% Plastics 15% Food 10% Metals 10% Paper 45% considered to be nonhazardo...

This paper seeks to describe the overall state of Rural Solid Waste Management (RSWM) in China in three main areas: waste collection services, waste transportation services and waste disposal services. Given China’s urbanization, industrialization, and the subsequent improvement of household living standards, the amount of solid waste generated in rural China has increased rapidly. Based on pri...

the main objective of this descriptive-survey research was to investigate the application of waste management operations in apple production in abhar county. the statistical population of the study consisted of 12971 apple growers of the two districts of markazi and soltanieh out of which 100 people were selected as sample using cochran formula. stratified proportionate random sampling techniqu...