BACKGROUND Environmental and health-related effects of solid waste material are considered worldwide problems. The aim of this study was to assess the volume and impact of Arab scientific output published in journals indexed in the Science Citation Index (SCI) on solid waste. METHODS We included all the documents within the SCI whose topic was solid waste from all previous years up to 31 Dece...

This paper presents a social efficiency analysis of mandatory deposits on beverage containers. Five kinds of resource effects are identified, evaluated and added up: (1) litter (both pickup and “eyesore” costs) ; (2) solid waste collection; (3) container costs; (4) production and distribution costs; and (5) consumer convenience. It is shown that the desirability, on efficiency grounds alone, of...

Municipal household solid waste (MHSW) has become a serious problem in China over the course of the last two decades, resulting in significant side effects to the environment. Therefore, effective management of MHSW has attracted wide attention from both researchers and practitioners. Separate collection, the first and crucial step to solve the MHSW problem, however, has not been thoroughly stu...

The understanding of long-term landfill settlement is important for landfill design and rehabilitation. However, suitable models that can consider both the mechanical and biodecomposition mechanisms in predicting the long-term landfill settlement are generally not available. In this paper, a model based on unsaturated consolidation theory and considering the biodegradation process is introduced...

At the present day in Russia the change of ferrous metals production technology results in the change of the chemical composition of solid waste from iron and steel works. Traditional approaches to waste recycling methods stop meeting the requirements of geoecological safety. The paper offers a methodology of usage of the ferrous industry waste taking into consideration a life cycle of the mate...

BACKGROUND Concern has been expressed in North Carolina that solid waste facilities may be disproportionately located in poor communities and in communities of color, that this represents an environmental injustice, and that solid waste facilities negatively impact the health of host communities. OBJECTIVE Our goal in this study was to conduct a statewide analysis of the location of solid was...

The main aims of solid waste management are to protect the environment and human health; and, to conserve natural resources. However, increasing consumption, environmental issues and resource depletion threaten its sustainability. Solid waste management policies usually fail to reduce consumption, decrease environmental impacts, conserve raw materials and develop sustainable products. These pro...

he United States is running out of T landftlls and that is where most trash, and thus most packaging 1 material, ends up. For example, we generate 180 million tons of solid waste per year, 70% of which goes into landfills. However, in the last 12 years, two-thirds of our landfills have been exhausted. The problem gained national attention in 1989 when a garbage barge from New York wandered acro...

Irrigated urban agriculture (UA), which has helped alleviate poverty and increase food security in rapidly urbanizing sub-Saharan Africa, may inadvertently support malaria vectors. Previous studies have not identified a variable distance effect on malaria prevalence from UA. This study examines the relationships between self-reported malaria information for 3,164 women surveyed in Accra, Ghana,...