Information on the type and amount of hazardous and toxic waste is required to develop a meaningful strategy and estimate a realistic cost for clean up of the Sydney Tar Pond site which is located on Cape Breton, in the province of Nova Scotia, Canada. The site covers the area of the decommissioned Sysco (Sydney Steel Corporation) plant. The materials of concern include BTEX (benzene, toluene, ...

Electronic waste (e-waste) is the fastest growing type of solid waste because of the continual improvement of electrical and electronic equipment. The e-waste recycling business is a large and rapidly consolidating business in all areas of the developed world (US Environmental Protection Agency 2011). The recovery of precious metals, such as copper, gold, silver, and palladium, is the incentive...

In this Era of globalization when GDP of most of the countries are spending on an average 8% of the economy on infrastructure and when we see around us about the term infrastructure mostly we see the huge contribution of concrete in it; in addition to this three important terms are named as “Quality, Quantity and Economy”. There is a deadly race among the nations of various parts of the globe t...

Introduction: Waste processing in Final Disposal Sites (FDS) Indonesia is still dominated by open dumping. This condition causes health and environmental problems inhibits the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 2030. biomass that can be converted into electrical energy through Waste-to-Energy Plant (WtE Plant) installation. article aimed to illustrate potential WtE FDS supporti...

Sewage sludge is an inevitable byproduct produced in wastewater treatment. Reusing nutrient-rich will diminish the amount of waste ending soil dumping areas and promote circular economy. However, during sewage treatment process, several potentially harmful organic chemicals are retained sludge, but proving safety processed its more extensive use agriculture landscaping. Environmental risk asses...

Medical establishments play important roles in different activities by using of modern technology to serve the humans and the environment through different departments in the establishment and its firms. Medical wastes are considered as a hazardous waste because they contain toxic materials, infectious, or non-infectious wastes and they are considered as a hazard to millions of patients, health...

Dumping syndrome is a commonly recognized complication after gastric and oesophageal surgery. It is characterized by postprandial early gastrointestinal and vasomotor symptoms followed by late hypoglycaemia. Early dumping symptoms include abdominal pain, bloating, nausea, vomiting, flushing, tachycardia and hypotension. Late dumping symptoms which occur 1–3 h after food are thought to be due to...

This study examines how the timing of waste disposal fee collection affects producer’s choice built-in product durability and social welfare in a durable-goods monopoly model. We categorize policies into two: advance (ADF) policy (DF) policy. show that DF has two opposing effects on durability. Firstly, gives producer an incentive to increase order delay households’ discount future payments (th...

Introduction: Nowadays, advancements in industries, technology and human welfare level have lead to accumulation of solid wastes and have endangered environmental health. Incorrect waste management intensifies this problem. Recycling and composting (transformation of organic waste to humus) are the most important ways in waste management. Health and safety of the compost is an important issue b...