Disasters can lead to a high risk of casualties and structural damages. Destructive disasters, such as earthquakes, may cause a great amount of disaster waste to be controlled. Reusing and recycling materials in the debris can decrease the need for re-construction resources. These reusable or recyclable materials can be processed in temporary storage sites like the ones suggested by the United ...

Technology progress is a cause of industrial hazardous wastes increasing in the whole world . Management of hazardous waste is a significant issue due to the imposed risk on environment and human life. This risk can be a result of location of undesirable facilities and also routing hazardous waste. In this paper a biobjective mixed integer programing model for location-routing industrial hazard...

The environmental impact caused by teaching and research with regard to chemical waste is of increasing concern, and attempts to solve the issue are being made. Education and research-related institutions, in most laboratory and non-laboratory activities, contribute to the generation of small quantities of waste, many of them highly toxic. Of this waste, some is listed by government agencies wh...

Since the late eighties pollution prevention or waste minimization has become a concept which is extensively used to influence the behavior of companies towards a more environmentally friendly direction. Environmental policy previously used to lead mainly to end-of-pipe solutions. Pollution prevention (policies) on the other hand aims at minimizing waste and emissions by reduction at the source...

Waste metals in the form of metal oxide (hydroxide) sludges are generated in significant amounts by the metal finishing industries, and their accumulations pose problems for disposal and challenges for recycle. The availability of technically feasible efficient separations of metals such as nickel, cobalt, chromium, cadmium, copper, tin, zinc, lead, manganese, molybdenum, and titanium from plat...

This article presents the use of the Simulated Annealing algorithm with a heuristic to solve the waste minimization problem in roll cutting programming, in this case, paper. Client orders, which vary in weight, width, and external and internal diameter, are fully satisfied. Several tests were performed with real data from a paper company in which an average of 30% waste reduction and 100% reduc...

In Ethiopia, the rapid expansion of construction sector has resulted in wastage materials that negatively affect environment, society, and economy. The reason is inefficient waste management strategies practiced projects. Hence, an adequate material strategy required. This study was attempt to identify key techniques can help minimize building Questionnaire surveys, interviews, reviews previous...