city waste management Articles
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Strategies For Starting A Tire Recycling Business
If you are intending to start out your own tire recycling business, there are certain things you have to do before investing a substantial amount of money in this particular project. Thankfully, you are on the right track when you are looking at this article therefore you are willing to know what you need to do to be able to start up a tire recycling business. The good news is that the Internet ...
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How Smart Waste Fits in UN Sustainable Development Goals? Promoting Health.
The Sustainable Development Goals are the blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all. They address the global challenges we face: poverty, inequality, climate change, environmental degradation, peace and justice. Sensoneo facilitates a positive change in the waste industry helping us all achieve Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.Sensoneo ensures healthy lives and ...
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Making India`s waste streams sustainable
MIT researchers are developing a decision-support tool to help cities in India sustainably manage the societal and environmental impacts of their waste. The massive Deonar dumping ground in Mumbai has become the most visible emblem of an increasingly serious nationwide problem for India: what to do with its trash. Deonar’s towers of garbage are tall enough that there are concerns they ...
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STP Odour Monitoring in Palava - Case Study
Overview To meet the aim of providing a healthier lifestyle to Palava city’s citizens, Oizom installed Odosense near STPs & ETPs of the city. This solution enabled the maintenance and cleaning crew to track the odour concentration from these plants in real-time and take corrective measures for its control. The inconvenience caused due to odour dispersion in the Palava Campus ...
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Bratislava launches large-scale smart waste management deployment
Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia, in cooperation with the technology company Sensoneo, has announced the launch of a project targeted at waste digitalization and efficient waste collection. The project is supported by a grant from the European Innovation Council, which Sensoneo received in the summer of 2020 for the large-scale deployment of its solution to demonstrate its environmental and ...
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Critical analysis of existing solid waste management practices towards a sustainable solution in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
This study critically examines the existing solid waste management in the city of Addis Ababa using data obtained from sampled households. The findings show that Addis Ababa city generates an average of 0.37 kg of household solid waste per capita per day. The generation of plastics bags and bottles is high (36%), followed by food wastes (28%) and paper and cardboard (21%), bottle (6%) and ...
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Views and attitudes of Burgas’s residents (Bulgaria) for paper recycling
The present study aims to examine the views and attitudes of Burgas’ residents in Bulgaria. The research was carried out with the help of structured questionnaire; and the method of personal interview was used. In particular, it explores the views and attitudes of residents of Burgas on recycling, their views and attitudes on the cleanliness and waste management in the city and their knowledge ...
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Food Waste Management: A MASSIVE Growth Opportunity in China
With China’s growing number of urban consumers, more and more pressure is being placed on system to account for the outputs of cities, particularly on its food systems. One of growing concerns is the issue of managing the sizeable amount of food waste that is coming from restaurants, canteens, and households. It is a concern that is increasingly strained by the poor waste management ...
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GTI helps keep Kamloops beautiful - case study
The City of Kamloops is located in the interior of British Columbia, Canada’s westernmost province. As part of Kamloops’ Liquid Waste Management Plan, the city was seeking opportunities to use its wastewater as a resource, rather than treat it solely as waste. One method was to capture methane gas (biogas) produced from the anaerobic treatment of wastewater and use it to generate ...
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A Classic Case of Paper Mill Dealing with Paper Mill Waste! Solid Recovered Fuel (SRF) Preparation Technology
As one of the most critical industries in the world, paper mills supply a variety of products to five billion people, while also producing a large amount of waste. Statistics show that an annual output of 1.5 million tons of recycled paper production factory has more than 180,000 tons of paper mill waste per year. How should paper mills deal with this paper mill waste in the face of such a large ...
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Municipal solid waste management
Management of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) is one of the most basic obligatory functions of the Urban Local Bodies. In most of the cities, however, the standard of waste management needs improvement. The environmental and health hazards caused by the unsanitary conditions in the cities were epitomised by the episode of plague in Surat in 1994. That triggered public interest litigation in the ...
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Wembley City - case study
Wembley City is a development by Quintain Estate and Development PLC of 85 aces of land surrounding the new national stadium. The development will comprise of 4,200 flats, a designer outlet shopping facility, a new Hilton hotel plus retail, leisure and entertainment venues. The waste handling at Wembley is an important part of the infrastructure of the development. The main reason the Envac ...
By Envac AB
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Central Africa’s Waste Fight, Part 2
“In crowded internally displaced camps, it is crucial to prevent diseases and epidemic outbreaks. In 2016, 152 000 people benefited from improved access to sanitation through latrines construction and waste management systems.” European Union Review 2017. This is just the tip of the iceberg – in a region that’s been decimated by war and violence over the past decades, ...
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GHG emissions: an assessment at municipal solid waste disposal site in Indore, India
After ratifying the Kyoto protocol the assessment of anthropogenic greenhouse gases (GHG) inventories has become crucial for India. Municipal solid waste management system for city of Indore, India, has been evaluated for GHG emissions over a period of 41 years. Corresponding assessment of CO2, methane and N2O has been done on the basis of waste quantity and composition assessed for various waste ...
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Municipal solid waste management in Jodhpur city, Rajasthan (India) - current status
Jodhpur city is the second largest city of Rajasthan State, having population of about 1,077,717 and an area of 232 sq km. The city generates around 380 t/d of municipal solid waste (MSW). With the increase in population, urbanisation and industrialisation, the problems of handling MSW have significantly increased in the past few years. There is no arrangement for segregation of waste at source. ...
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Evaluating financial aspects of municipal solid waste management in Mysore City, India
Majority of waste management plans are severely constrained by the lack of resources to finance these services. In developing countries, collection and transportation of waste are the most costly Solid Waste Management (SWM) activities. Safe disposal invariably receives less attention. Mysore City, one of the largest cities of Karnataka (India) with a population of around 0.8 million, is facing ...
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Talking Trash: The world`s waste management problem
Trash is a pervasive but unnoticed part of our lives. The great irony of waste management is that even the most efficient and well-run waste collection programs remain out of sight, ignored by the public that they serve. Only with failure does the omnipresence of trash really come to light. Today, many nations face a looming waste management crisis, as their landfills reach capacity and continue ...
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PEL Installs BB06 Waste Glass Bottle Crusher in Prestigious Shelbourne Hotel.
PEL Waste Reduction Equipment installs BB06 glass bottle crusher in the prestigious Shelbourne Hotel on Dublin’s St Stephens Green. The luxurious 5-star Shelbourne Hotel in Dublin, part of the Marriot Hotel Group offers 265 rooms including 19 suites, ten meeting rooms, a fitness club and spa. The hotel is located on the north side of St Stephens Green and as with most city centre hotels; ...
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Sierra Leone: Turning Bags to Bricks
Alfred Maada Fobay is the Waste Technician at Welthungerhilfe, an organisation which aims to improve waste management in cities through institutional, infrastructure development and capacity building measures. In this guest blog Mr Fobay presents how teachers, students, and parents in the city of Bo in Sierra Leone have been manufacturing eco-bricks using collected single use plastics. Bo is ...
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Trash Bin Installation 101: Important Questions to Ask (Part 1)
This is a question that often crosses the minds of those who oversee waste management for cities and locations like amusement parks, universities, shopping malls, and airports. Many municipalities and businesses have reached the conclusion that there is no answer, and many will make their decision reactively based on complaints. That is, they install more bins when there are numerous complaints ...
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