paper waste management Articles
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Industrial symbiosis for more sustainable, localised industrial systems
Regionally distributed, small-scale production units prioritising the use of local resources and markets are likely to make a more solid contribution to regional sustainability than their centralised large-scale counterparts. We argue that the concept of Industrial Symbiosis (IS) can be refocused to support the development of such systems. To be useful in this way, better integration of ...
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What a waste: solid waste management in Asia
As urbanisation and economic development increases in Asia, nowhere is the impact more obvious than in society’s “detritus” or solid waste. Today, the urban areas of Asia produce about 760,000 tonnes of municipal solid waste (MSW) per day, or approximately 2.7 million m3 per day. In 2025, this figure will increase to 1.8 million tonnes of waste per day, or 5.2 million m3 per day. These estimates ...
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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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Measuring and interpreting gas flow from landfill boreholes case study
Current landfill gas measurement practice for measuring the gas composition is well understood, and there are standard procedures and instruments available to analyse the gas. It is also current recognised practice to measure the gas 'flow' from boreholes to monitor the production of gas in a landfill site. If care is taken to make the measurement in the same way each time, changes in the 'flow' ...
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20 ways to manage municipal waste more effectively in 2020
2020 marks the start of a new year and a new decade. It’s a great opportunity for local authorities to assess how well your essential services are functioning, in order to put new initiatives in place to innovate your services over the next 10 years. If you’re involved in waste management, we’ve put together 20 top tips to help you look at your department with fresh eyes, ...
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Optimization model for integrated municipal solid waste management in Mumbai, India
Mumbai, the largest metropolitan city in India, generated 6,256 tons of waste per day in 2001. It is the responsibility of the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) to provide Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) management services; however, the MCGM is not able to handle the increasing quantity of waste. As a result, waste litters all over the place giving rise to health and environmental ...
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Marketisation of public services in China: reforming the provision of solid waste services in Guangzhou's environmental sector
Since Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) collection and disposal has been a free public service in many Chinese cities, many local governments in China are facing the problem of insufficient funding. A number of municipal authorities in China have adopted marketisation (the Chinese equivalence for privatisation) to relieve local governments' financial burdens in solid waste management. This paper will ...
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Compliance with the RMP Rule at a Waste Management Facility
A waste management facility typically treats, stores, and disposes chemical wastes that contain chemicals listed under 40 CFR §68.130. After a thorough evaluation of the existing chemical inventories, it is determined that this facility is not subject to the Risk Management Program rule based on the exemptions given in the rule for the de minimis threshold quantities. Due to the uncertainties of ...
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Community-based waste management initiative: case study from Harare, Zimbabwe
Management of municipal solid waste remains a challenge for many countries south of African Sahara. This is attributed to inadequate local authority capacity to handle waste, rapid urbanisation, poor legislation and lack of public concern. Most of the waste generated is discarded into the surrounding environment causing significant health hazards. In Epworth, Zimbabwe a community-based group ...
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`Compliance with the RMP Rule at a Waste Management Facility,` presented at the 1999 AWMA BIF Conference
Abstract A waste management facility typically treats, stores, and disposes chemical wastes that contain chemicals listed under 40 CFR §68.130. After a thorough evaluation of the existing chemical inventories, it is determined that this facility is not subject to the Risk Management Program rule based on the exemptions given in the rule for the de minimis threshold quantities. Due to the ...
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Industrial ecology and waste management: from theories to applications
The paper describes the conceptual framework of the Waste Management Theory (WMT). WMT is a unified body of knowledge about waste and waste management, founded on the expectation that waste management is to prevent waste to cause harm to human health and the environment. The intersection of WMT with Industrial Ecology (IE) is presented and the mutual benefits of developing WMT alongside IE are ...
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Assessment of waste management practices in sub-Saharan Africa
This paper presents an overview of the waste management systems in sub-Saharan Africa, with a focus on the West African nations in the region. It must be acknowledged that, owing to the lack of a comprehensive database on waste generation for the region, the information provided is neither complete nor exhaustive. Nonetheless, initial site reconnaissance and a survey of available databases for ...
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The role of an association of private sector service providers in capacity development
In recent years there had been a tremendous improvement in the solid waste management industry in Lagos, Nigeria when compared with the myriad of problems facing the industry a few years ago. The improved service delivery in the industry came as a result of the restructuring of Lagos State Waste Management Authority (LAWMA) – a government owned agency charged with the responsibility of ...
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Waste management policy revisions: lessons learned from the Katrina disaster
The main objective of this paper is to identify debris and waste management policies that need to be changed based on the lessons learned from Hurricane Katrina. Policy issues addressed include fragmented jurisdictional problems, issues related to types of debris, burning of house hold debris, wood infestation with Formosan termites and banning of yard wastes from landfills. Current practices and ...
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E-waste vis-à-vis human health and environment
The social, economic and technological growth of a developing society has resulted in rapid product obsolescence which in turn has become a new environmental challenge – i.e., ‘electronics waste’ (e-waste). Electronic waste has not been a problem as long as there were a few computers or other electronic devices on earth. With the increasing use of computers/electronic devices, our planet has ...
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Paper and Cardboard - Recovery or Disposal?
To provide a solid basis for policies and policymakingin the field of waste management, the environmental and economic impacts causedby different waste treatment options should be examined. In recent years, a large number of studies comparing recycling with recovery or final disposal have been published, which are based on life cycle assessment (LCA) and cost-benefit analysis (CBA). To the ...
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