solid municipal waste Articles
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The environmental impact of people-oriented MSW management
The author's research and practical experience with municipal solid waste management have shown the urgent need for new thinking models. Present paradigms are stalemate. They do not allow for flexible approaches to solving an extremely dynamic problem. This paper discusses the basic flaws in present thinking models of residents, municipal administrators and even scholars. Fundamental arguments ...
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Prioritising municipal solid waste management factors in India using fuzzy analytic hierarchy process
Studies have shown that even elaborate Municipal Solid Waste Management (MSWM) schemes turn futile. Hence, people involved in MSWM should design the schemes carefully by taking in account the correct factors and giving them due weightage. Consequently, identifying the MSWM factors and their significance becomes an essential and crucial process for a waste management scheme to be environmentally ...
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Optimisation of solid waste collection routes using Premium Solver Platform
This study illustrates the application of Premium Solver Platform software to optimise tours for the collection of municipal solid waste. Data required for optimisation was obtained from the municipal solid waste management authority, field studies and digitised map of a study area. Thereafter the optimisation problem was formulated as a travelling salesman problem (TSP) on Microsoft Excel ...
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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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What machine can we use to dispose of municipal solid waste (msw) properly?
With the development of world industrialization and the improvement of people's production and living standard, a large amount of municipal garbage(MSW) is produced. So what kind of machine can properly handle such municipal waste (MSW)? Let me introduce it to you step by step. As we all know that there are a lot of impurities in municipal solid waste, and if customers just receive government ...
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Maine Embraces Fiberight’s Waste Processing Technology
The Coastal Resources of Maine (CRM) facility is the practical application of over a decade of work by Fiberight scientists and engineers to design, build, test and deliver municipal solid waste processing solutions that meet current market demands to increase recycling rates, achieve complete utilization of organics and lower carbon outputs. This new facility, currently under construction in ...
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Co–processing waste materials in cement production: experience from the past and future perspectives
The neglected, municipal solid waste management has become an important issue for national and local governments in developing countries in recent times, not only because of the tremendous rise of wastes but also of the resultant environmental degradation and rising public concern. Co–processing of waste in cement plants has been used as a treatment option for certain waste material in Europe, ...
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Application of FCE?AHP method for multi-criteria decision-making of municipal solid waste management alternatives: a case study in the Dalian Development Zone of China
Because of rapid economic and population growth as well as change in consumption patterns in last decades, municipal solid waste management (MSWM) has become an important strategic decision so that the evaluation and assessment process is attached a prime concern. Avoiding the injustice which may be caused by subjective factors, this paper sets up a hybrid model of fuzzy comprehensive evaluation ...
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New Single Shaft Series
SatrindTech S.r.l. has manufactured the new serie of Single Shaft shredders. From plastic to municipal solid waste: the perfect solution. Designed to treat different types of materials, the Single Shaft Shredders are customized to ensure the maximum production capacity. A strong structure ensures long life, reaffirming the reliability of the SatrindTech machines. Shafts complete with ...
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Municipal Solid Waste Management Market in the U.S. to cross $25bn by 2024
The U.S. Municipal Solid Waste Management Market is set to grow from its current market value of more than $17 billion to over $25 billion by 2024; as reported in the latest study by Global Market Insights, Inc. Increasing population on account of significant surge in the number of foreign immigrants will stimulate the municipal solid waste management market. According to the EPA from 1960-2016, ...
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Municipal Solid Waste Management and community awareness and involvement in management practices: an overview and a case study from Gondar town of Ethiopia
An assessment was carried out on management practices for Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) generated in Gondar town of Ethiopia. Efficiency and effectiveness of waste collection and disposal by municipality and different methods adopted for waste disposal by residents were studied to find a suitable, effective and feasible method of MSW disposal. The data about awareness, attitude and involvement of ...
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Waste trade market in the city of Bhopal, India: a case study on recycled MSW
This paper investigates the Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) trade market in the city of Bhopal, India, and presents results of field surveys conducted to determine the movement of MSW through a succession of ragpickers and traders to its ultimate destination of Recycling-Units. This waste-trade is carried out through a hierarchy of waste-dealers who deal in increasing waste specificities such that ...
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Household Waste Shredder Machine
In the household waste management, an crucial step in the process, prior to the actual incineration, is the shredding of the waste to a defined size to ensure that the incineration is efficient. Powerful household waste shredders are manufactured by AIShred for household waste size reduce. Such as carpet shredding, mattress shredding, bulky waste shredding, etc. AIShred two -shaft and ...
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Suhas Dixit`s Address at 8th Flexible Packaging Global Summit-2019
On 22nd and 23rd of August, Suhas Dixit, Director of APChemi (Agile Process Chemicals LLP delivered a keynote speech on "Chemical Recycling of Plastic Waste". All of us share a common vision to see a world: where people rightfully respect plastics as a sustainable, well-engineered, environment-friendly & circular-economy product for the modern society. Let’s not ban single-use ...
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Eco-fuel briquettes for sustainable development
Raw coal is still burnt as fuel in many developing countries. Besides pollution from coal combustion, coal briquettes always face problems during transportation and storage because they are friable and susceptible to moisture. On the other hand, plastic waste in municipal solid waste is also a big problem which many countries are facing. Since synthetic plastics originate from petroleum products, ...
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Modified landfill design for sustainable waste management
Waste management, being one of the most important aspects of urban development, is gaining importance among developing nations. Landfills, which were initiated for hazardous waste management and subsequently transformed into sanitary landfills, have been the most widely adapted practice for municipal solid waste management worldwide. However, the conventional design of landfills not only fails to ...
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Multiple regression analysis for the estimation of energy content of municipal solid waste
A regression equation is proposed to predict the Higher Heating Value (HHV) of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) from the waste data of 86 cities of 35 countries. A mathematical model is developed, by using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS-10.0), to correlate the energy content of waste with the variables derived from its physical composition. Performance of the proposed multiple ...
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Global warming potential of waste management options: case study of Delhi
Municipal solid waste in developing nations like India is an area of major concern. The concerns associated with waste management are not only public health and safety but also for sustainable development. Life cycle assessment (LCA) can be applied to assess the environmental sustainability of waste management systems. In the present study, global warming potential of various municipal waste ...
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Application of Geographical Information System (GIS) in optimisation of waste collection for Alandur Municipality in South Chennai, India
The population outburst in urban areas had resulted in a substantial increase in the generation of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) and challenged with waste management. Issam et al. (2007) pointed out that most of the cities which is burning the waste in open dumps lacks in proper health and safety requirements. Alandur which is under Alandur Municipal Corporation (AMC) generate nearly 80 MT MSW ...
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Towards municipal solid waste source separation at the household level in Accra, Ghana
Municipal solid waste source separation at the household level has been endorsed as the way forward by all stakeholders in the waste management sector in Ghana. The study using waste stream analyses and laboratory investigations assesses the feasibility of this intervention in the Accra Metropolitan Area which has been divided into three income zones. The mean waste percentage composition was ...
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