solid municipal waste Articles
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Unconventional fuels are the future of the waste industry
The concept of Waste-to-Energy (WtE) isn’t a new one – it’s been around for many years – but with an increasing focus on the environmental agenda from the Government and businesses, 2019 has been an important time for innovations in this arena. Our MD, Simon Webb, recently spoke to The Energy-from-Waste Network about the role alternative fuels played in 2019 and their ...
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How are landfills benefiting from incorporating community engagement into their odour management strategies? Let’s find out.
First, let’s address some well-established facts related to solid waste management and odour. s widely known that waste generation is increasing at astronomical rates worldwide. Populations are growing closer to waste management operations that were previously isolated. Estimates of the next few decades show no indication of municipal solid waste generation slowing down. By 2050 ...
By Envirosuite
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Eppic Index 4Q 2020 Update
After several redirections, changes and delays we have now posted our 2020 articles and paper titles. This delayed content and posting reflect conferences that have been canceled (or rescheduled) due to the Coronavirus Pandemic. Losses in conferences and their subsequent paper titles were offset by added publications - along with Special Additions – resulting in total article and paper ...
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Study on Hazardous Household Waste with a main Emphasis on Hazardous Chemicals
Introduction The aim of this study is to evaluate national experiences of the management of hazardous products likely to become hazardous household waste (HHW), and to make proposals for strategies for the appropriate management of such products within a lifecycle perspective. The study covers the fifteen Member States and two Accession Countries, namely Hungary and Romania. The data available ...
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Waste Effluent Sludge Drying and Incineration
With the continuous advancement of urbanization, the effectiveness of sewage treatment plants in treating sewage has increased year by year, but the amount of sewage treatment has also continued to increase, resulting in an upward trend in the amount of remaining sludge. The sludge produced after wastewater treatment contains some toxic substances that are not easily degraded, heavy metals, etc., ...
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Reputation breeds success - Case Study
Recycling areas: Electronic Waste (WEEE) Company name: Francisco Alberich S.A. Located: Castellbisal (Barcelona) and La Llagosta (Barcelona), Spain Founded: 1900 Employees: 100 Francisco Alberich S.A. is a Spanish scrap dealer mainly active within ferrous and non-ferrous scrap. The company is active within industrial demolition, scrap metal, management and recovery of waste and ...
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What Does Landfill Liners Cost?
With the progress of industrialization and the improvement of people’s living standards, population explosion has become one of the most important problems on earth. In the past years, the earth’s population has continued to grow, and now it has exceeded 7 billion. With the rapid increase of population and the advent of industrial society, 7 billion people on the earth consume a lot ...
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Challenges at MSW Landfill Sites
Covering the day’s trash at the landfill Today’s municipal solid waste (MSW) landfills are much more than places to dump household trash. They’re engineered facilities that are designed to hold and isolate the trash from the environment and are governed by both federal and state regulations. Landfill designers and operators face two main challenges to the integrity of ...
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Cost-Effective Hydrogen Sulfide Treatment Strategies for Commercial Landfill Gas Recovery: Role of Increasing C&D (Construction and Demolition) Waste
Documento sin título There are more than 350 commercial landfill gas recovery operations in the U.S. which generate electricity on-site, supply industrial gas-fired boilers, or produce substitute natural gas fuels such as CNG. Historically, very few have required H2S treatment. However, many landfills are now accepting large quantities of construction and demolition (C&D) ...
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Changing Biosolid Technology to Safely Remove PFAS Chemicals
Per and Polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are ubiquitous. Known as “forever chemicals,” the man-made carbon-fluorine bond is one of the strongest bonds found in nature. PFAS is fast to build up in humans, animals and the environment and very difficult to break down. These substances were developed in the 1940s and 50s and applied to products that range from cookware to dental ...
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Final CISWI rule
On March 21, 2011, in parallel with publication of the Boiler National Emission Standard for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP) rules and the Non-Hazardous Secondary Material (NHSM) rule, EPA promulgated the final updates to the New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) and Emission Guidelines (EG) for Existing CISWI Units, collectively referred to as the “2011 CISWI Rules.”1 The 2011 ...
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Environmental Situation in Africa
Abstract Africa The economic and social needs of Africa depends more on its environmental resources but these natural resources are seriously declining and that is really effecting the entire region. Sustainable development in this rapidly changing region has become an imperative, and must take place in the complex context of a diverse and changing ecosystem, political transition and evolution ...
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