organic waste composting Articles
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Organic waste in circulation -co-operation between university, practice and society in Sweden
A challenge for the future is to improve recirculation of organic waste, including its contents of nutrients, between urban and agricultural ecosystems. The main reason for developing recirculating systems is to conserve energy and nutrients. The aim is to enable production of high quality and quantity food and feed on a long-term basis, to develop safe and economically feasible systems, to ...
By ORBIT e.V.
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Organic Waste Disposal and Management
Why We Manage Food and Organic Waste? We are one of the top producers of waste in the world. With the amount of rubbish that we produce, it is necessary that we are aware of how to manage and dispose of it efficiently and responsibly. Organic waste should not be a source of environmental pollution that has to be gotten rid of by putting it in landfills or burned in incinerators, as this could ...
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Environmental evaluation of systems for the recovery of biogenic wastes
The recovery of waste materials is promoted by the German Waste Act 'Kreislaufwirtschafts- und Abfallgesetz'. It requires that among the recovery routes available for a specific waste category the priority has to be on those which are more environmentally compatible. As a restriction given by the law, only those recovery routes which are technically feasible and economically reasonable must be ...
By ORBIT e.V.
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Case study - Municipal Company of Waste Management Ltd - Recycling MRF with RDF production – Katowice, Poland
Customer The Municipal Company of Waste Management Ltd in Katowice provides a framework of service activities such as: The collection and transport of waste Selective collection and utilization of waste Composting organic waste All year round road maintenance Automotive diagnostics Requirements The requirements were to build a waste sorting plant on the basis of the existing ...
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Evaluating Citizen Attitudes and Participation in Solid Waste Management in Tehran, Iran
Recently, increasing attention has been paid to the environmental impact of solid waste in Iran. Consequently, solid waste management has become a remarkably important issue. Solid waste comprises a wide range of materials and comes from a variety of sources. Having a population of about 10 million (about 1/7 of Iran’s total population), Tehran is among the most populated capitals in the world. ...
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How does commercial composting work and how do I get started?
Composting in a residential environment is one thing-particularly if you live in a municipality that offers curbside pickup. In this context, a small group of people simply have to get in the habit of tossing food waste into an appropriate bin, and make sure that food waste is set out on the curb once a week. Composting in a commercial, educational or multi-residential setting, however, is quite ...
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Reducing food waste: How to make it work?
In 2022, nearly 800 million people faced hunger. This figure has been increasing slowly in the last decade and is likely to continue to rise. Meanwhile, an estimated 13 percent of food is lost as it moves along the supply chain from the producer to the consumer, with another 17 per cent lost at the retail and consumption level. So, tons and tons of edible food are not reaching people in need of ...
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Waste recovery and recycling: organic waste
In the circular economy, organic waste, which is an important component of both the total waste generated and the recycling and recovery targets, is collected and transformed into a compost and biogas, generating numerous environmental and social ...
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EU Confirms Disposal Ranking for Waste Burning
The European Commission has confirmed that, following a European court of justice ruling delivered in February, energy recovery from dedicated waste incinerators can no longer be counted towards waste recovery targets under the EU packaging directive. By extension, the same should logically apply also to the end-of-life vehicles (ELV) and waste electrical and electronic equipment (Weee) ...
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Biowaste collection in residential areas with dense population
Because of legal regulations in Germany the biological treatment of organic residues is becoming more and more important. Following the regulations of the Waste Avoidance, Recycling and Disposal Act (KrW-/AbfG) and the TASi (Technical Data Sheet of Urban Wastes) biowaste has to be collected and treated separately. The waste management objective of the separate collection and biological treatment ...
By ORBIT e.V.
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Solid Waste Management
Solid waste management is the process of collecting, storing, treating, and disposing of solid materials that are discarded by society. These materials include things like household waste, construction and demolition debris, and industrial waste. The goal of solid waste management is to reduce the negative impact of these materials on the environment and public health and to recover resources ...
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How Does Recycling Reduce Air Pollution
Recycling has a profound impact on reducing pollution levels. Using recycled materials instead of raw, new resources, we diminish the harmful emissions of extraction and manufacturing. For example, the mining and refining aluminium from bauxite ore is highly energy-intensive and results in significant greenhouse gas emissions. In contrast, recycling aluminium requires only 5% of the energy ...
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