waste management system Articles
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Effectiveness of packaging waste management systems in selected countries: an EEA pilot study
Packaging waste is an important and growing waste stream. The amended Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive has recently been adopted, and work is underway to develop EU thematic strategies on waste prevention and recycling and on the sustainable use and management of natural resources. The Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive (hereafter: packaging directive) is one of the few ...
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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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Current status of municipal solid waste management system in Chittagong, Bangladesh
This paper presents an overview of MSW management in Chittagong, the second largest city of Bangladesh. The total MSW generation in Chittagong increased steadily from 538 tons/day in 1999 to 984 tons/day in 2005 and 1890 tons/ day in 2009. MSW collection coverage of Chittagong City Corporation increased from 45% in 1999 to 64% in 2008 and almost 70% in 2009. Approximately 72% (952 tons) of the ...
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GIS-based modelling for the estimation of municipal solid waste generation and collection
In the present paper, an innovative model for the estimation of municipal solid waste generation and collection is proposed. This model is part of an extended solid waste management system and uses a spatial Geodatabase, integrated in a GIS environment. It takes into consideration several parameters of waste generation, such as population density, commercial activities, road characteristics and ...
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Developing and evaluating new policy instruments for sustainable waste management
The aim of this paper is to suggest a number of interesting policy instruments that can make the Swedish waste management system more sustainable. Approximately 60 suggestions for policy instruments were gathered through a number of workshops with stakeholders. These were further prioritised in a workshop with stakeholders and by the research team resulting in a list of 15 instruments: ...
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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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Ile d’Molene - Case Study
Ile d’Molene is a small Island outside the northwest coast of France, with approximately 200 habitants, that have solved their waste managment with the baling system from Flexus Balasystem. A truck collects the waste at the houses and discharge the waste directly into the baling plant where the waste is compressed and baled into sealed bales. The bales is stored and when the storage is ...
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Automating waste logistics in manufacturing - Sensoneo & Sigfox
Enabling “Just-in-Time” waste collection in production halls Automating route scheduling to minimize human tasks and drive efficiency Calculating the fastest routes on factory floor plans to collect only reported bins Sensoneo, the provider of enterprise-grade smart waste management solutions, has partnered with Sigfox Germany to introduce an end-to-end solution for monitoring ...
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A comprehensive evaluation of solid waste management in Kuwait
One of the major problems facing a nation is the need for the proper disposal of the voluminous of solid waste generated every year. Therefore, recent literature on solid waste management in Kuwait has been reviewed and data analysed on the total amount of solid waste generated in Kuwait. In addition, industrial solid waste, construction and demolition waste, and pharmaceutical waste are ...
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Developing and evaluating new policy instruments for sustainable waste management
The aim of this paper is to suggest a number of interesting policy instruments that can make the Swedish waste management system more sustainable. Approximately 60 suggestions for policy instruments were gathered through a number of workshops with stakeholders. These were further prioritised in a workshop with stakeholders and by the research team resulting in a list of 15 instruments: ...
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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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Studying the applicability of variable rate pricing in solid waste management in Greece
This paper presents some preliminary, qualitative results on the applicability of the implementation of a waste management and pricing system based on "Pay As You Throw" (PAYT) in Greece. PAYT is described and both its aims and potential benefits and problems are presented. Next, the waste charging and billing systems are studied. Finally, a possible implementation scheme is proposed for PAYT to ...
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A decision support system for waste collection management and its potential improvement with Radio–Frequency Identification Technology (RFID)
Due to vigorous globalisation and product proliferation in recent years, more waste has been produced by the soaring manufacturing activities. This has contributed to the significant need for an efficient waste management system to ensure, with all efforts, the waste is properly treated for recycling or disposed. This paper presents a Decision Support System (DSS) framework, based on Constraint ...
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What To Consider In Rice Hull Carbonizer
If you are looking for a way to get charcoal from rice hulls you might need to buy a rice hull carbonizer. This machine turns rice hulls into charcoal fast. You end up getting high-quality charcoal out of the machine and it can be used in a variety of ways. The charcoal could be sold and it could also be useful for a variety of things The charcoal is incredibly easy to use so you get premium ...
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Solid waste routing
In today’s struggling economy we are all forced to look at ways to reduce expenses. This applies to private and public operations equally. For the private operation, priorities are placed on maintaining profits—a difficult task in a competitive industry. Raising rates is typically met with resistance from customers, as well as opens a door for competitors to move in. For the public ...
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June 2005 - Regulatory Update
The Onyx Environmental Services - Environmental, Health, Safety, and Transportation department is pleased to present the Monthly Regulatory Update. The update contains a brief summary of the proposed and final rules from EPA, OSHA, and DOT published in the Federal Register in the past calendar month. If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions regarding the Monthly Regulatory Updates, ...
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Production of methane gas from organic fraction municipal solid waste (OFMSW) via anaerobic process: application methodology for the Malaysian condition
Solid waste management in Malaysia is confronted with many problems, including low collection coverage, irregular collection services, inadequate equipment used for waste collection, crude open dumping and burning without air and water pollution control systems, inadequate legal provisions and resource constraints. These problems have various effects on the development of the solid waste ...
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Exploring Solid Waste Management Challenges in Zimbabwe: A Case Study
Zimbabwe, like most other developing countries, is facing enormous and growing solid waste management challenges due to rapid urbanisation and the continued use of the traditional waste generation and refuse collection and disposal models. Developed countries have moved from the same traditional refuse collection and disposal regimes and are using the more efficient integrated solid waste ...
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Biological recycling of wastes in France: from crisis to new management principles and rules
In 1992, the context of waste management in France has changed with the publication of a second law that defined the framework of the new public national policy. This law has opened a ten years transition plan, but two main points have been modified. First, the place of landfilling has moved from a status of treatment process in competition with incineration or composting to the role of storage ...
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Mercury Emissions From The Disposal of Fluorescent Lamps
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is making available to the public a study containing information relating to its Proposed Rule addressing the management of mercury-containing lamps under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act Subtitle C hazardous waste management system published in the Federal Register on July 27, 1994, 59 FR 39288. The study consists of an electronic model and ...
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