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An overview of current household waste management in Indonesia: development of a new integrated strategy
One of the main problems of current socio–economic activities in Indonesia is how to deal with the increasing amounts of household waste generated in urban areas. This paper discusses the main issues of the current management of household waste in Indonesia and analyses its socio–economic factors as well as introduces a new strategy to utilise and reduce household waste for current and future ...
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Investigation of the household hazardous waste stream in a Hellenic municipality
Hazardous waste (HW) in small quantities generated by households is often dumped into the mixed household waste. A variety of chemicals was recorded during a field research presented in the present paper. Aspects analysed in this work contribute to the categorisation of household hazardous waste (HHW) and quantification of them since lack of generation and composition data was noted in Greece. ...
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Estimating educational effects in waste management services
Recently, the user charge policy for household waste is widely introduced in Japan. The user charge can achieve the reduction of waste disposal through the two paths; one is the price mechanisms and the other is an educational effect. In this paper, we have evaluated the emission reduction effects of the each path by using the demand function of a household for waste management service which is ...
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Sustainable household waste management improvement in Dhaka city, Bangladesh
The objective of this study is to conduct an economic study to identify the factors which affect households' solid waste generation, households' willingness to pay to improve the solid waste management and households' recycling behaviour in Dhaka City. The results showed that the waste generation of the households in Dhaka City was significantly affected by household size, income and concern ...
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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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A Successful Pilot Project of Decentralized Household Waste Management in Brazil
Present municipalwaste management paradigms in Brazil do not allowfor flexible approaches to solving an extremely dynamic problem. This paper discusses the basic flaws in present thinking models of residents and municipal administrators. Fundamental arguments presented on municipal solid waste relate to nomenclature, destinations, definitions, logistics, social dynamics, social assistance ...
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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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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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Sustainability-based Decision-Support System for solid waste management
Rapid growth in population and urbanisation coupled with diminishing land availability has aggravated the problems of solid waste management. As partial solution to this problem, there has been an increase in the number and complexity of integrated waste management alternatives that divert materials from the landfill including programmes for waste reduction, recycling, backyard composting and ...
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Waste reduction strategies for improved management of household solid waste in Jamaica
Three waste reduction strategies were studied by a survey in the St. Ann's Parish located in the small-island developing nation of Jamaica. Factors designated as incentives to waste reduction existed primarily at the household level, specifically waste segregation, household education, environmental concern and knowledge; whereas, the barriers existed primarily at the national or regional levels, ...
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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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Household waste recovery and recycling: a case study of Kigoma-Ujiji, Tanzania
Management of waste in most developing countries has become important for most of the cities as they try to curb and control city growth and urbanisation. The general norm where waste management had been the sole duty of municipalities has proved not to work due to lack of funds, public participation, political will and awareness. This paper looks at the general problems faced in household waste ...
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Survey and evaluation of household solid waste generation and compositions in Kuwait
The objective of this study was to carry out a field survey of the solid waste generation profile in Kuwait. In addition, the paper examines the compatibility between household-estimated and landfill site-measured percent compositions of the daily solid waste. The true composition of daily household waste was determined via measurements of random waste trucks at the landfill sites. Hand sorting ...
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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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UK government not doing enough to raise awareness of recycling targets
A nationwide survey carried out on behalf of Riverside Waste Machinery has revealed that only 29.6% of respondents feel the Government is taking enough action to raise awareness about the UK’s waste and recycling targets. Passionate about the country’s ever-changing attitudes to waste management, Riverside managing director Chris Oldfield was keen to understand what the viewpoint was ...
By Untha UK Ltd
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Ways You Can Recycle When Working from Home
Before the Coronavirus Pandemic hit, doing our day job remotely from home was unheard of, unless it was special circumstances. Although some of us may have returned to the office, working from home for most people will become the new office. Ever since a lockdown was implemented in most parts of the world, waste collectors are overwhelmed with the huge influx of household waste as everyone is ...
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How to cooperate with Gain to make more money?
How to cooperate with Gain to make more money? To get acquainted with how to cooperate with Gain, be sure to read this article carefully. This collaboration has always been based on the growth of employees and the company. Income growth by making money, financial growth, educational growth and quality of life growth. Gain intends to always have a large number of partners. but how? Working at ...
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Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead awards waste and recycling services contract to Serco and Whitespace Work Software
Whitespace Work Software Ltd is delighted to announce it will be working with Serco Limited to support its Windsor and Maidenhead operations from October 2019. Over the eight-year contract, Whitespace will support Serco through its innovative Whitespace system which will help Serco provide efficient services to the residents of Windsor and Maidenhead. The Organisation The Royal Borough of ...
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WEEE!! Don’t bin It Recycle IT
Every year people buy thousands upon thousands of electrical equipment in the UK alone. Every year British people then throw away thousands of electrical items and why not. Since the introduction of the WEEE directive on 1 July 2007 home uses have been able to take their old electrical equipment to the local council house hold waste recycling centre for recycling. All county councils in the UK ...
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Mesophilic and thermophilic anaerobic digestion of source-sorted municipal solid waste
A change in existing collection systems for household waste is presently in progress in many Swedish municipalities. The objective is to separate the decomposable fraction from non-biodegradable waste in order to facilitate biological treatment and recycling of nutrients. The main reason for this development is the effort to replace landfilling of nutrient-rich, wet organic waste with sustainable ...
By ORBIT e.V.
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