Solid Waste Planning Articles & Analysis
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In 2016, the world generated 242 million tons of plastic waste, accounting for 12% of the total solid waste. The How Much Waste 2.0 report highlights that solid waste management is a critical, yet often overlooked, element of sustainable, healthy, and inclusive cities and communities. ...
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. ...
The resulting solutions obtained show that the proposed method can help decision-makers to provide scientific bases for water quantity and quality management and energy system planning, solid waste management and other environmental system problems. ...
In the present study, a multiple linear regression model and system dynamics model have been proposed for forecasting municipal solid waste quantity and composition respectively. The system dynamics model is based on the comparison of results obtained using logistics, sigmoidal and growth kinetics functions. ...
Simulation–Optimisation (SO) techniques, which incorporate inherent system uncertainties using probability distributions, have been used for optimal waste management planning. While SO can be applied to numerous stochastic problems, its solution times vary considerably from one implementation to the next. ...
The pollution problem due to non–biodegradable solid waste (NBDSW) along the Vasai Creek of Mumbai is one of the major issues which have remained totally neglected over past many years. The results of the present investigation indicates that plastics carry bags, milk/oil bags, plastic bottles, footwear and automobile tyres/tubes are some of the prominent NBDSW ...
Status: Under development Feedstock: Sorted municipal solid waste and wood residues Planned Product: Ethanol Expected Capacity: 38 million litres/ 10 million gallons per year Enerkem plans to build and operate a waste-to-biofuels plant in Pontotoc, Mississippi, under its U.S. affiliate, Enerkem Mississippi ...
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Status: Under construction Feedstock: Post-sorted municipal solid waste Planned Product: Methanol, Ethanol Expected Capacity: 38 million litres /10 million gallons per year Enerkem, through its affiliate Enerkem Alberta Biofuels, has signed a 25-year agreement with the City of Edmonton to build and operate a plant that will produce ...
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” These are just some of the headlines the solid waste industry has seen recently. Across the country and abroad, well-planned waste projects are being denied at an alarming rate. ...
That is, trying to gain public acceptance for the changeover of the manual solid waste collection system and then to implement the plan to procure the necessary equipment to move the program forward. ...
Management of the organic fraction of urban solid waste using anaerobic procedures will contribute to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, and using biogas, which is a carbon neutral energy, to generate electrical energy will eventually help in reducing the combustion of fossil fuel. Energy recovery in the form of biogas from Municipal ...
Particular projects elaborated in the Arab Mediterranean and specific Balkan countries today aim to identify significant pollution sources and at the same time to plan, design and elaborate mitigation and remediation approaches. These tasks address both institutional capacity building and funding tools, along with maturation of specific infrastructure de-pollution projects. Such ...
Disposal facilities are essential components of waste management. Even with the increased emphasis on waste minimisation, reuse and recycling, the amounts of waste residues requiring disposal are continuously increasing. ...
Variations in solid waste composition data are necessary as inputs to solid waste planning, yet uncertainty exists regarding which probability distributions might be generally valuable to describe the variability. Twenty-two detailed analyses of solid waste from British Columbia, ...
Choosing the most appropriate and practical strategy for solid waste management is a complex undertaking. It requires the identification of relevant perspectives, meaningful criteria, and sound evaluation method. The municipality of Bacoor in the Philippines used Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) method to arrive at a chosen waste management ...
Rapid industrial growth in the province of Khuzestan in the south west of Iran has resulted in disposal of about 1750 tons of solid waste per day. Most of these industrial solid wastes including hazardous wastes are disposed without considering environmental issues. ...
This paper presents a sophisticated mixed-integer linear programming model developed to help regional decision-makers in the long-term planning of solid waste management activities. The model removes practically all the limitations of earlier integrated waste management models. ...