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The circular economy of waste: recovery, incineration and urban reuse

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 2021
This article examines how the political economy of waste utility services is changing in response to circular economy programs. It focuses on the financial composition, economic position and geography of three sectors: waste recycling, incineration, and ...
F. Savini
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A Review on Cementitious Materials Including Municipal Solid Waste Incineration Bottom Ash (MSWI-BA) as Aggregates

Buildings, 2021
Waste management is a vital environmental issue in the world today. Municipal solid wastes (MSWs) are discarded in huge quantities on a daily basis and need to be well controlled.
Jad Bawab, J. Khatib, S. Kenai, M. Sonebi   +3 more
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Research progress on the generation of environmental persistent free radicals on the surface of fine particulates during the combustion of organic solid waste

能源环境保护, 2023
Environmental persistent free radicals (EPFRs) are new environmental pollutants with long half-life, stability and persistence, and have serious environmental toxicity effects.
YANG Guohao , ZHANG Bennong, HU Yanjun*
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Rethinking of the Solid Waste Management System of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia [PDF]

Journal of Advances in Environmental Health Research, 2021
Municipal solid waste management is an important component of urban services that is often handled by local governments. Addis Ababa, the capital city of Ethiopia faces rapid urbanization leading to overcrowding and the development of shantytowns and ...
Dechasa Diriba, Xiang Meng
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Combined Heat and Power from Municipal Solid Waste: Current Status and Issues in South Korea

Energies, 2012
Municipal solid waste (MSW) is an important energy resource for combined heat and power (CHP) production. This study summarized an overview of CHP by MSW to energy (WtE) plants in South Korea and discussed the issues related to energy efficiency ...
Changkook Ryu, Donghoon Shin
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Prediction of the energy content of the municipal solid waste

International Journal of Environmental Health Engineering, 2012
Aims: In this study, the amount, composition, and energy content of waste in Isfahan, Iran, were examined. Materials and Methods: A time series model was used to predict the amount of waste generation in the future.
Asghar Ebrahimi, Mohammad Mehdi Amin, Bijan Bina, Mehdi Mokhtari, Hamid Reza Alaghebandan, Mohammad Reza Samaei, Hassan Hashemi   +6 more
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Perceptional differences in the factors of local acceptance of waste incineration plant

Frontiers in Psychology, 2022
Existing research has documented that public attitudes towards waste incineration plants are determined by various factors, such as risk perception, economic impacts, and social trust.
Yangsen Huang, Ziqi Zhang, Yanbo Zhang, Zixing Wang   +3 more
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Medical waste: the dark side of healthcare [PDF]

História, Ciências, Saúde: Manguinhos
Hospitals and other health facilities generate an ever-increasing amount of waste, approximately 15% of which may be infectious, toxic, or radioactive. The World Health Organization has been addressing the issue since the 1980s.
Iris Borowy
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MSWI bottom ash utilization in concrete mixes / Šlakų, susidarančių deginant komunalines atliekas, naudojimas betono mišiniuose

Mokslas: Lietuvos Ateitis, 2017
In recent years, along with the global development of the Circular Economy concept and in order to minimise the quantity of waste disposed, waste recovery and reuse of recovered materials as raw materials in various industries while preserving the ...
Milda Pundinaitė-Barsteigienė, Darius Bačinskas, Edmundas Spudulis, Deividas Rumšys   +3 more
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Evaluation of Struvite Recovered from Swine Wastewater as an Alternative Phosphorus Source in Broiler Feed

Agriculture, 2019
The objective of this study was to evaluate the feasibility of reutilizing phosphorus (P) recovered as struvite from swine wastewater as an alternative to commercial P sources in broiler feed.
Mijung Kim, Soomin Shim, Arif Reza, Seungsoo Kim, Seunggun Won, Baedong Jung, Jinsoo Kim, Changsix Ra   +7 more
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