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Waste Management: Valorisation Is the Way

Foods, 2021
Waste management is one of the great problems in the world today. This study aims to analyse how scientific research has evolved in recent years in the field of waste management and what will be the key issues in the coming years, mainly in terms of ...
German Gemar, Ismael P. Soler, Eva M. Sánchez-Teba   +2 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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Assessment of the Energetical and Biological Characteristics of Municipal Solid Waste from One of the Largest Landfills in Kazakhstan

Recycling, 2022
Solid waste management is one of the main problems in large cities. The determination of the quantitative and qualitative composition of municipal solid waste is necessary for proper planning in the processing of such waste.
Arlan Z. Abilmagzhanov, Nikolay S. Ivanov, Oleg S. Kholkin, Iskander E. Adelbaev   +3 more
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Gasification of municipal solid waste in a downdraft gasifier: Analysis of tar formation [PDF]

Songklanakarin Journal of Science and Technology (SJST), 2016
In this study, municipal solid waste (MSW) from a dumpsite was converted into refuse derived fuel (RDF) and used as feedstock for an air-blown gasification process.
Tabitha Geoffrey Etutu, Krongkaew Laohalidanond, Somrat Kerdsuwan   +2 more
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Risks, alternative knowledge strategies and democratic legitimacy: the conflict over co-incineration of hazardous industrial waste in Portugal. [PDF]

, 2011
The decision to incinerate hazardous industrial waste in cement plants (the socalled ‘co-incineration’ process) gave rise to one of the most heated environmental conflicts ever to take place in Portugal. The bitterest period was between 1997 and 2002,
Alam T., Alexander J.C., Barker A., Beck U., Boehmer-Christiansen S., Cohen B., Collingridge D., Edelstein M.R., Fischer F., Formosinho S., Gigerenzer G., Godard O., Hacking I., Hacking I., Helena Mateus Jerónimo, Hilgartner S., Jasanoff S., Jerónimo H.M., Jerónimo H.M., José Luís Garcia, Kasperson R.E., Kasperson R.E., Keynes J.M., Knight F.H., Krüger L., Lacey H., Lacey H., Larson M.S., Liberatore A., Martins H., Mazur A., Nelkin D., Nowotny H., Petts J., Porter T.M., Primack J., Roqueplo P., Rosanvallon P., Rosanvallon P., Roy A., Tilly C., Vari A.   +41 more
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Ethnic and religious tolerance: barrier factors and improvement measures based on Malay youth perspectives in Malaysia [PDF]

, 2021
Ethnic and religious unity is a thing that every country wishes for not exempting Malaysia. Tolerance among the population is very much expected to achieve this.
Abdullah, Kamarulnizam, Damin, Zahrul Akmal, Fauzee, Mohd Sofian Omar   +2 more
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The precautions of clinical waste: disposable medical sharps in the United Kingdom [PDF]

, 2009
This article deals with recent changes in UK guidance on clinical waste, in particular a shift to disposable, single-use instruments and sharps. I use interviews conducted with nurses from a GP practice and two clinical waste managers at alternative ...
A Pruess, B Kaiser, C Sunstein, C Sunstein, C Waldby, D Kahneman, DCJ Hutchins, G Hawkins, G Majone, I Hacking, J Adams, Katherine Angel, M Douglas, M Douglas, M Ganczak, M Gandy, M Gandy, M Lianos, N Scheper-Hughes, R Baldwin, S Fisher, S Franklin, T Cooper, T Cooper, TL Tudor, Z Bauman, Z Gille   +26 more
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The health impacts of waste-to-energy emissions: a systematic review of the literature

Environmental Research Letters, 2020
Waste-to-energy (WtE) processes, or the combustion of refuse-derived fuel (RDF) for energy generation, has the potential to reduce landfill volume while providing a renewable energy source. We aimed to systematically review and summarise current evidence
Tom Cole-Hunter, Fay H Johnston, Guy B Marks, Lidia Morawska, Geoffrey G Morgan, Marge Overs, Ana Porta-Cubas, Christine T Cowie   +7 more
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World markets for conventional and advanced biofuels over the next five years [PDF]

, 2018
Production of transport biofuels grew by just 2% in 2017. To achieve the 2030 SDS target, use of biofuels needs to triple, driven by cost reductions of advanced biofuels, widespread sustainability governance and more adoption in aviation and marine ...
Asthana, Abhishek
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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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