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Investigating the Role of Municipal Waste Treatment within the European Union through a Novel Created Common Sustainability Point System

Recycling
Over the last several decades, the European Union (EU) has championed recycling and sustainable waste management through Directives 2008/98/EC and 2018/851, shaping practices across its member states.
Konstantinos Tsimnadis, Grigorios L. Kyriakopoulos   +1 more
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Soil Contamination Due to Heavy Metals at Electronic Waste Dumpsites in Karachi, Pakistan

Pakistan Journal of Analytical & Environmental Chemistry, 2020
The Shershah market is the oldest and largest scrap market in the Karachi city. The recycling, dismantling and burning of electronic waste (e-waste) in and around the market are causing the significant environmental and human health risk. Furthermore, it
Abdul Rafeeq, Syed Azhar Ali, Asad Khan Tanoli, Abdul Rauf Shah, Akbar Khan, Mohsin Mumtaz   +5 more
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Study of emitted gases from incinerator of Al-Sadr hospital in Najaf city

Open Engineering, 2022
Medical waste incinerator of Al-Sadar hospital in Najaf city is one of the environmental pollution sources in the city due to reasons related to the quantity and quality of gases emitted from it, so this study aims to estimate environmental damage by ...
Mohsen Kizar AL Hasnawi Fatima, Suhad Abdulsattar AL Mahbobi, Layth Abdulrasool AL Asadi   +2 more
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Life cycle and economic assessment on different utilization and treatment strategies of combustion and incineration residues

Combustion and incineration residues are disposed of in large quantities in landfills, but there is an increasing effort to recover and recycle them without harming the environment.
Notarnicola M., Farina I., Todaro F., Singh N., De Gisi S., Colangelo F., Tsang D. C. W., Labianca C.   +7 more
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Unlocking Energy from Waste: A Comprehensive Analysis of Municipal Solid Waste Recovery Potential in Ghana

World
Ghana is currently facing a waste crisis that presents considerable risks to its environment, economy, and public health. This investigation evaluates four prospective waste-to-energy options—namely, incineration, anaerobic digestion, gasification, and ...
Abdul-Wahab Tahiru, Samuel Jerry Cobbina, Wilhemina Asare, Silas Uwumborge Takal   +3 more
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Energy from biofuel [PDF]

, 2006
Coal energized the 19"' century while oil worked for the 20"' century. The question that remains pending is the future energy source. With the expanding population and growing demands from industrialization of countries such as India and China, total ...
Khor, Adela
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Assessment of the Synergy between Recycling and Thermal Treatments in Municipal Solid Waste Management in Europe

Energies, 2020
In 2018, the production of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) in EU-28 reached 250.6 Mt, with the adoption of different management strategies, involving recycling (48 wt %), incineration and thermal valorization (29 wt %) and landfilling (23 wt %).
Marco Abis, Martina Bruno, Kerstin Kuchta, Franz-Georg Simon, Raul Grönholm, Michel Hoppe, Silvia Fiore   +6 more
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Evaluation of Environmental Sustainability of Biorefinery and Incineration with Energy Recovery Based on Life Cycle Assessment

Fermentation
Based on Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and ISO standards, we compared the global environmental sustainability (ES) of two technologies that process the organic fraction of municipal solid waste (OFMSW) in Mexico. The first technology was a biorefinery (BRF)
Alejandra Gabriela Yáñez-Vergara, Héctor Mario Poggi-Varaldo, Guadalupe Pérez-Morales, Perla Xochitl Sotelo-Navarro, América Alejandra Padilla-Viveros, Yasuhiro Matsumoto-Kuwahara, Teresa Ponce-Noyola, Rocío Sánchez-Pérez   +7 more
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The Struggle for Sustainable Waste Management in Hong Kong: 1950s–2010s

Worldwide Waste, 2019
As Hong Kong’s landfills are expected to reach saturated conditions by 2020, the city can no longer rely on landfilling alone as the sole solution for waste treatment in the long term. Drawing on five months of archival research at the University of Hong
Nele Fabian, Loretta Ieng Tak Lou
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Catalytic Pyrolysis of Waste Polystyrene Over Fe–B Composite Catalyst for Enhanced Liquid Fuel Production

Asia-Pacific Journal of Chemical Engineering, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Healthcare derived polystyrene waste represents a growing and under addressed fraction of plastic waste streams due to contamination risks and limited recyclability. This study aims to investigate the valorization of waste polystyrene foam through catalytic and noncatalytic pyrolysis pathways to evaluate product yield distribution and identify
Salman Khan, Zahid Hussain, Bilal Ahmad, Naveed Ahmad, Shohreh Azizi   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source