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Municipal solid waste disposal in Portugal
Waste Management, 2006In recent years municipal solid waste (MSW) disposal has been one of the most important environmental problems for all of the Portuguese regions. The basic principles of MSW management in Portugal are: (1) prevention or reduction, (2) reuse, (3) recovery (e.g., recycling, incineration with heat recovery), and (4) polluter-pay principle. A brief history
Alexandre Magrinho +2 more
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Municipal solid waste management and landfilling technologies: a review
Environmental Chemistry Letters, 2020S. Nanda, F. Berruti
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Benchmarking in municipal solid waste recycling
Waste Management, 2010The paper presents an analysis of the factors influencing the recycling potential of municipalities in Israel, including population size and density, geographic location, current waste levels, and current waste management system. We employ a standard regression analysis in order to develop an econometric model to predict where potential for ...
Doron Lavee, Mahmood Khatib
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Sustainable management of municipal solid waste through waste-to-energy technologies.
Bioresource Technology, 2022Sunita Varjani +11 more
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Gasification of municipal solid waste: Progress, challenges, and prospects
Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2022Muhammad Sajid +5 more
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A technical review of bioenergy and resource recovery from municipal solid waste.
Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2021S. Nanda, F. Berruti
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The Disposal of Municipal Solid Wastes
2011The publication of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (1962) stimulated eventual worldwide interest in the environment, leading to the founding of the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) and the inauguration of national environmental ministries, agencies or laws world-wide.
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Tapping Resources in Municipal Solid Waste
Science, 1976Problems to be solved and advantages offered in the recycling of municipal solid wastes are analyzed. The development of materials recovery systems is still in an elementary stage except for ferrous metals recovery. However, only a very small fraction of municipal solid waste is subjected to any type of materials recovery.
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