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URBAN SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT IN CAXIAS DO SUL/BRAZIL: PRACTICES AND CHALLENGES
Journal of Urban and Environmental Engineering, 2016 Solid waste management is becoming a challenge for the cities’ authorities in developing countries mainly due to the rapid economic growth and population increasing.
Matheus Poletto +3 more
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The use of system dynamics on urban solid waste management: a literature analysis
Gestão & Produção, 2021 Urban solid waste management is a complex system due to the many variables that compose it, which makes it difficult for managers to make decisions. Among the decision-making tools is system dynamics.
Larissa do Nascimento Sancheta +2 more
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The challenge of urban solid waste management in Brazil
Economía, Sociedad y Territorio, 2021 The National Solid Waste Policy (PNRS) and its regulation originated a new reference for the integrated and sustainable solid waste management in the country and new challenges for the implementation and improvement of the selective collection service ...
Renata V. Klafke +2 more
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The extended avian urban phenotype: Anthropogenic solid waste pollution, nest design and fitness.
Science of the Total Environment, 2022 Solid waste pollution (garbage discarded by humans, such as plastic, metal, paper) has received increased attention given its importance as a global threat to biodiversity.
Zuzanna A. Jagiello +4 more
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Gestão de resíduos sólidos urbanos na Região de Integração de Carajás, Pará: desafios e perspectivas
Confins, 2023 The integrated management of urban solid waste - MSW requires identifying and combining alternatives for collecting, separating and disposing of waste that are, in general, heterogeneous.
Sidnei Cerqueira dos Santos +5 more
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Economic Inefficiency Levels of Urban Solid Waste Management Services in Portugal
Sustainability, 2020 Key performance indicators (KPI) are widely used tools to evaluate the economic (in)efficiency of services, including the ones devoted to urban solid waste management.
Diogo Cunha Ferreira +3 more
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Characteristics and control measures of odor emissions from crematoriums in Beijing, China
SN Applied Sciences, 2021 The promulgation and implementation of the national and Beijing municipal standards for air pollutants emitted from crematoriums has effectively alleviated the problem of “black smoke” in crematoriums, but noticeable odor in crematoriums remains.
Yangyang Cui +10 more
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National Science Open, 2022 Municipal solid waste (MSW) landfill is one of the most important reservoirs of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in urban environments. By reviewing ~120 published cases worldwide, we found that leachate-borne antibiotics were at the μg/L level, and ...
Wu Dong +5 more
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Solid waste management trends in Nigeria [PDF]
, 2016 <p>The purpose of this paper is to investigate the current trend of solid waste management in Nigeria and to identify the major challenges inhibiting the attainment of sustainable solid waste management in the country. The study relied on a desktop
Amasuomo, Ebikapade, Baird, Jim
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What a Waste 2.0: A Global Snapshot of Solid Waste Management to 2050
, 2018 By 2050, the world is expected to generate 3.40 billion tons of waste annually, increasing drastically from today’s 2.01 billion tons. What a Waste 2.0: A Global Snapshot of Solid Waste Management to 2050 aggregates extensive solid waste data at the ...
Silpa Kaza +3 more
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