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Key factors influencing public awareness of household solid waste recycling in urban areas of China: A case study

, 2020
With rapid economic development, population growth, and urbanization, household solid waste (HSW) causes significant environmental pollution and health threats to residents.
Hui Wang, Xiao Liu, Ning Wang, Kun-Pu Zhang, Fengchuan Wang, Shuping Zhang, Ren-qing Wang, P. Zheng, M. Matsushita   +8 more
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Urban Residential Solid Waste Management in India

Public Works Management & Policy, 2000
Solid waste is a potential nightmare across India’s large and growing urban population, due to inadequate policy and legislative instruments and to the deplorable organizational and financial capacities of urban local bodies. Sketching briefly the waste generation, collection, and disposal scenario across urban India, this article highlights the ...
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Intelligent system for valorizing solid urban waste

2014 9th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI), 2014
The management of municipal solid waste is a complex problem for most developed countries. At present, only a few small cities have implemented procedures for collecting garbage in an innovative way. Thus, it is urgent to implement measures that initiate sustainable behavior, with the active participation of citizens, ensuring the conservation of ...
Pedro Reis, Rui Pitarma, Celistino Goncalves, Filipe Caetano   +3 more
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Urban solid waste management in Chongqing: Challenges and opportunities

Waste Management, 2006
The dual influences of the resource supply and protection in ecological environments will pose a significant challenge to China's sustainable development. Solid waste management offers opportunities to improve profits by conserving resources and improving environmental performance.
Yuan, Hui, Wang, Li'ao, Su, Fenwei, Hu, Gang   +3 more
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DSYOLO-trash: An attention mechanism-integrated and object tracking algorithm for solid waste detection.

Waste Management
In a global context, the production of urban solid waste significantly varies with changes in living standards. This trend exhibits diversity across different countries and regions, reflecting shifts in lifestyles as well as varying needs and challenges ...
Wanqi Ma, Hong Chen, Wenkang Zhang, Han-Ting Huang, Ji'an Wu, Xu Peng, Qingqing Sun   +6 more
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Urban organic solid waste: practices in Hyderabad

2004
One of the main problems in organic waste reuse and recycling is the lack of source separation, which affects the quality of the organic waste routed through the municipal waste stream negatively. This prevents effective use of a major portion of municipal waste generated.
S. Galab, S. Sudhakar Reddyand, Isa Baud
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Urban planning perspectives on solid waste disposal

Conservation & Recycling, 1984
Abstract This paper focusses on the role of urban planning and urban planners in the development and implementation of solid waste disposal policies. The paper argues that an urban planning perspective represents an important, indeed essential, component in the design of solid waste disposal policies.
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Investigation of knowledge, attitude, and practice of Tehranian women apropos of reducing, reusing, recycling, and recovery of urban solid waste

Environmental Monitoring & Assessment, 2020
A. Zand, A. V. Heir, A. Tabrizi
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Solid waste management in urban areas

Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 2003
Paolo Fiorucci, Riccardo Minciardi, Michela Robba, Roberto Sacile   +3 more
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Location–allocation of bins in urban solid waste management: a case study of Bilaspur city, India

Environment, Development and Sustainability, 2019
Pradeep Rathore, S. P. Sarmah, Arti Singh   +2 more
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