Municipal Solid Waste Regulation: An Ineffective Solution to a National Problem [PDF]
, 1982 The volume of solid waste, particularly in urban areas, is increasing, and both public heath and the environment are in jeopardy because disposal methods have not kept pace.
Lanza, Donna R.
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A comparative assessment of the municipal solid waste management services [PDF]
, 2013 Mankind naturally depends on the environment to sustain their lives but solid waste is one of the three major environmental problems in Nigeria, Malaysia and many other developing and even the developed countries are threatened by this.
Abd Manaf, Latifah +3 more
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Urban solid waste challenges in the BRICS countries: a systematic literature review
, 2018 Urban Solid Waste Management (USWM) is a worldwide challenge. The problems faced are even greater due to the disproportional increase of Urban Solid Waste (USW) generation in volume, especially in a context of increased urbanization, population growth ...
Andriani Tavares Tenório Gonçalves +4 more
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The determinants of organic fertilizers used in urban and peri-urban agriculture: an econometric analysis [PDF]
, 2010 Urban poverty, increases in food demand, land pressures, pollution resulting from solid waste generation and from mineral fertilizers uses in urban and peri-urban agriculture, are becoming real issues in agriculture in Cameroon, and there is a growing ...
Parrot, Laurent, Sotamenou, Joël
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System Dynamics Model For Hospital Waste Characterisation and Generation in Developing Countries. [PDF]
, 2013 Waste management policy makers always face the problem of how to predict the future amount and composition of medical solid waste, which in turn will help determine the most appropriate treatment, recycling and disposal strategy.
Kerdsuwan S +7 more
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Urban solid waste in the production of Lafoensia pacari seedlings
, 2017 . Five treatments were tested, four with solid wastes and one standard substrate, namely: sewage sludge from Alegria Wastewater Treatment Plant (WTP); sewage sludge from Ilha do Governador WTP; sewage sludge from Sarapui WTP; domestic garbage compost ...
A. H. M. D. Abreu +5 more
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Gravity Concentration in Urban Mining Applications—A Review
Recycling, 2023 Urban mining has emerged as a concept that goes beyond conventional recycling, as it aims to tackle both the challenges of solid waste generation and management, as well as the scarcity of primary resources.
Weslei M. Ambrós
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A community-scale hybrid energy system integrating biomass for localised solid waste and renewable energy solution: Evaluations in UK and Bulgaria [PDF]
, 2019 The file attached to this record is the author's final peer reviewed version. The Publisher's final version can be found by following the DOI link.Growing pace of urban living is expected to simultaneously aggravate both the waste and the energy crises ...
Spasova, Stanislava +2 more
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Ecological InformaticsRare earth mining, essential for modern industries and economic growth, often leads to severe environmental degradation. Previous research has explored the ecological impacts of rare earth mining but has not fully investigated the intricate interplay and
Lei Ming +4 more
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IDENTIFICATION OF ORGANIC COMPONENTS OF SOLID WASTE ON SATELLITE IMAGERY WHILE MANAGING ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY [PDF]
, 2018 Solid domestic wastes contain a components which can become nutrients for a pretty wide spectrum of types of microorganisms some of which are harmful for human and environment.
Kondratenko, Oleksandr +3 more
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