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Predicted growth in plastic waste exceeds efforts to mitigate plastic pollution

open access: yesScience, 2020
A mess of plastic It is not clear what strategies will be most effective in mitigating harm from the global problem of plastic pollution. Borrelle et al. and Lau et al. discuss possible solutions and their impacts.
Stephanie B Borrelle   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

Nuclear Waste: Knowledge Waste?

Science, 2010
A stalled nuclear waste program, and possible increase in wastes, beg for social science input into acceptable solutions.
Eugene A, Rosa   +15 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Solid Waste Management

Concise Handbook of Waste Treatment Technologies, 2020
Solid waste management is a critical aspect of urban sustainability, encompassing the collection, transportation, treatment, and disposal of solid waste materials.
Subhrangsu S. Dey
semanticscholar   +1 more source

What a Waste : A Global Review of Solid Waste Management

, 2012
Solid waste management is the one thing just about every city government provides for its residents. While service levels, environmental impacts and costs vary dramatically, solid waste management is arguably the most important municipal service and ...
Perinaz Bhada-Tata, D. Hoornweg
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Waste Management

Facilities Manager's Desk Reference 3e, 2020
An essential goal of waste management is to dispose of waste without contaminating water, soil, and air. Many wastes are disposed of safely in engineered landfills, by incineration, and in underground injection wells.
A. Akinsemolu
semanticscholar   +1 more source

WASTE

Technical Education and Industrial Training, 1964
BROADLY SPEAKING, the 1961 White Paper can be said to have had two main considerations, both of them expedient, and neither of them particularly palatable.
openaire   +1 more source

Wasted time, wasted money, wasted lives… a wasted opportunity?

Tizard Learning Disability Review, 2010
In March this year the European Coalition for Community Living published Wasted Time, Wasted Money, Wasted Lives… A Wasted Opportunity? This reported on how the current use of European Union Structural Funds perpetuates the social exclusion of disabled people in central and eastern Europe by failing to support the transition from institutional care to ...
openaire   +1 more source

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