Industrial waste management within manufacturing: a comparative study of tools, policies, visions and concepts [PDF]
Industrial waste is a key factor when assessing the sustainability of a manufacturing process or company. A multitude of visions, concepts, tools, and policies are used both academically and industrially to improve the environmental effect of ...
Bjelkemyr, Marcus+4 more
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A three-year optimization study was conducted at a mechanical biological treatment plant with the aim of enhancing organic fractions recovery from mechanically separated fine fractions (MSFF) of residual waste using a screw press.
Rzgar Bewani+4 more
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Particulate Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD) removal is one of the first and foremost steps in a wastewater treatment plant (WWTP). It is a highly essential step that supports subsequent biological steps to achieve discharge limits.
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Waste management in the stingless bee Melipona beecheii Bennett (Hymenoptera: Apidae) [PDF]
Waste management is important in insect societies because waste can be hazardous to adults, brood and food stores. The general organization of waste management and the influence of task partitioning, division of labor and age polyethism on waste ...
Hart, Adam G+2 more
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Energy and Waste Management [PDF]
Waste management and energy systems are often interlinked, either directly by waste-to-energy technologies, or indirectly as processes for recovery of resources—such as materials, oils, manure, or sludge—use energy in their processes or substitute conventional production of the commodities for which the recycling processes provide raw materials.
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Indirect Estimation of the Volumetric Throughput Performance in the Shredding of Solid Waste
The volume or mass throughput of a mechanical treatment plant for commercial waste represents a key performance parameter. This measurement parameter is often unavailable, as the sensor technology required is often expensive or does not provide accurate ...
Christoph Feyerer+4 more
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The e-waste management behaviours of household consumers in Whangarei, New Zealand : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Environmental Management at Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand [PDF]
Appendix X contains Figures and Tables copyright permissionsE-waste is known to have detrimental environmental, social and economic impacts, and its volume is growing up to three times faster than any other waste stream. Despite this growing problem, and
Blake, Vicktoria Marie
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The European Union aims to recycle 60% of its total waste by 2030, for which waste collection infrastructure and the source-separation behaviour of waste producers are among the crucial prerequisites.
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Governing Sustainable Waste Management: Designing sustainable waste management into the housing sector [PDF]
In seeking to shift municipal waste policy towards sustainability, policy-makers at European, national and local levels are facing the challenge of how to engage householders in reducing, reusing and recycling their waste.
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Black, Gold, and Green: Food Waste Management at Bryant University [PDF]
The basis of this project is to examine the food waste management system at Bryant University, and to make feasible, sustainable, and cost-effective solutions for improving the system.
Tomasetti, Brooke
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