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Potential of Waste to Energy Processing for Sustainable Tourism in Nusa Penida Island, Bali

Jurnal Bahan Alam Terbarukan, 2021
Solid waste management on Nusa Penida Island is one of the problems in tourism in Bali Province. To deal with this issue, the government has implemented various policies, where the policy that becomes an essential issue is the processing of energy waste.
Mega Mutiara Sari, Takanobu Inoue, Regil Kentaurus Harryes, I Wayan Koko Suryawan, Kuriko Yokota, Suprihanto Notodarmojo, Ika Bagus Priyambada, Yenis Septiariva   +7 more
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Technical and energy evaluation of municipal solid waste in Sogamoso–Boyacá-Colombia.

Ingeniería Investigación y Desarrollo, 2023
Los residuos sólidos municipales (MSW) por sus siglas en inglés, son aquellos residuos generados por la población en las ciudades, producto de las actividades residenciales, institucionales y comerciales en cada municipio, los cuales se consideran ...
JAVIER CHAPARRO BARAJAS, Ariam Lozano Pérez   +1 more
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The myth of livelihoods through urban mining: The case of e-waste pickers in Cape Town

South African Journal of Science, 2022
Waste pickers are widely acknowledged as an integral part of the formal and informal economy, diverting waste into the secondary resource economy through urban mining. Urban mining in itself is considered to be a source of livelihoods.
Takunda Y. Chitaka, Thandazile Moyo, Katharina Gihring, Catherina Schenck   +3 more
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Examining waste-to-energy technology potential through the pilot project of Bantargebang Waste-to-Energy Power Plant [PDF]

E3S Web of Conferences
Municipal waste management in Indonesia, particularly Jakarta, poses a significant environmental challenge. Jakarta has been relying on the Bantargebang landfill to address its waste disposal needs for many years.
Agatha Natasya Putri, Harvan Akhmad Audi, Prasetya Fierza Rizky   +2 more
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Butanol Production by Clostridium acetobutylicum NCIMB 13357 Utilizing Yeast Industry Wastewater as a Fermentation Medium [PDF]

E3S Web of Conferences, 2023
Increasing fuel costs and global environmental concerns have aggravated the search for renewable energy. Significant progress for biofuels production by microorganisms using many types of industrial and agricultural wastes has been achieved.
Illayan Massadeh Muhannad, Alsharafat Othman, Saleem Ahmad, Damat Damat, Suherman Suherman, Hendroko Setyobudi Roy   +5 more
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Review of Barriers to Effective Implementation of Waste and Energy Management Policies in Ghana: Implications for the Promotion of Waste-to-Energy Technologies

Waste, 2023
Issues of rising waste generation are calling for proper management and the sustainable control of waste. This study examines waste- and energy-relevant policies and strategies in Ghana and the stakeholders’ perceptions on such policies and strategies ...
Portia Adade Williams, Satyanarayana Narra, Edward Antwi, Wilhemina Quaye, Elizabeth Hagan, Roland Asare, Johnny Owusu-Arthur, Vicky Shettigondahalli Ekanthalu   +7 more
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Waste-to-Energy Conversion in Havana: Technical and Economic Analysis

Social Sciences, 2019
Havana has the highest population and consequently generation of municipal solid wastes (MSW) in Cuba. In Havana, the final deposition method for MSW is mainly landfills. However, in most cases, they exceed their lifetime of operation becoming in reality
Junior Lorenzo Llanes, Efstratios Kalogirou   +1 more
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Wasted Food, Wasted Energy: The Embedded Energy in Food Waste in the United States

Environmental Science & Technology, 2010
This work estimates the energy embedded in wasted food annually in the United States. We calculated the energy intensity of food production from agriculture, transportation, processing, food sales, storage, and preparation for 2007 as 8080 +/- 760 trillion BTU. In 1995 approximately 27% of edible food was wasted.
Cuellar, Amanda D., Webber, Michael E.
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Utilization of Kitchen Waste-to-Energy: A Conceptual Note [PDF]

Renewable Energy Research and Applications, 2021
India’s rapid economic growth and change in lifestyle have increased the level of municipal solid waste (MSW) generation in the country. Metropolitan cities in India are contributing a major portion (in lakhs metric tons per day) of MSW.
Ravinder Kumar, Anand Bewoor, R. Alayi
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Waste to energy [PDF]

Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, 2014
Rising energy costs, increasing landfill prices and the environmental imperative to reduce atmospheric emissions of fossil CO2 are all compelling medium and large energy users throughout Australia to consider decentralised onsite power generation options.
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