Conditions and programs for waste management

Simulation-based Optimization of Solid Waste Management and Recycling Programs

ID: 268 Eric D. Antmann, Nurcin Celik*, Xiaoran Shi, and Yading Dai Department of Industrial Engineering, The University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, USA *Telephone: (305) 284-2391, E-mail: [email protected] Abstract Solid waste produced as a by-product of our daily activities poses a major threat to societies as populations grow and economic development advances. Consequently, the effective manag...

Waste and Waste Management

Discard studies have demonstrated that waste is more than just a symptom of an all-too-human demand for meaning, or a merely technical problem for the likes of sanitary engineers and public health officials. The afterlife of waste materials and processes of waste management reveal the centrality of transient and discarded things for questions of materiality and ontology, marginal and polluting ...

Waste and Waste Management

4. With an aim to improve the waste management, Mongolia developed the following regulations: “A rule on classification, collection, temporary storage, transportation, treatment of hazardous wastes” (2002); “Regulation and procedures on disposal and landfill of hazardous waste of business entities, and requirements on waste containers and waste disposal sites” (2006); “Methodology for calculati...

The Waste Experts: Enabling Conditions for Informal Sector Integration in Solid Waste Management

Office of Solid Waste Management Programs “Co-Disposal” for Solid Wastes and Sewage Sludge

Each day, 15,000 tons of sludge solids are removed from U.S. wastewater treatment plants. A combination of events has caused disposal of this sludge to build up to a major problem for an increasing number of communities. Municipal sanitary wastewater contains about 0.35 pounds of dry solids per person per day. Added to this load are various commercial and industrial wastes. Ever-greater quantit...