BACKGROUND In Europe, almost 87.6 million tonnes of food waste are produced. Despite the high biological value of food waste, traditional management solutions do not consider it as a precious resource. Many studies have reported the use of food waste for the production of high added value molecules. Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) represent a class of interesting bio-polyesters accumulated by diff...

Sound waste management and optimisation of resource recovery require reliable data on solid waste generation and composition. In the absence of standardised and commonly accepted waste characterisation methodologies, various approaches have been reported in literature. This limits both comparability and applicability of the results. In this study, a waste sampling and sorting methodology for ef...

Waste treatment facilities are often shared among different municipalities as a means of managing wastes more efficiently. Usually, management costs are assigned to each municipality depending on the size of the population or total amount of waste produced, regardless of important environmental aspects such as per capita waste generation or achievements in composting or recycling. This paper pr...

1 This paper aims to compare household waste, separated pig solids, food waste, pig slaughterhouse sludge 2 and green algae regarding their biodegradability, their stabilization kinetics and their temperature rise during 3 composting. Three experiments in lab-scale pilots (300L) were performed for each waste, each one under a 4 constant aeration rate. The aeration rates applied were comprised b...

STRUK, M., SOUKOPOVÁ, J.: Effi ciency of the current municipal waste expenditure – methodology approach and its application. Acta univ. agric. et silvic. Mendel. Brun., 2011, LIX, No. 7, pp. 379–386 The paper introduces methodology designed in order to evaluate and compare effi ciency of chosen municipal waste expenditure via calculating effi ciency ratings. First part of the paper briefl y des...

a trend of significant increase in municipal solid waste generation has been recorded worldwide. this has been found due to over population growth rate, industrialization, urbanization and economic growth. consumerism speed has been found very high covering around more then 50% of total population since last decade due to higher economic growth, which has ultimately resulted in increased solid ...

Background and Objectives: Disposal of hospital wates is a significant environemtal concerns, particularly in develoing regions of the world. Addressing this challenge relies on availability of detailed data on the current status of wate management. Mazandaran Province is located in southern coast of the Caspian Sea and thus its environmental status may directly influe...

In a municipal solid waste management system, decreasing collection/hauling costs, which consist of 85 % of total disposal expenditure, can be carried out by a route optimization. Thus, a huge amount of economical benefits is getting furnished. If route optimization is performed in solid waste collection/hauling process, due to reductions in “empty miles” negativity, total expenditures will be ...