The growth in electronic equipment production and consumption has been exponential in the last two decades. About 20 to 50 million tonnes of electronic waste (“e-waste”) are generated worldwide every year. Much of this waste has been transported to the developing nations. The Customs Agency of Tianjin, China, has reported that more than 200 tonnes of smuggled e-wastes have been confiscated in t...

Over recent decades, demand for various materials has increased at an unprecedented rate to underpin human well-being. However, our current material use is problematic and generates massive waste, which is approaching the carrying capacity of our planet and requires a spin on its growth, namely the peak waste. Hence, the current waste generation trend must be fully understood and adjusted. In p...

Citation for published version (APA): Jurado, E., Gavala, H. N., & Skiadas, I. (2012). ADM1-based modeling of anaerobic digestion of swine manure fibers pretreated with aqueous ammonia soaking. In Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Energy from biomass and Waste, San Servolo, Venice (Italy), November 12-15 Venice: IWWG-International Waste Working Group, Hamburg University of Techn...

A thermochemical conversion (TCC) process was developed and researched to reduce waste and to produce renewable energy from swine manure. Experimental results showed that operating temperature and retention time were the key parameters. It is critical that a process gas, reducing or non-reducing gases but not water vapor, be added to the process in order to yield an oil product. The operating t...

There has been increasing use and dependence on electrical and electronic gadgets like mobile phone, personal computers, laptops, server, data storage devices, photo copying machines, TV (CRT/LED/LCD), washing machine, refrigerators and air conditioners, etc. resulting into generation of large quantities of E-waste. The high rates of obsolescence of the above mentioned items coupled with steady...

The electronic industry is the world’s largest and fastest growing manufacturing industry in the world. Discarded electronic and electrical equipment with all of their peripherals at the end of life is termed ewaste. The quantity of c-waste generated in developed countries equals 1% of total solid waste on an average and is expected to grow to 2% by 2011 and is one of the fastest growing waste ...

The ever increasing pile-up of electronic waste in dumping sites, especially in developing countries such as China, Pakistan, India and several African countries, might have caused a significant alteration in the microbial community of the contaminated sites. This change in the microbial population may have significant impact to the soil ecology function. The major pollutants of electronic wast...

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Electronic waste (e-waste) is one of the fastest increasing waste streams worldwide due to unprecedented growth of the electronics industry, rapid obsolescence and subsequent disposal of electronic devices. Printed circuit boards (PCBs), the central component of electronic devices, are highly complex. PCBs are an important resource of metals, and contain substantial amounts of copper, tin, lead...

In the present work bagasse (B) i.e waste of the sugar industry, was fed to Eisenia fetida with cattle dung (CD) support as feed material at various ratios (waste: CD) of 0:100 (B0), 25:75 (B25), 50:50 (B50), 75:25 (B75) and 100:0 (B100) on dry weight basis. Co-composting with cattle dung helped to improve their acceptability for E. fetida and also improved physico-chemical characteristics. Bes...