Composition and quantity per person of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) were analyzed in six municipalities with different collection systems. Samples of residual waste were sorted, classified and weighed in 21 categories. Collection data of total waste flow, including sourcesorted recycling materials, in the same area was analyzed. Multivariate data analyses were applied. The main questions to be a...

This paper describes the development of a design chart for the estimation of maximum horizontal displacement within a municipal landfill using the height and the side slope of the landfill. The design chart is based on the results of a finite element parametric study in which the behaviour of the municipal solid waste (MSW) was modeled using a non-linear elastic hyperbolic model. The model inpu...

The condition of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) in Malaysia, which contains excessive moisture complicate the segregation process of recycling and making the use of such technology as solid waste burning unsuitable and harmful. In addition, not much MSW pre-treatment is carried out in Malaysia to reduce the moisture content. Although Malaysia’s first waste-to-energy plant has proven to be relative...

In this study, an inexact fuzzy-queue programming (IFQP) model is developed for municipal solid waste (MSW) management under uncertainty, where fuzzy queue (FQ) model is introduced into the intervalfuzzy linear programming (IFLP) framework. The proposed IFQP model can not only handle uncertainties that are presented in terms of fuzzy sets and discrete intervals, but also reflect the influence o...

Background & Aims of the Study:  Collection and transportation of municipal solid waste (MSW) for various reasons, especially economic and social are considered as one of the most important elements of the solid waste management system. More than sixty percent of the costs in solid waste management systems in different countries are due to the collection and transportation...

This paper examines how and to what degree government policies of garbage fees and voluntary source separation programs, with free indoor containers and garbage bags, can affect the effectiveness of municipal solid waste (MSW) management, in the sense of achieving a desirable reduction of per capita MSW generation. Based on city-level panel data for years 1998–2012 in China, our empirical analy...

This paper presents a comparison of commercial fluidized bed gasifiers and combustors used to recover energy from municipal solid wastes and biomass. The work reported here is excerpted from four case studies prepared for the International Energy Agency’s Bioenergy Agreement, under Task 23 (Energy from Thermal Conversion of MSW and RDF, 1998-2000) and Task 36 (Energy from Integrated Solid Waste...

While considerable attention has been paid to the land application of sewage sludges and composted sewage sludges in the U.S. during the last twenty years, land application of municipal solid waste (MSW) composts has received comparatively little attention. However, there has been a recent resurgence of interest in this topic as other options for solid waste disposal such as landfilling and inc...

Municipal solid waste (MSW) management has emerged as an important human and environmental health issue. A large number of poor, downtrodden marginalized urban women are thriving on these recyclable wastes and are potentially exposed to a variety of occupational biohazards and safety risks. At present there are about millions of women in India who scavenge the city’s garbage bins and MSW dispos...

This project was commissioned by the Association of Plastics Manufacturers in Europe (APME) and the American Plastics Council (APC) to evaluate the operational and environmental impacts associated with the co-combustion of automotive shredder residue (ASR) with municipal solid waste (MSW) in a modem, commercial waste-to-energy plant. This paper describes the shredding and combustion facilities ...