Worldwide, a huge production of agro-industrial wastes is observed every year in the milling, brewing, agricultural, and food industries. Biochemical bioactive substances can be produced from these agricultural wastes. Pineapple by-products, which consist peeled skin, core, crown end, etc., account for 60% weight pineapple fruit are disposed as waste, causing disposal pollution problems. The bi...

Abstract This paper is based on the planning, execution and implementation of solid waste management in Hockey World Cup hosted by city Bhubaneswar implemented GIZ (German Development Cooperation). Zero Waste Plan was prepared wherein establishment a zero-waste facility; collection colour coded bins capacity 120l; hands training provided to operational staff for ensuring proper segregation. App...

Abstract Alum sludge (AS) is produced in inevitable amounts from drinking water treatment plants. Also, dye-contaminating wastewater usually discharged textile industries that must be treated to meet the environmental authorities; thus, Fenton’s reagent a suitable candidate. However, reducing quantity of chemicals used Fenton reactions can partly achieved by an industrial ecology approach. This...

The construction industry, one of the most important ones in the development of a country, generates unavoidable impacts on the environment. The social demand towards greater respect for the environment is a high and general outcry. Therefore, the construction industry needs to reduce the impact it produces. Proper waste management is not enough; we must take a further step in environmental man...

Literature reports from different emerging economies testify to identical raw domestic waste compositions and support extrapolation of management strategies. Based on 2002 World Summit directives and on experiments with source separation in sample communities, this study develops a realistic timeframe of five decades for complete landfill diversion of this waste. The independent progress variab...

This paper reports a study regarding households’ willingness to pay for private sector solid waste management services. The data originated from a contingent valuation survey conducted in 224 households in Ilorin in southwest Nigeria and was analysed using tobit and censored least absolute deviations models. The use of a robust and consistent estimator to model zero willingness to pay responses...