WARREN H. CHESNER Chesner Engineering, P.C. This paper presents an overview of a recently pat­ ented technology which defines the process of using selected waste products to assist in reclaiming existing municipal solid waste landfill sites [1]. The process in­ volves the pressurized injection of these materials into the void spaces of existing landfill sites to both manage the waste product an...

Planning of waste management system in urban area should take into consideration many legal, technological, financial, economic, technical, ecological, social and spatial aspects. The aim of the paper is to propose the method, which can be helpful in planning procedure of waste management system in European cities or regions, which comprise with following steps: identification of produced volum...

background: the first step of solid waste management is identification of its composition and the amount of solid waste production per capita. the aim of this research was to estimate the quantity of solid waste production at mazandaran university of medical sciences and the possibility of recycling. methods: this study was a cross-sectional study. the quantity of solid waste production was mea...

The selection of a landfill site is considered as a complicated task because this process is based on many factors and restrictions. For Al-Qasim Qadhaa, which is situated in the southern part of the Babylon Governorate, Iraq, there is no landfill site in that area that conforms to the scientific criteria for selecting sites for landfill. For this reason, 15 criteria were adopted in this study ...

One of the most important causes of environmental pollution is certainly an inadequate waste management. The three factors that have primarily influenced this problem area are: ever increasing amount of municipal solid waste (which causes increasingly pronounced space occupation), increasing amount and types of hazardous waste, as well as lack of awareness on the importance of acting promptly i...

I/S Nordforbrænding is an inter-municipal waste management company located north of Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark, which serves approximately 180,000 inhabitants. It was founded in 1965 and it is owned by six municipalities in North Sealand: Allerød, Søllerød, Hørsholm, Fredensborg-Humlebæk, Karlebo and Helsingør as shown in Fig. 1. The company’s mission was to establish a Waste-to-Energy ...

this method is based on assigning some weghing values for natural, cultural, and recreational resources of a site for national parks. numerical value are used to determine whether a particular area is suitable for the of national parks. delfi technique is also employed to reduce the subjectivity as well as, bias in site selection, criteria used in parts of the world for this p~ are the basis of...