Urbanization has increased rapidly in the world. It uses an intensive resource consumption for urbanization and expanding economy. The consequences of unconscious these resources, which constitute thermodynamic system cities, are solid wastes, wastewater air pollution. As a result improper management wastes it increases effect climate change by producing greenhouse gas emissions directly or ind...

Environmental hazards as a consequence of mass consumption and waste disposal remain largely unconsidered in affluent societies. Resources embodied in waste are not recognized. In Latin America, Asia and Africa, in particular, an extensive informal sector is involved in the collecting and separating of recyclable materials. This widespread activity provides an insight into the resourcefulness o...

The Special Issue on ‘Environmental Sustainability of Current Waste Management Practices’ was a part the section and Applications’ journal ‘Sustainability’ [...]

Egypt is well-known in the world not only for its old heritage but also for its valued presence in superior quality of textiles. However, the textile industry is both energy intensive and highly polluting. The production of textiles often requires high levels of water consumption and emits large quantities of pollutants to the environment. Therefore, it is very important to minimize its impact ...

in vietnam, municipal solid waste (msw) has being become increasing complex due to variety of reasons as the increasing quantity, changing composition of msw, rising public awareness and municipal administration policies among different cities and surrounding communities. there is not currently an efficient management system in place for facilities such as storage, collection, transfer, transpo...

This article deals with practices related to cytotoxic drug dispersal, cytotoxic safety, and cytotoxic waste management and attempts at India-specific guidelines for their dispersal and disposal. The articles related to cytotoxic drug dispersal, cytotoxic safety, and cytotoxic waste management were reviewed from PubMed and their applicability in Indian health-care facilities (HCFs) was also rev...

As one of the countries with large amounts of dioxin releases, the control of dioxins is a major challenge for China. Municipal solid waste (MSW) incineration should be considered a high priority source of dioxin emissions because it is playing an increasingly more important role in waste management. MSW incineration in China has much higher emission rates of dioxins than in the developed count...

The establishment of sustainable soil waste management practices implies minimizing their environmental losses associated with climate change (greenhouse gases: GHGs) and ecosystems acidification (ammonia: NH3 ). Although a number of management strategies for solid waste management have been investigated to quantify nitrogen (N) and carbon (C) losses in relation to varied environmental and oper...