Waste management is a challenge of modern society, and there is awareness that responsibility of waste management should be shared by all community, to cooperate and ensure a sustainable development with the best principles and best management practices. It is a citizenship issue, where citizens contribute adopting preventative behaviours in the production of waste, as well as practices that fa...

A new model has been developed for evaluating the overall resource consumption and environmental impacts of municipal solid waste management systems by the use of life cycle assessment. The model is named EASEWASTE (Environmental Assessment of Solid Waste Systems and Technologies) and is able to compare different waste management strategies, waste treatment methods and waste process technologie...

In this study, an interval-parameter two-stage mixed integer linear programming (ITMILP) model is developed for supporting long-term planning of waste management activities in the City of Regina. In the ITMILP, both two-stage stochastic programming and interval linear programming are introduced into a general mixed integer linear programming framework. Uncertainties expressed as not only probab...

the main objective of this descriptive-survey research was to investigate the application of waste management operations in apple production in abhar county. the statistical population of the study consisted of 12971 apple growers of the two districts of markazi and soltanieh out of which 100 people were selected as sample using cochran formula. stratified proportionate random sampling techniqu...

The paradigm of waste management shifts toward more integrated management, hence a more integrated environment assessment method is emerging to support the strategy formulation. As a systematic and comprehensive environmental management tool, life cycle assessment (LCA) can serve as a keystone of integrated environmental assessment method. But three issues needs improvement: credibility on inve...

In the past few decades, solid waste management systems in Europe have involved complex and multi-faceted trade-offs among a plethora of technological alternatives, economic instruments, and regulatory frameworks. These changes resulted in various environmental, economic, social, and regulatory impacts in waste management practices which not only complicate regional policy analysis, but also re...

In this study, a dynamic inexact waste management (DIWM) model is developed for identifying optimal waste-flow-allocation and facility-capacity-expansion strategies under uncertainty and is based on an inexact scenario-based probabilistic programming (ISPP) approach. The DIWM model can handle uncertainties presented as interval values and probability distributions, and it can support assessing ...

Inadequate management of biomedical waste can be associated with risks to healthcare workers, patients, communities and their environment. This study was conducted to assess the handling and treatment of biomedical waste in different healthcare settings in Egypt. Five hospitals and ten primary healthcare settings were surveyed using a modified survey questionnaire for waste management. This que...

Santa Marta and Vigario Geral are the two favelas (squatter settlements) of the roughly 600 favelas in Rio de Janeiro. While not being the poorest of the poor, the favelas are still suffering from precarious services and lack of infrastructure. Waste is one of the visual measures of existing inequalities in Rio de Janeiro. Approximately 20% of the favela dwellers suffer from precarious and subs...

Solid Waste management (SWM) is an acute and complex problem in developing economies like India. Progressing states have inadequate budget for waste management, out of which major portion of which goes to collection and transportation rather than its treatment. Various techniques like land filling, incineration and composting have been used for waste management, but none of them fully assure th...