This work examines the feasibility of a greenfield mixed plastics waste gasification facility with process modeling, TEA, and LCA.

Background/Aim. Among the other challenges of 21st century, medical waste (MW) has become an arising problem for both environment and people because its increasing amount, variety, complexity. That is way MW management one very important ecological imperatives. Serbia with no potential appropriate disposal all forced to export countries incineration facilities. Incineration lowers possible risk...

Nuclear waste (like radioactive waste) is that contains, or contaminated with, radionuclides, at activity concentrations greater than clearance levels set by the regulators, beyond which no further use foreseen. Disposal emplacement of in an appropriate facility without intention to retrieve it.

After strontium/transuranics removal by precipitation followed by cesium/technetium removal by ion exchange, the remaining low-activity waste in the Hanford River Protection Project Waste Treatment Plant is to be concentrated by evaporation before being mixed with glass formers and vitrified. To provide a technical basis to permit the waste treatment facility, a relatively organic-rich Hanford ...

Plasma gasification/vitrification is a technologically advanced and environmentally friendly method of disposing of waste, converting it to commercially usable by-products. This process is a drastic non-incineration thermal process, which uses extremely high temperatures in an oxygen-starved environment to completely decompose input waste material into very simple molecules. The intense and ver...

who share the benefits of the undesirable facility provide compensation to those who host the facility. The compensation could be in the form of direct payment to individuals in the community, or through investments to improve the community. Boerner and Lambert also detailed benefits that communities could reap by supporting the construction of polluting and waste facilities in their areas. Amo...

Waste management practices can impact greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by affecting energy consumption, methane generation, carbon sequestration, and non-energy-related manufacturing emissions. This paper examines GHG emissions and sinks, from a life-cycle perspective, for selected paper, glass, metal, and plastic materials comprising about one-third of municipal solid waste (MSW) generated in th...