The Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) management is a complex service that should be provided with suitable and feasible technologies in developing countries like India. The collection element plays a vital role in the MSW management. Hence, the planning and design of community bins make a greater impact on the environment. In this regard, an application model called Design of Community Storage Syste...

Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) is complex refuse consisting of various materials with different properties. Some of the components are stable while others degrade as a result of biological and chemical processes. Leachate resulting from this is hazardous pollutant to the soil and ground water underlying. Leaching of this leachate and heavy metals into the soil leads to the contamination of both so...

Incineration of municipal solid waste (MSW) is one of the key scopes in the global clean energy strategy. A computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model was established in order to reveal these features of the combustion process in a fixed porous bed of MSW. Transporting equations and process rate equations of the waste bed were modeled and set up to describe the incineration process, according to ...

Bhutan lacks the solid waste data which are essential parameters for planning and scheduling of municipal solid waste management (MSWM) systems. The first ever large-scale research survey on solid waste generation and characterization in the urban areas of Bhutan was conducted between November 2007 and January 2008 using the method of waste sampling at source. The MSW generation rates in the ur...

Landfills are a significant source of greenhouse gases, which contribute to the process of global warming. In the region covered by the Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC), changes in consumption patterns have led to an excessive dump of municipal solid waste (MSW). Thus, it is clearly an important time to re-evaluate conventional waste management protocols in order to establish methods that not on...

The chlorine content of municipal solid waste (MSW) and refuse derived fuel (RDF) plays a dominant role in combustion processes. In order to prevent operational problems, such as high temperature corrosion, quality assured analytical methods for the determination of the chlorine concentration are necessary. This paper presents results of the chlorine content of the main components of untreated ...

Megacities concentrate large amounts of people, absorb a large quantity of resources and generate vast amounts of waste and sewage, thereby contributing considerably to the use of the environment as a sink. The quantity of resources consumed and urban residues produced per capita tend to rise steadily with increased per capita income. Proper management of municipal solid waste is critical to th...

Portugal, with 210,422 tonnes of glass recycled in 2011, did not attain the target for glass (227,060 tonnes), and this happened probably due to three factors: the reuse of this material since glass is a durable material, non-declaration of glass received by MRF (Material Recovery Facilities) and nondeposition in the specific stream. In 2011 were produced in Portugal, 5.159 million tonnes of Mu...

Solid waste management is a challenge, problem as well as opportunities for the cities' authorities in developing countries especially low-income ones mostly because of the enhancing generation of waste, the burden posed on the budget of municipalities as a consequence of the high expenses belonged to its management, absence of the perception over a variety of factors which affect the various s...