Objective: 1) To study the solid waste generated per bed per day at District hospital Kargil. 2) To study the existing system of solid waste segregation, collection, transport, storage and disposal at District hospital Kargil. Material and Methods: The prospective study was done over a period of three months, w.e.f. 1 August to 30 October, 2012. During the study of 3 months, 20 days were select...

Bricks are a widely used construction and building material around the world. Bricks are prepared from natural waste material which comprises of orange peels and coconut waste. Clay is used as a binding material for natural waste material and paper mill waste. The main objective of the present study is to reduce the quantity of clay with natural waste material. The orange peels and coconut wast...

Waste generation has increased considerably worldwide in the last few decades. Solid wastes encompass the heterogeneous mass of throwaways from the urban community as well as the homogeneous accumulations of agricultural, industrial and mineral wastes. Waste generated from biomedical activities represents a real problem of living nature and human world. A proper waste management system should b...

Compacted clay has traditionally been used as a lining material in municipal solid waste landfills. However, natural clays may not always provide good contaminant sorption properties. One alternative material that is abundant in some parts of Europe and Turkey as well as Western United States is sepiolite. A laboratory study was undertaken to investigate the feasibility of sepiolite as a liner ...

rapid urbanization and industrialization, population growth and economic growth in developing countries make management of municipal solid waste more complex comparing with developed countries. furthermore, the conventional municipal solid waste management approach often is reductionists, not tailored to handle complexity. therefore, the need to a comprehensive and multi-disciplinary approach r...

objective: dental solid wastes often contain hazardous substances. the first step of management of dental solid wastes includes detection and classification of these substances. this study aimed to qualitatively and quantitatively assess the management of solid wastes by dental offices in urmia city in 2013. methods: this descriptive study was conducted on all private dental offices in urmia ci...

Waste to energy is an answer to the growing demand for fossil fuels. Pyrolysis plays an important role in waste to energy technologies. The product obtained from pyrolysis depends on various physical parameters that influence the reaction mechanism. Pyrolysis reactions can be classified onto flash, fast and slow pyrolysis depending on temperature and heating rate. This paper discusses the effec...

The energy demand in India is increasing substantially and the energy supply is not in pace with demand. The recovery of energy from waste material is one of the best methods to tackle the energy crisis. The potential for recovery of energy from urban waste is high in Maharashtra followed by Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal. In this paper, anaerobic digestion method is used to find the...

To coop with urbanization issues and the economic need for expansion, the city of Jakarta is planning to reclaim more land in the Jakarta Bay. However, the reclamation activities of some islands have barely started and already the developers are facing difficulties in finding sufficient quantities of sand as fill material. When addressing the problem of sand scarcity in the case of Jakarta wher...