The ultimate responsibility for the collection and disposal of municipal solid waste rests with local government. As regional planning developed, more counties and states assumed some or all of this re­ sponsibility. The Federal Government has not, to date, provided the broad financial support for solid waste systems now available for municipal waste water systems. Their participation has been ...

unicipal solid waste (MSW) landfills impose externalities on surrounding neighborhoods. Consequently, numerous laws have been enacted in order to promote a competitive interstate trade in MSW that takes such externalities into account. In principle, the externalities can be regulated via command-and-control of landfill technology and disposal practices; imposition of disposal taxes; or via a sy...

This paper seeks to describe the overall state of Rural Solid Waste Management (RSWM) in China in three main areas: waste collection services, waste transportation services and waste disposal services. Given China’s urbanization, industrialization, and the subsequent improvement of household living standards, the amount of solid waste generated in rural China has increased rapidly. Based on pri...

This report updates and consolidates previous recommendations of the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) related to solid waste disposal (ICRP, 1985, 1997b, 1998). The recommendations given apply specifically to geological disposal of long-lived solid radioactive waste. The report explains how the ICRP system of radiological protection described in Publication 103 (ICRP, ...

OPINION: [*6] Per Curiam: The Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments of 1984 instituted a ban on the land disposal of classes of hazardous wastes unless certain conditions are met. Those amendments require the Environmental Protection Agency to follow a phased schedule for implementing the ban. In this case we consider various challenges to regulations implementing the final portion of this progr...

1. Significance of Mineral Beneficiation 2. Overview of Mineral Processing Systems 3. Components of Mineral Beneficiation Technology 4. Comminution System 5. Gravity Separation 6. Flotation 7. Magnetic Separation 8. Electrostatic Separation 9. Solid-Liquid Separation and Waste Treatment 10. Other Methods of Mineral Extraction 11. Disposal of Solid Wastes and Waste Water Treatment 12. Conclusion...

This paper describes the general system for regulation of disposal of solid, long-lived radioactive wastes. It outlines the relevant Government policy, the framework of legislation and arrangements for implementation, the associated guidance produced by regulatory bodies and the approach to assessment by regulators of a safety case for radioactive waste disposal. Also, for the purposes of discu...

This article highlights the problems of solid waste management in the city of Guwahati. The institutional responsibility of solid waste disposal system is assigned to the Guwahati Municipal Corporation. But the service provided by the corporation is neither efficient nor sufficient. This has created enormous problem in the city. Therefore, an attempt has been made in this article to examine peo...

Plasma pyrolysis integrates thermo-chemical properties of plasma using pyrolysis process for safe disposal of solid wastes. It is an environment friendly technology to generate valuable byproducts by converting municipal solid waste, biomedical waste and hazardous wastes at 800-1000°C. Plasma Pyrolysis of plastic wastes generates pyrolysis gas, which can be utilized for energy recovery via diff...

Each day, 15,000 tons of sludge solids are removed from U.S. wastewater treatment plants. A combination of events has caused disposal of this sludge to build up to a major problem for an increasing number of communities. Municipal sanitary wastewater contains about 0.35 pounds of dry solids per person per day. Added to this load are various commercial and industrial wastes. Ever-greater quantit...