This study aimed to identify the metal flow in a municipal solid waste (MSW) management system. Outputs of a resource recovery facility, refuse derived fuel (RDF) production facility, carbonization facility, plastics liquefaction facility, composting facility, and bio-gasification facility were analyzed for metal content and leaching concentration. In terms of metal content, bulky and incombust...

Waste management is an important part to achieve green and sustainable campus. This study aims evaluate waste implementation in higher education. The methodology used this a cross sectional with non-probabilistic sampling. Data were collected using well-structured evaluation instrument through online focus group discussion, document review evidence of implementation. consists 10 elements: polic...

This comprehensive work explores the research performed inoptimization of the collection bin and in recycle bin location-allocation issues in solidwaste management. Although the collection phase of solid waste management accountsfor a significant proportion of the municipal budget, it has attracted only limitedattention of the researchers. Optimization of the collection bin and recycle bin loca...

The aim of this paper is to present and compare alternative hierarchical formulations for the periodic vehicle routing problem applied to solid waste collection. The solution of this problem is a one-week plan of daily routes for the transportation of mixed solid waste from containers to disposal facilities, taking into consideration the frequency of collection of each container within the plan...

How Much Waste is Wasteful? Although medical and infectious wastes are often highlighted in evaluations of Hospital Solid Waste Composition a hospital’s waste stream, these hazardous wastes constitute only 15% of a hospital’s total waste generation. The remaining 85% of a hospital’s waste, which is Other 10% Wood 3% Glass 7% Plastics 15% Food 10% Metals 10% Paper 45% considered to be nonhazardo...

Abstract Bad choices in municipal waste (MW) management cause negative effects on sustainability. Evolving regulation has identified prevention and recycling as the best strategies; nevertheless, disposal landfilling sites plays an essential role since a complete zero-waste scenario is not realistic, currently. Nowadays, policies require preliminary stabilization to decrease putrescible content...

solid waste pollution, like the other environmental problems, is assuming serious dimensions in delhi. from the last few decades, the study area has been experiencing a significant increase in the generation of solid waste that is adversely affecting its physical environment and is creating aesthetic problems. the current study reviews the data on the quantity of municipal solid waste generatio...

This paper considers a truck scheduling problem in the context of solid waste collection in Porto Alegre, Brazil. The problem consists of designing ``good" daily truck schedules over a set of previously defined collection trips, on which the trucks collect the solid waste in fixed routes and empty the loads in one of the several operational recycling facilities in the system. The main objective...