In November of 1997 an invitation was received to participate in a seminar in Hong Kong, that was concerned with solid waste management practices that are used outside their respective area. The thrust of the seminar, was to examine waste disposal techniques that are being employed throughout the world, and evaluate same for future use in the Chinese empire. Representatives from the Hong Kong a...

www.aana.com/aanajournalonline The goal of this project was to optimally sort waste material in the operating room (OR) environment and divert waste such that streams of low-cost disposal, including recyclable material, could be maximized. Using the Lean Six Sigma method, we followed 5 steps to define, measure, analyze, improve, and control. Descriptive statistics were used to describe OR chara...

A systematic, global and integration concept is applied upon garbage disposal problem caused by the substantial increase of garbage in China's cities and towns to promote the coordinated development of garbage stations. A kind of echelon pattern of urban circle solid waste disposal is put forward as well as five key technologies which are essential to be used in the pattern. The echelon pattern...

Safe disposal of nuclear waste is an important environmental challenge. Several countries are investigating deep geological disposal as a long-term solution for their high-level waste. In Belgium, the Oligocene Boom Clay is the reference host formation for research purposes and for the safety and feasibility assessment of the deep disposal of high-level and/or long-lived radioactive waste. The ...

The enormous increase in the quantum and diversity of waste materials and their potentially harmful effects on the general environment and public health, have led to an increasing awareness about an urgent need to adopt scientific methods for safe disposal of wastes. While there is an obvious need to minimize the generation of wastes and to reuse and recycle them, the technologies for recovery ...

Managing the growing quantity of used electronic equipment poses challenges for waste management officials. In this paper, we focus on a large component of the electronic waste stream— computer monitors—and the disposal concerns associated with the lead embodied in cathode ray tubes (CRTs) used in most monitors. We develop a policy simulation model of consumers’ disposal options based on the co...