Waste management and the environment X
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Waste management and the environment X
（WIT transactions on ecology and the environment, 247）
WIT Press , Computational Mechanics International, c2020
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Waste management and the environment 10
Waste management and the environment ten
WM 20
Waste management 2020
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Includes bibliographical references and author index
"... 10th International Conference on Waste Management and the Environment (WM20), which was held from 7 to 9 July, 2020. The conference was jointly organized by Wessex Institute (UK), University of Naples Parthenope (Italy) and Nagoya University (Japan), and we planned this meeting initialy to take place at Madrid, Spain. However, the coronavirus pandemic did not allow us to open it as scheduled, and the conference committee decided to host the conference online."--Pref.
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Description
Waste Management is one of the key problems of modern society due to the ever-expanding volume and complexity of discarded domestic and industrial waste.
Society is increasingly aware of the need to establish better practices and safer solutions for waste disposal. This requires further investigation into disposal methods and recycling as well as new technologies to monitor landfills, industrial mining wastes and chemical and nuclear repositories.
This creates a need for more research on current disposal methods such as landfills, incineration, chemical and effluent treatment, as well as recycling, clean technologies, waste monitoring, public and corporate awareness and general education.
Unfortunately, many of the policies adopted in the past were aimed at short term solutions without due regard to the long term implications on health and the environment, leading in many cases to the need to take difficult and expensive remedial action.
The desired direction of Waste Management is towards sustainable strategies. The approach that has emerged as the most promising has been called 4Rs, where reduction, reuse, recycling and recovery are seen as the best actions. This largely decreases the volume of waste that needs final disposal. Recovery refers to the establishment of two new classifications, those of Secondary Raw Materials (SRM) and of Refuse Derived Fuel (RDF). They both relate to useful products obtained from waste and make a shift from the mere recycle or reuse - mostly seen as a way to reduce dumping - to the valuable employment of such matter within the production cycle.
Another aspect of this revolution is happening subtly and gradually by people buying waste; particularly eWaste and some types of plastic, the so-called technical waste. This is happening due to the strong demand and high price of certain new materials and the possibility of sorting out waste in developing regions of the world. As a result, a market in Secondary Raw Materials (SRM) has developed.
Covering various areas under the topic of Waste management, this volume contains a selection of papers presented at the 10th International Conference on Waste Management and the Environment.
Table of Contents
- Biodegradable plastics fragmentation in soil and water: Lessons learnt and comparative assessment with hydro-biodegradables
- Impact of gross domestic product change on municipal solid waste generation in Maputo, Mozambique
- Waste value potential analysis of municipal solid waste produced in the peri-urban area of Zhaoquanying, China
- Solid waste management at an international full-marathon running event in southern Thailand
- Improving the attitude and reaction towards municipal solid waste management in Mozambique
- Proposal for social indicators to improve municipal solid waste management: A Peruvian case study
- Composting strategy for developing cities: A case study of Beira, Mozambique
- Effect of surcharge height and preloading time on long-term settlement of closed landfills: A numerical analysis
- Compounding and processing hydro-biodegradable plastic films for plastic waste reduction. Part I: Processing conditions and environmental performance against plastic solid waste
- Compounding and processing hydro-biodegradable plastic films for plastic waste reduction. Part II: Thermal and chemical printing of virgin/waste polymeric blends
- Study of commercial thermoplastic biodegradable polyester resin as a solid waste mitigation route using ASTM D 5988-18
- Potential integrated smart waste segregation for all stakeholders
- Dry olive pomace gasification to obtain electrical energy in a downdraft gasifier
- In-situ backfilling experiment of the small scale drift by spray method in Mizunami Underground Research Laboratory, Japan
- Hazardous waste management in Costa Rica: An academic-small company collaboration
- Disposal or treatment: Future considerations for solid waste from the construction and demolition industry
- Development of an analytical reaction kinetics mathematical model based on thermogravimetric data for reclaimed plastic waste from active landfills
- Development of efficacy assessment procedure for disaster debris management in municipal governments in Japan
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