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Population size and the quality of waste management systems largely determine which countries contribute the greatest mass of
uncaptured waste available to become plastic marine debris. Without waste management infrastructure improvements, the cumulative
quantity of plastic waste available to enter the ocean from land is predicted to increase by an order of magnitude by 2025.
Results showed that the landfilling of the undifferentiated organic waste has the least impact on the analyzed impact categories,
except on the Global Warming, mostly due to the uncollected methane released by the landfill. As regards the aerobic composting of
the source-segregated organic fraction, the efforts to reduce the impact should be mainly focused on the reduction of the air emissions
(hydrogen sulfide, particulate, ammonia and NMVOC) from the biostabilization process.
From the comparative study of
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treatment, effective landfill location and management, increase waste recycling and proper taxation system for MSW disposal are
essential to improve MSWM in China.
Based on the review findings the study concludes that zero waste concept has been applied widely in different phases of production
and waste management systems. The findings of the study assist to identify priority areas of zero waste strategy and to develop
national zero waste guidelines. Thus, this study can be useful to policy and decision makers in developing the evidence-based zero
waste guidelines.
The study concludes that installation of decentralized solid waste processing units in metropolitan cities/towns and development of
formal recycling industry sector is the need of the hour in developing countries like India.
The results of first step are to be utilized as a reliable data source in establishing a complete picture of the environmental
performances of municipal solid waste management systems with a life cycle perspective. According to the results, while landfilling
and incineration have been confirmed as the worst waste final disposal alternatives, composting and material recovery showed better
performance. The paper showed LCA to be a valuable tool which can help governors and managers plan an integrated waste
management strategy that provides more preferable environmental outcomes than the strategy suggested.
Simulation results show that (1) the use of prefabricated components exerts the largest influence on the design of construction waste
reduction, followed by few design modifications and waste reduction investment, (2) mutual effects exist among potential design
strategies, and (3) the combined effect of multi-design strategies is more significant than the simple sum of the effects of all single-
design strategies and thus demands full consideration of the combined effect of relevant potential design strategies.
The research findings reveal that of the five rating systems studied, the highest relative significance index of waste management is
given to Evaluation Standard for Green Building, while the lowest belongs to Green Building Index. In relation to the 3Rs principle,
Evaluation Standard for Green Building and Green Globes focus more on the reduce principle, while the other three systems propose
waste management measures that largely based on the reuse and recycle principles.
The review concludes that better education of healthcare workers and standardized sorting of medical waste streams are key avenues
for efficient waste management at healthcare facilities, and that further research is required given the trend in increased medical waste
production with increasing global GDP.
In this paper, the advantages from both of these techniques are combined and used for efficiently generating improved decision
alternatives. Solid waste decision makers faced with difficult and controversial choices would then interpret and analyze these
alternatives to internalize the environmental-economic tradeoffs prior to selecting their final policy.
In conclusion our study found that providing public with MSW infrastructures and improving citizens’ awareness about SW source
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behavior-changing interventions.
The findings reveal twenty six critical solutions for waste management. Five factors of solutions for waste management were
extracted from the exploratory factor analysis. These factors were: team building and supervision; strategic guidelines in waste
management; proper design and documentation; innovation in waste management decisions; and lifecycle management. The evidence
from this study suggests that both technologies and attitudinal approaches require improvement to eliminate/minimise waste
generation in construction projects.
Our results indicated that improving the structure of the pile (waste or manure heap) via addition or substitution of certain bulking
agents significantly reduced nitrous oxide (N2O) and methane (CH4) emissions by 53% and 71%, respectively. Turned composting
systems, unlike forced aerated composted systems, showed potential for reducing GHGs (N2O: 50% and CH4: 71%).
The findings were analysed considering the Gross National Income and the Human Development Index of each country. Effective
regulation and operative definitions of waste categories are key-factors requiring improvement at the national level.
Results show that integrating a sanitary landfill (18.1%), RDF (3.1%), composting (2%), anaerobic digestion (40.4%), and recycling
(36.4%) was an optimized model of integrated waste management. An applied decision-making structure provides the opportunity for
optimum decision-making.
As a result, legal forms of waste disposal and socially preferable management options are often undermined primarily through an
influence on policy enforcement. Given its high regional heterogeneity and local ‘waste crises’, Italy provides a compelling case for
the study of crime's effects on local waste performance.
This paper demonstrates the reliability of use of multi-criteria decision-making tool for the purpose of selecting the best municipal
solid waste management scenario among six different alternatives. The multi-criteria decision-making tool enables decision makers to
make informed decisions and achieve optimal results.
It is found that there is a notable CWM performance disparity between the public and private sectors, with contractors performing
better in managing both inert and non-inert waste in public projects than they do in private projects. Furthermore, the interviews and
case studies conducted as part of the research suggest that CWM transaction costs are not high enough to incentivize contractors to
manage waste conscientiously and therefore other institutional arrangements, such as promoting the value of environment protection
leadership, are critical for achieving superior CWM performance.
Based on these results, a hierarchy of progress factors for a waste minimization program in manufacturing is outlined: the 3R
Hierarchy must be preferred to a deadly waste (muda) analysis and combining the 3R Hierarchy and the deadly wastes of Lean
Management improves the performance of a waste minimization program in manufacturing.
This study confirms that LCA, if carefully conducted, allows the identification of criticalities and improvement potential towards new
management strategies. The use of site-specific data of full-scale waste treatment facilities and the definition of alternative waste
management hierarchies may help decision-making by local public administrators and stakeholders, providing a transparent picture
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and deep understanding of costs and benefits for waste management at local scale.
The results of this review encourage the application of MFA on both levels of goods and substances for decision making in waste
management. Because of the mass balance principle, this combination has proven to be a powerful tool for comprehensively
assessing if a chosen system reaches designated waste management goals.
These quantitate results and policy suggestions could be helpful to integrate the informal recycling system into municipal solid waste
management of the formal recycling systems.
The results from this study suggest a need for adaptive strategy based on the food waste type and composition and provide decision
makers in Singapore with insights into the three food waste management strategies and directions to improve the existing system.
The LCA results found landfilling of residual waste to be the dominant source of GHG burdens for the existing system, whilst
material reprocessing was found to result in GHG benefits. Overall, each of the alternative systems investigated were found to result
in lower GHG impacts compared to the existing system, with the diversion of food waste from the residual waste stream found to be
potentially the most effective strategy to reduce GHG emissions. The results of this study demonstrate that the complementary
methodologies of MFA and LCA can be used in combination to provide policy and decision makers with valuable information about
the environmental performance of SWM systems.
In this study, the challenges of solid waste (focusing on industrial waste e-waste, food waste and packaging waste), zero waste
practices, and zero waste strategy were discussed to analyze the challenges and opportunities to transform traditional waste
management toward zero waste vision. “Zero Waste” is a good solution to minimizing the increasing solid waste. However, in order
to minimize the solid waste, there are still more endeavors need to be done in future.
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The results showed that a lack of proper conditions for waste separation can prevent individuals from
participating in this process, regardless of their positive attitudes.
The findings show that factors explaining individual acceptance of these different waste management
policies (WMP) are essential for implementing proactive and preventive approaches to enhance
responsibility and involvement of all stakeholder groups (consumers, firms and institutions).
Results show that rate of waste generation in Ghana was 0.47 kg/person/day, which translates into
about 12,710 tons of waste per day per the current population of 27,043,093.
Results show that the more aware youths are concerning food waste, the more likely they are to
reduce leftovers. In contrast, the concern about food freshness increases waste. A greater awareness
of the consequences of food wasted increases the likelihood that youths will make a shopping list.
The outcomes of this research highlight a number of opportunities to improve local infrastructure and
operational capacity around solid waste management. Waste management in rural and urban areas
needs to be approached differently.
Prior to action plan implementation, it was found that pupils had poor knowledge on segregation, and
most did not segregate waste. Pupils wanted competition-based activities for SWM. To empower
pupils, the teachers utilized active learning strategies and practical applications.
Results revealed that the majority of the people in General Santos City often practice proper waste
management. The finding implies that they have not completely imbibed proper waste management
practices.
The findings of this study concluded that solid waste generation has a high significant relationship to
disposal practices. Finally, environmental attitudes and hazardous waste were found to be significant
relationship to disposal practices.
The data gathered and analyzed using student t-test showed that there is no significant difference in
the level of awareness among teaching and non-teaching employees in terms of the school’s chemical
waste management program.
The findings indicated that landfills for the entire components of the e-waste stream are the worst
option and should be avoided. The most promising e-waste management scenario features integrated
e-waste processes based on the concept of Integrated Waste Management (IWM), including recycling
materials such as non-PMs and PMs, incinerating plastic and the hazardous content of PCBs using
the energy recovered from incineration, and using sanitary landfills of residues.
The obtained results showed that both valorisation process and waste management treatments
presented similar impacts. However, a significant benefit can be achieved through valorisation of fish
by-products. Additionally, the implications of the possible presence of pollutants were discussed..
The results of this case study are used to argue that waste management planning should follow a
detailed process, adequately confronting the complexity of the waste management problems and the
specificity of each urban area and of regional/national situations.
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The study results revealed that the best possible solution for Estonian islands may be a non-deposit
system - including an additional charge on ferry ticket prices. The extra money should cover the costs
of waste management and waste shipping.
We find that a system of collecting food waste separately is more effective overall than imposing
weight-based waste tariffs in respect not only of reducing the amounts of waste destined for
incineration, but also of increasing materials recycling and biological recovery, despite the fact that
the direct incentive effects of these two systems should be similar.
Based on this result, the land area required for all the temporary storage sites for storing the
disaster waste was approximately 55ha. Although the public domain and private land area in this case
study is sufficient, several sites would be necessary to transport waste to other sites with enough
space because local space is scarce.
Results of performed analyses on the waste management drivers were integrated via the decision-
making process supported by an analytic hierarchy process (AHP). The final results of this research
shows that the Institutional-Administrative driver is the most important for developing a
sustainable waste management system.
Among other things, the results indicate the importance of monitoring and assessing policy and
regulations to examine whether regulation is in fact effective and whether it keeps track of its own
targets and goals or not.
This study shows that there are economic and environmental advantages associated with the use of
reverse logistics for solid waste treatment and recycling.
Major findings of the article include the irregularity of waste collection owing to a poor road
network, an inadequate transport infrastructure and the desire to maximise profit, as well as poor
waste handling and disposal methods by the private sector participation operators who are not chosen
based on competence and capacity to perform. Another major finding is the lack of cooperation from
residents evidenced in non-payment of bills and poor packaging of wastes, resulting in wastes being
littered.
It was found that delivering generated waste to regional waste management centers can result in the
most affordable environmental benefits for the representative municipalities.
he results show that better service of waste collection and transportation, less monthly expense,
extended landfill life, and satisfactory efficiency of the provided service at 60.48% will be achieved
at the end of the simulation period.
The obtained results show that the most sustainable scenario in both case studies is the mechanical-
biological treatment (recycling, composting and Refuse Derived Fuel production). Having in mind
that this scenario is the current waste management system in Sofia, these results can help decision-
makers in the City of Niš in choosing a successful and sustainable wastemanagement system.
The results showed that Macau residents owned a relatively high environmental awareness. In regard
to Macau environmental quality, most respondents (92.4 %) expressed their satisfactions on the
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current situation. About 50.2 % respondents thought that the solid waste pollution in Macau should
be paid more attention than the other three environmental pollution ways (air pollution, water
pollution, and soil pollution). The survey data revealed the positive attitudes toward source separation
in Macau.
Results show that waste management cost (45.5%) and suppliers’ details (31.5%) are the top two
main criteria for supplier selection; and storage cost (15.7%), waste handling cost (14.7%), and
qualification of the suppliers (10.9%) are the top three most important overall sub-criteria for supplier
selection for hospital waste management.
The first result observed was that the retailer stopped its monthly production of approximately
20 tonne of biotic and abiotic material, which influence global warming and degradation of the ozone
layer. Another result observed with the implementation of reverse logistics, was that the general
grocery department mostly used cardboard and plastic.