Liu, Bingchun Zhang, Lei Wang, Qingshan
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Waste management (New York, N.Y.)
Achieving accurate prediction of the Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) generation is essential for the sustainable development of the city. This paper selects Beijing as the research object, building a neural network model based on Grey Relational Analysis and Long and Short-Term Memory (GRA-LSTM), and choosing 14 influencing factors of MSW generation as...
Dawrea, A Zytner, R G Donald, J
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Waste management (New York, N.Y.)
Rau, Hsin Daniel Budiman, Syarif Monteiro, Charlotte N
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Waste management (New York, N.Y.)
In recent decades, issues of resource depletion and waste piling have grown at an alarming rate, which are happening in the cases of product wastes with significant residual values, such as e-waste. To address these issues, stakeholders have focused to develop a reverse supply chain (RSC) system that can sustain profitable takeback, reuse, and recy...
Azevedo, Bruno Duarte Scavarda, Luiz Felipe Caiado, Rodrigo Goyannes Gusmão Fuss, Maryegli
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Waste management (New York, N.Y.)
Countries worldwide strive to improve their urban household solid waste management (UHSWM) practices. While developed countries like Germany have achieved good results with different UHSWM initiatives, developing countries still struggle to be effective with their waste management (WM) policies. With an interest in learning from the German experien...
Kandlbauer, L Khodier, K Ninevski, D Sarc, R
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Waste management (New York, N.Y.)
To optimize output streams in mechanical waste treatment plants dynamic particle size control is a promising approach. In addition to relevant actuators - such as an adjustable shredder gap width - this also requires technology for online and real-time measurements of the particle size distribution. The paper at hand presents a model in MATLAB® whi...
Manasa, Vallamkondu Padmanabhan, Aparna Anu Appaiah, K A
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Waste management (New York, N.Y.)
Coffee pulp is one of the major underutilized byproduct of coffee processing in farm level. Disposal of this agro-industrial waste has become one of the most challenging tasks for coffee planters. However, most of the efforts are towards the management of coffee pulp as an effluent, and not-on re-use. The problem is compounded due to the large volu...
Chaudhary, Savita Kumari, Manisha Chauhan, Pooja Ram Chaudhary, Ganga
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Waste management (New York, N.Y.)
The profitable impact on ecological system made the upcycling of plastic waste as one of the captivating issues in scientific world. The current work highlights the sustainable approach to transform the plastic waste comprises of bottles, used cups and polyethylene bags via simple heating to fluorescent carbon dots (C-dots). The obtained C-dots hav...
Yi, Sora Lee, Hisun
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Waste management (New York, N.Y.)
This study explores how Korea's ELV recycling policy can be improved to meet the targeted ELV recycling rate by reviewing the characteristics of the recycling policies adopted in Korea and abroad and conducting an economic analysis of each step of the ELV recycling process, namely, dismantling (including waste gas treatment), shredding, and ASR rec...
Cheng, Cheng Zhu, Rui Thompson, Russell G Zhang, Lihai
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Waste management (New York, N.Y.)
Solid waste management (SWM) is a key issue for sustainable development and environment protection, and waste collection and transportation (WCT) is one of the most important steps in managing solid waste. A well-designed SWM system with optimised location and capacity of waste transfer stations (WTSs) and final disposal facilities (FDFs) plays a c...
Senturk, Gulsah Dumludag, Devrim
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Waste management (New York, N.Y.)
The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of the plastic bag fee (that was implemented in Turkey recently) on the consumer behavior. For this purpose, a face-to-face consumer survey with 821 respondents was conducted in Istanbul. A paired sample t-test was carried out in order to compare consumers' average frequency of using plastic bags, ...
