Gong, Ping Wang, Li Liu, Xiaolong Wei, Yigang
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Energy, Ecology & Environment
The construction of a ‘zero-waste city’ is a flagship policy to accelerate the development of a green, low-carbon circular economy system in China. Enhancing social participation is an important dimension to evaluate the effect of ‘zero-waste city’ policy construction and an effective way to promote the full achievement of correct waste classificat...
Osra, Faisal A. Osra, Khalid A. Jones, Paul Osra, Oumr A. Suhartini, Ninik Alzahrani, Jaber S. Mirza, Agha Zeeshan
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Arabian Journal of Geosciences
Rapid urban development and modernization in Makkah have led to an increase in urban infrastructure needs. The city of Makkah is a main destination for the global Islamic pilgrimage and is highly utilized for major infrastructure and building expansion including processes of densification. As a consequence of Hajj and Umrah activities, the city exp...
Sharma, Pooja Dutta, Deblina Udayan, Aswathy Nadda, Ashok Kumar Lam, Su Shiung Kumar, Sunil
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Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987)
The presence of heavy metals in municipal solid waste (MSW) is considered as prevalent global pollutants that cause serious risks to the environment and living organisms. Due to industrial and anthropogenic activities, the accumulation of heavy metals in the environmental matrices is increasing alarmingly. MSW causes several adverse environmental i...
Long, Hua Huang, Xinyu Liu, Meijia Cui, Changhao Li, Li Liao, Yang Yan, Dahai
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Journal of environmental management
The improper disposal of large amounts of solid waste (SW) has led to serious ecological and environmental problems, especially heavy metal (HM) pollution. Converter steelmaking has the potential to co-process SW, but the distribution of heavy metals (HMs) during converter steelmaking is unclear. In this study, the effects of smelting temperature a...
Rubab, Saddaf Khan, Malik M. Uddin, Fahim Abbas Bangash, Yawar Taqvi, Syed Ali Ammar
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Chembioeng Reviews
Pandemic like COVID‐19, call for a greater emphasis on the waste management processes and strategies. This can be efficiently managed by the introduction of technology including artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), were made to address the gigantic challenge of halting the spread of the viral disease at a global scale as well as ...
Mozhiarasi, Velusamy Natarajan, Thillai Sivakumar
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Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery
The slaughterhouse and poultry industry is possibly one of the fastest-growing sectors driven by the increasing demand in food availability. Subsequently, the wastes produced from the slaughterhouse and poultry industry are in huge quantities, which could be a promising resource for the recovery of value added products, and bioenergy production to ...
Faria, Carolina Freitas [UNIFESP]
A costa brasileira é extensa – possui mais de 8 mil km de extensão e é afetada por diversos contaminantes, como os resíduos sólidos, e entre eles se destacam a contaminação por plástico e bitucas de cigarro. Destarte, o lixo marinho é amplamente distribuído em diversos ecossistemas, como as praias arenosas, que sofrem com os impactos relacionados d...
Khan, Shahab Ud-Din Khan, Riaz Hussain, Shahid
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Applied Nanoscience
In the recent past, plasma waste technology has emerged to be an environmental friendly and beneficial technology. In this review, current status of thermal plasma, non-thermal plasma and its application for nano-scale high-tech plasmonic materials based on the scientific and technical comprehensive observation are included. Generally, thermal plas...
Nuripuoh, Joseph Gyea Duwiejuah, Abudu Ballu Bakobie, Noel
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Discover Sustainability
Waste picking is a pivotal in achieving sustainable waste management, environment health and economic development in the era of sustainable development. The study assessed the practices, knowledge, perception and health risk protection behaviours of waste scavengers in the Gbalahi landfill site. A total of 60 scavengers were conveniently sampled an...
Morales Corozo, Juan Pablo
In Ecuador, the municipal decentralized autonomous governments have the competence of the integral management of solid waste from the collection, transport, treatment and final disposal of solid waste, within the development plans and territorial ordering, including projects aimed at the elimination of polluting sources. The main objective of the r...
