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Atamanova, Olga V., Elena I. Tikhomirova, Alexey V. Koshelev, Anton V. Aleksashin, and Andrey L. Podolsky. "Method of transforming unauthorized dump into municipal solid waste landfill." E3S Web of Conferences 161 (2020): 01071. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202016101071.

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We resolved the issue of eliminating unauthorized dumps of municipal solid waste (MSW). The MSW placement problem attracts special attention of the urban residents in the Russian Federation. However, the number of unauthorized MSW dumps in our country continues to increase. The accumulation of municipal waste in certain localities of urbanized centers, as well as in unauthorized dumps near residential areas is a serious problem for the environment and human health. MSW decomposition products lead to chemical, physical, and biological pollution of the lithosphere, hydrosphere and atmosphere. It is difficult to eliminate unauthorized dumps of municipal solid waste, since it is virtually impossible to have advance knowledge about the places of their formation. The objects of our investigation were MSW dumps. We conducted laboratory studies on the composition of wastewaters from the areas of unauthorized dumps within Saratov region, and discovered that precipitation-generated runoff from unauthorized dumps contained manifold excesses of toxic pollutants (heavy metals, organic matter, etc.). We proposed an original method for converting unauthorized dumps of solid household waste into the MSW landfills. The method includes two components: vertical planning of previously formed dump volume and annular surrounding drainage of the open type. The drainage ditch is connected to the water-collecting well, which is linked to the water storage tank joined, in its turn, to the water treatment plant.
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Zelenskii, S. I., Ya N. Scolyarov, and A. I. Dudinskii. "Utilization of municipal solid waste from unauthorised dumps." Ecology and Industry of Russia 25, no. 6 (June 22, 2021): 4–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.18412/1816-0395-2021-6-4-9.

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A modern, mobile energy complex for processing and disposal of solid municipal waste is presented. The analysis of existing similar mobile installations, technological schemes is carried out to determine the most effective scheme. Dismantled and selected the main and auxiliary equipment for the processing of solid municipal waste. The equipment used in the proposed installation will significantly increase the efficiency of collecting useful secondary fractions, and almost completely get rid of tailings sent to landfills for storage.
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Shwetmala, Kashyap, H. N. Chanakya, and T. V. Ramachandra. "Pattern, Characterization and Quantification of Unauthorized Waste Dump Sites: A Case Study of Bangalore." Journal of Solid Waste Technology and Management 47, no. 2 (May 1, 2021): 362–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.5276/jswtm/2021.362.

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Developing country municipal solid waste management is complex, managed by multiple institutions, prone to socio-political disruptions and often requires frequent and rapid estimates of good functioning. Estimating the quantity, composition and status of municipal solid waste found at unauthorized dump sites helps in diagnosis and in improving solid waste management system. The objective of this study was to find occurrences of unauthorized dump sites and to determine quantity, area, height of dumps, waste density and waste composition at these sites. A total of 452 locations were identified and quantification of solid wastes was carried out at 268 locations by determining waste spread area, measuring dump height and density by multiple techniques. Mixed dumped wastes at site was physically segregated into twelve waste categories (organic fraction, plastic, construction debris, paper, cloth, glass, leather, metal, rubber, biomedical waste, burnt waste and industrial wastes). It was estimated about 213310 Mg of wastes were dumped in 452 unauthorized dump sites. The composition of waste dumped in unauthorized sites have 41.3% of construction debris followed by 28.9% of organic waste and other fractions constituted the remaining. The waste composition at dump site suggests less efficient recycling systems and the possible direction for the system improvements.
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Blight, Geoffrey. "Slope failures in municipal solid waste dumps and landfills: a review." Waste Management & Research 26, no. 5 (October 2008): 448–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0734242x07087975.

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Datta, Manoj, and Amit Kumar. "Assessment of Subsurface Contamination Potential of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) Dumps." Indian Geotechnical Journal 47, no. 4 (June 20, 2017): 410–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40098-017-0247-5.

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Nnaji, Charles Chidozie. "Status of municipal solid waste generation and disposal in Nigeria." Management of Environmental Quality: An International Journal 26, no. 1 (January 12, 2015): 53–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/meq-08-2013-0092.

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Purpose – This paper examined the current status of municipal solid waste management across Nigeria. The core aspects covered are generation, characterization, collection, scavenging, open dumping, disposal and environmental implications of poor solid waste management. The purpose of this paper is to present a comprehensive overview of the current state of municipal solid waste management in Nigeria. Design/methodology/approach – This study was executed by a combination of an extensive literature search and field study. Solid waste generation rates for 31 Nigerian cities were obtained from literature. In addition, characteristics of municipal solid waste from 26 Nigerian cities were also obtained from literature. Other aspects such as characterization of solid waste obtained from final dumpsite and heavy metals accumulation in solid waste dumpsites were undertaken first hand. Findings – Solid waste generation rate was found to vary from 0.13 kg/capita/day in Ogbomosho to 0.71 kg/capita/day in Ado-Ekiti. Factors affecting solid waste generation rates were identified. Typically, food waste was found to constitute close to 50 percent of overall municipal solid waste in Nigerian cities. This study shows that the rate of generation of plastics, water proof materials and diapers has assumed an upward trend. Due to the dysfunctional state of many municipal waste management authorities, many cities have been overrun by open dumps. For instance, more than 50 percent of residents of Maiduguri in northern Nigeria and Ughelli in southern Nigeria dispose of their waste in open dumps. Indiscriminate disposal of waste has also resulted in the preponderance of toxic heavy metals in agricultural soils and consequent bioaccumulation in plants as well as groundwater contamination. Research limitations/implications – The main limitation of this research is municipal waste management authorities do not have relevant data. Hence, there was heavy reliance on published materials. The status of waste management in Nigeria is very deplorable and therefore poses serious threats to public and environmental health. There is urgent need for both government and individuals to adopt holistic and sustainable waste management strategies in order to safeguard public/environmental health. Practical implications – Findings from this paper can form a veritable resource for the formulation and implementation of sustainable municipal solid waste management framework and strategies in Nigeria. Originality/value – While most studies on municipal solid waste management in Nigeria are focussed on selected cities of interest, this particular study cuts across most cities of Nigeria in order to present a broader and holistic view of municipal solid waste management in Nigeria. The paper has also unraveled core municipal solid waste management challenges facing Nigerian cities.
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Neto, Octavio Pimenta Reis. "Economic Viability for a Large-Scale Model of Municipal Solid Waste Treatment in the Most Important Brazilian Economic Region." International Journal of Innovative Science and Research Technology 5, no. 5 (June 10, 2020): 1377–415. http://dx.doi.org/10.38124/ijisrt20may595.

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Despite the National Policy for Solid Waste (PNRS) in 2010, nothing has changed to the waste disposal in Brazil. Planned to reach 100% of all Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) collected and treated in landfills by Aug. 2 nd, 2014, until nowadays, 42% of this total remains in dumps. Even the most important national economic region treating its urban waste in landfills, what it has is no more than 4% of recycling and its landfills reaching the exhaustion.
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Faitli, J., S. Nagy, R. Romenda, I. Gombkötő, L. Bokányi, and L. Barna. "Assessment of a residual municipal solid waste landfill for prospective ‘landfill mining’." Waste Management & Research 37, no. 12 (October 29, 2019): 1229–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0734242x19881197.

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Landfill mining is a prospective tool for the recycling of valuable materials (waste-to-material) and secondary fuel (waste-to-energy) from old, therefore more or less stabilised municipal solid waste landfills. The main target of Horizon 2020 ‘SMARTGROUND’ R&D was improving the availability and accessibility of data and information from both urban landfills and mining dumps through a set of activities to integrate all the data – from existing sources and new information retrieved with time progress – in a single EU database. Concerning urban landfills, a new sampling protocol was designed on the basis of the current Hungarian national municipal solid waste analysis standards, optimised for landfill mining. This protocol was then applied in a sampling campaign on a municipal solid waste landfill in Debrecen, Hungary. The composition and parameters of the landfilled materials were measured as a 12-year timescale. The total wet and dry mass of the valuable components possible for utilisation was estimated.
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PRYKHODKO, Veronika, Tamerlan SAFRANOV, and Tatyana SHANINA. "Issues of Biodegradable Components in Municipal Solid Waste: Short Overview of the Problem and its Possible Solution in Ukraine." Architecture, Civil Engineering, Environment 15, no. 2 (June 1, 2022): 157–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/acee-2022-0023.

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Abstract The paper focuses on the problem of biodegradable waste in municipal solid waste in Ukraine. More then 60% of the total municipal solid waste mass in Ukraine is biodegradable waste. At present, this waste group is almost completely dumped on waste disposal sites and landfills that lead to “resource value” loss and to environmental problems. The work presents a classification of the group of biodegradable waste in municipal solid waste as well as quantitative characteristics of the group and the results of data variability analysis. Methane emission and disruption of the natural cycles of nutrients, in particular carbon, are considered as the environmental problems, related to such waste disposal on the waste dumps. Based on the biodegradable waste classification, the main possible ways of the problem solution that will help to achieve a “zero waste” goal for this group are presented. Efficient use of such waste as recyclable material resources is possible in case of easily-decomposed organic waste separation at the waste generation moment.
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Ramaiah, B. J., G. V. Ramana, and Manoj Datta. "Mechanical characterization of municipal solid waste from two waste dumps at Delhi, India." Waste Management 68 (October 2017): 275–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wasman.2017.05.055.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Municipal solid dumps"

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Morais, Daisy Castro. "DESCRIÇÃO ECOEPIDEMIOLÓGICA DA COMUNIDADE DO LIXÃO MUNICIPAL DE IMPERATRIZ-MA." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Goiás, 2013. http://localhost:8080/tede/handle/tede/2921.

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The Landfills, beyond of to health problems with the proliferation of disease vectors, also constitute a serious social issue. Many poor people are dumpsters a form of livelihood and this environment is that these guys can survive. In this context the present study aims to describe the profile of the community eco epidemiologic Municipal Dump Imperatriz-MA, as well as the socioeconomic profile of the city scavengers; discover the sanitation and health of the community that lives municipal landfill and verify for differences in health conditions, work and health among groups of workers subdivided as education, sexual characteristics and age. The study is exploratory in nature with a quantitative approach. It was developed at the municipal dump Imperatriz-MA, 45 the subjects scavengers that community of a population of 51 families. We observed 42.2% (19) females and 57.8% (26) male, 91.2% (41) to receive 0 Os lixões, além dos problemas sanitários com a proliferação de vetores de doenças, também constituem em sério problema social. Muitas pessoas carentes encontram nos lixões uma forma de subsistência e é desse ambiente que esses sujeitos conseguem sua sobrevivência. Nesse contexto a presente pesquisa se propõe a descrever o perfil ecoepidemiológico da comunidade do Lixão Municipal de Imperatriz-MA, bem como, o perfil socioeconômico dos catadores de lixo do município; identificar as condições de saneamento e de saúde que vive a comunidade do lixão municipal e verificar se há diferenças quanto às condições sanitárias, trabalho e saúde entre grupos de trabalhadores subdivididos quanto a escolaridade, gênero e idade. O estudo é de natureza exploratória com abordagem quantitativa. Foi desenvolvido no lixão municipal de Imperatiz-MA, tendo como sujeitos 45 catadores de lixo daquela comunidade de uma população de 51 famílias. Foi observado 42,2% (19) do gênero feminino e 57,8% (26) masculino,91,2% (41) recebem de 0 < 1salário e 55,5% (25) declaram ter outra fonte de renda sendo que desses 95,5% recebem bolsa família (43),Que conhecem os equipamentos de proteção individual são 71% (32) e ainda que desconhece são 6,7% (3) trabalhadores do lixão municipal.Quanto ao uso dos EPIs 53,3% (24) disseram usar apenas botas, 17,8% (8) e apenas 4,5% (2) disseram fazer uso de botas, luvas e máscaras. Dos 45 catadores entrevistados 62,1% (28) disseram já ter sofrido algum acidente com material perfuro cortante.Os resultados obtidos com essa pesquisa podem ser utilizados para subsidiar políticas públicas municipais com o intuito de favorecer condições dignas de trabalho e vida dessa comunidade.
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Katumua, Alberto Artur. "Avaliação da gestão de resíduos sólidos urbanos na cidade do Lobito-Angola." Master's thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10316/97229.

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Dissertação de Mestrado em Geociências, Ambiente e Ordenamento, apresentada à Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra.
Os resíduos sólidos urbanos (RSU) em Angola constituem uma das principais preocupações ambientais das autoridades locais. O sistema de gestão dos resíduos sólidos em Angola caracteriza-se quase exclusivamente pela sua recolha e transporte para lixeiras, realizado pelas empresas AmbiÁfrica e Envirobac, sob a supervisão da Administração Local, mas nem todas as áreas periféricas de Lobito beneficiam de sistemas de deposição e gestão dos resíduos. Este estudo tem como objetivo caracterizar o sistema de gestão dos resíduos sólidos urbanos na cidade do Lobito. Analisar as práticas atuais do sistema de descarte dos resíduos, sistema de recolha, transporte e deposição final dos resíduos. Pretende-se também avaliar o conhecimento da população em relação ao tema da gestão de resíduos, a sua satisfação com o atual sistema de gestão e a sua disposição em aceitar e colaborar com novas ferramentas de gestão. A questão em análise (a gestão de RSU no Lobito) é de certa maneira complexa em função de alguns aspetos intervenientes e para tal realizaram-se entrevistas da população e foram feitos inquéritos por questionário a 102 moradores nas duas zonas da cidade, de ambos os sexos, sem esquecer as observações diretas e imagens fotográficas das zonas em estudo no documento. Os resultados obtidos junto dos inquiridos revela que a grande maioria deposita o lixo cada 3 dias, em contentores privados que se situam a menos de 50 m da sua residência, demorando no trajeto menos de 20 minutos. Apenas existe separação de resíduos em 2% dos casos, sendo o destino preferencial dos resíduos separados a alimentação de animais e a reutilização de embalagens. A queima de lixo é praticada em 45% dos casos, sendo realizada em terrenos baldios. As observações de campo e os resultados dos indicadores angolanos sobre o destino dos resíduos (INE, 2014) não corroboram estas conclusões. Atendendo ao rácio de habitantes por contentor, para uma cidade com a dimensão da cidade do Lobito, e à quantidade de resíduos observados no chão, ao longo das estradas e junto aos mercados não parece credível que a deposição de RSU se faça quase exclusivamente em contentores.
The management of municipal solid waste in Angola is a major concern for the authorities. The solid waste management system in the municipality of Lobito, Benguela province, is characterized only by the collection, transport and deposition of trash in the usual dump, located north of Lobito. The collection of containers and the cleaning system is accomplished by the companies AmbiÁfrica and Envirobac under the supervision of Local Government, however not all the peripheral areas benefit from the deposition system and waste management. Contrary to the landfill, dumps are potential sources of environmental problems and may have impacts on the soil and groundwater. The issue under examination (RSU-Lobito management) is a complex one. So, a survey was made by questionnaire to 102 residents of both genders, in the urban and peripheral areas of Lobito, without forgetting the direct observation, and the analysis of photographic images of the studied areas. The results obtained from the respondents revealed that most of them deposit the trash every 3 days, in private containers that are located less than 50 meters from their residence, taking the path less than 20 minutes. There is only waste separation in 2% of cases, the preferred destination of the separated waste is animal feed and reuse of packaging. Garbage burning is practiced in 45% of cases being held in wastelands. Field observations and the results of the Angolan indicators on the disposal of waste (INE, 2014) do not support these conclusions. Given the ratio of inhabitants per container for a city with the size of the city of Lobito and the amount of residues observed on the ground, along the roads and around the markets it does not seem credible that the deposition of MSW is done almost exclusively in containers.
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Books on the topic "Municipal solid dumps"

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Vasconcelos Júnior, Moisés Rita. Implantação do aterro sanitário no município de Marituba-PA e os efeitos sobre as comunidades do entorno. Brazil Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.31012/978-65-5861-153-0.

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The municipality of Marituba, Metropolitan Region of Belém - RMB, has suffered environmental impacts due to irregularities in the landfill operation implemented in 2015, which triggered social impacts perceived by all the population, including neighboring municipalities, such as Ananindeua and Belém Protests were carried out by the Movement Outside the Garbage that is constituted by the dwellings of the surrounding neighborhoods to the place where the embankment is located, of owners of commercial activities linked to the tourism and Non Governmental Organizations that interrupted several times the transit of the main route that interconnects the seven municipalities of the RMB and the entrance of the embankment, in order to draw the attention of the municipal public power to the problems that the population would have been facing ever since. From this, the following questions arose: What social impacts would people be making in these protests? Would such problems be directly related to the activities carried out in the landfill? And finally, what are the actions of the public authority and the company that manages the enterprise in the management of these social impacts? The relevance of this study concerns not only the identification of social impacts considering the fragility of this approach in the Environmental Impact Studies and concomitantly in the Reports of Environmental Impacts, but also, from the point of view of the debate about the licensing process of enterprises of this nature and employment and the need for the joint use of environmental and urban policy instruments, considering that RMB municipalities have not yet used sustainable alternatives for the reduction of solid waste produced in their territories, as well as the reduction of environmental impacts caused by dumps , and in the case of Marituba, of the landfill that operates outside the standards established by the Brazilian Association of Technical Standards - ABNT, which is responsible for the management and treatment of solid waste and the National Policy on Solid Waste - PNRSN.
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Book chapters on the topic "Municipal solid dumps"

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Datta, Manoj, Amit Kumar, and Riya Bhowmik. "Rehabilitation and Expansion of Operational Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) Dumps of India." In Developments in Geotechnical Engineering, 57–67. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4077-1_7.

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Singh, Ayush, Roshan Vilasrao Mankhair, and Munish Kumar Chandel. "Open Dumps and Circular Economy: Assessing Landfill Mining Potential, Benefits and Challenges for Indian Dumpsites." In Circular Economy in Municipal Solid Waste Landfilling: Biomining & Leachate Treatment, 47–63. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-07785-2_3.

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Agarwal, A., M. Datta, G. V. Ramana, and R. Satyakam. "Improving the Slope Stability of Municipal Solid Waste Dumps Using Reinforced Soil Berms: A Case Study." In Proceedings of the 8th International Congress on Environmental Geotechnics Volume 2, 18–25. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2224-2_3.

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Yadav, Himanshu, Lalit Kumar, and V. P. Singh. "Decision-Making Rating System for Prioritization of Municipal Solid Waste Dumps for Closure Based on Aesthetics." In Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, 85–93. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-9554-7_7.

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Yirenya-Tawiah, Dzidzo, Ted Annang, Benjamin Dankyira Ofori, Benedicta Yayra Fosu-Mensah, Elaine Tweneboah Lawson, Richard Yeboah, Kwaku Owusu-Afriyie, et al. "Urban Waste as a Resource: The Case of the Utilisation of Organic Waste to Improve Agriculture Productivity Project in Accra, Ghana." In Organic Waste Composting through Nexus Thinking, 123–45. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36283-6_6.

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AbstractPoor municipal solid waste management continues to be a daunting issue for municipal authorities in Ghana. Major cities generate 2000 tonnes of mixed municipal waste per day, of which about 80% is collected and disposed of at open dump sites and/or at the limited number of landfills available. About 60% of this waste is organic. The Utilization of Organic Waste to Improve Agricultural Productivity (UOWIAP) project sought to co-create knowledge through a private-public engagement for the development of organic waste value chain opportunities to sustainably manage municipal organic waste and, at the same time, improve urban farm soils and increase food productivity in the Ga-West Municipal Assembly in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. Through the project, identified key stakeholders in the waste and agricultural sectors, such as market traders, informal waste collectors, unemployed persons, farmers, landscapers, media, agricultural extension officers, Municipal Assembly officers and the general public, were engaged and made aware of sustainable organic waste management processes, including organic waste segregation from source, collection and compost production. Four formal markets were selected for the piloting of organic waste segregation from source. Interested persons were trained in organic waste collection, compost production and entrepreneurship. The lessons learned draw attention to the need for a massive effort to generate demand for compost use as this will invariably drive removal of organic waste from the unsorted waste stream.
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Winkler, Igor, and Grygoriy Zharykov. "Solid Municipal Wastes in Ukraine: A Case Study of Environmental Threats and Management Problems of the Chernivtsi Dump Area." In Understanding and Managing Threats to the Environment in South Eastern Europe, 265–77. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0611-8_14.

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Manoj Kumar, N., and M. Chaithanya Sudha. "Characterization of Leachate and Groundwater in and Around Saduperi Municipal Solid Waste Open Dump Site, Vellore District, Tamil Nadu, India." In Energy, Environment, and Sustainability, 279–99. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7413-4_15.

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Prasad, M. N. V. "Engineered Phyto-Covers as Natural Caps for Containment of Hazardous Mine and Municipal Solid Waste Dump Sites–Possible Energy Sources." In Phytoremediation for Green Energy, 55–68. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7887-0_3.

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Chatsiwa, Jaison, Never Mujere, and Avhatendi Bethania Maiyana. "Municipal Solid Waste Management." In Advances in Environmental Engineering and Green Technologies, 19–43. IGI Global, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-9723-2.ch002.

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The rapid increase in urban population has resulted in poor environmental conditions in urban and peri-urban settlements. In most developing countries, the problem of inefficient municipal solid waste management (MSWM) is endemic. The problem manifests in heaps of uncollected solid waste or ubiquitous illegal dumps on open areas and by the street sides. This paper examines issues of solid waste management practices in the City of Kwekwe in Zimbabwe. It highlights types of waste, its generation, transfer and disposal. A mixed methodological approach including field observations, structured questionnaire survey and face-to-face interviews were employed in the gathering of data for the study. The key findings established to be the factors affecting effective solid waste management in the City are irregular solid waste collection, inadequate operational funding, inappropriate technologies, inadequate staffing, lack of knowledge cooperation and knowledge on the part of the residents. Based on the research findings, principles of environmental stewardship need to be promoted in the City.
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Menichelli, Beatriz Hanada, Benone Otávio Souza de Oliveira, and Gerson Araújo de Medeiros. "Life cycle assessment for municipal solid waste management scenarios in Humaitá, state of Amazonas: the impact of including collection in indigenous areas." In DEVELOPMENT AND ITS APPLICATIONS IN SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE. Seven Editora, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.56238/devopinterscie-131.

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In the Amazon, around 80% of the municipalities dispose of their waste in open-air dumps, challenging government agencies to find alternatives for its management. In this context, the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology has been used to analyze the environmental impact of municipal solid waste (MSW) management system scenarios. The objective of this chapter was to analyze municipal solid waste management scenarios, based on the LCA methodology, in the municipality of Humaitá, state of Amazonas, including the collection of waste from indigenous communities. This study included secondary data from articles published by a research partnership between the São Paulo State University (Unesp) and the Federal University of Amazonas (UFAM). The LCA followed the model proposed by ISO 14040 and 14044 and was performed using the Simapro software. The environmental impact category assessed corresponded to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, expressed in kgCO2eq. Three scenarios were evaluated: a) Base scenario (CB): which corresponded to the collection of waste from the urban area of Humaitá, transport, and disposal in a sanitary landfill; b) Scenario 1 (C1): which corresponded to CB with the inclusion of the collection of waste generated in indigenous areas; c) Scenario 2 (C2): corresponded to C1, excluding organic waste, which would be destined for composting. The analysis of the inventories of each scenario led to the conclusion that including the collection of solid waste from indigenous reserves would increase GHG emissions by 4%.
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Conference papers on the topic "Municipal solid dumps"

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Curtiss, Peter S., and Jan F. Kreider. "Life Cycle Analysis of Automotive Ethanol Produced From Municipal Solid Waste." In ASME 2009 3rd International Conference on Energy Sustainability collocated with the Heat Transfer and InterPACK09 Conferences. ASMEDC, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/es2009-90327.

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The trend of increasing petroleum prices has prompted the consideration of other fuels for transportation. Ethanol has received a great deal of attention based on the hope that it is possible to develop a sustainable and relatively environmentally responsible alternative to gasoline. Currently, the biofuels industry depends heavily on the use of cereal crops as the feedstock for the ethanol refineries. This practice, however, has led to concern over the diversion of food supplies to fuel supplies; price increases of corn and corn-dependent products (milk, beef, etc.) have already been blamed on the market forces pushing crops towards fuel production. Additionally, sufficient land water exist in the US for cereal crop-based biofuels. Another method for producing ethanol uses waste products as the main feedstock. The waste can consist of anything fermentable — agricultural field remnants, yard clippings, and paper and food waste all are potentially inputs to the ethanol production process. An added benefit of such a system is the decrease in the amount of material that must be disposed in landfills or dumps. This paper briefly discusses the conversion of municipal solid waste (MSW) to ethanol for use as an automotive replacement fuel.
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Baridoma, Moses. "Effect of Municipal Solid Waste Dumps on Investment Property Values. A Case Study of Port Harcourt, Nigeria." In 25th Annual European Real Estate Society Conference. European Real Estate Society, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.15396/eres2016_202.

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"EFFECT OF MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE DUMPS ON INVESTMENT PROPERTY VALUE. A CASE STUDY OF D-LINE NEIGHBORHOOD IN PORT HARCOURT NIGERIA." In 17th Annual European Real Estate Society Conference: ERES Conference 2010. ERES, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.15396/eres2010_245.

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Bhada, Perinaz, and Nickolas J. Themelis. "Potential for the First WTE Facility in Mumbai (Bombay) India." In 16th Annual North American Waste-to-Energy Conference. ASMEDC, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/nawtec16-1930.

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The city of Mumbai (Bombay), India is facing a solid waste management crisis. The infrastructure has been unable to keep pace with economic development and population growth, resulting in insufficient collection of municipal solid waste (MSW) and over-burdened dumps. Improper disposal of solid wastes over several decades and open burning of garbage have led to serious environmental pollution and health problems. This study examined the solid waste management process in Mumbai and the potential for implementation of waste-to-energy facilities. Mumbai’s average per capita waste generation rate is 0.18 tonnes per person. Although the reported collection efficiency of MSW is 90%, almost half of the city’s 12 million people live in slums, some of which do not have access to solid waste services. The most pressing problem is the acute shortage of space for landfilling. When the present waste dumps were constructed they were at the outskirts of the city, but now they are surrounded by housing colonies, thus exposing millions of people to daily inconveniences such as odors, traffic congestion, and to more serious problems associated with air, land, and water pollution and the spread of diseases from rodents and mosquitoes. Mumbai is the financial center of India and has the highest potential for energy generation from the controlled combustion of solid wastes. The lower heating value of MSW is estimated in this study to be 9 MJ/kg, which is slightly lower than the average MSW combusted in the E.U. (10 MJ/kg). The land for the first WTE in Mumbai would be provided by the City and there is a market for the electricity generated by the WTE facility. The main problem to overcome is the source of capital since the present “tipping fees” are very low and inadequate to make the operation profitable and thus attract private investors. Therefore, the only hope is for the local government and one or more philanthropists in Mumbai to team up in financing the first WTE in India as a beacon that improves living conditions in Mumbai, reduces the City’s dependence on the import of fossil fuels, and lights the way for other cities in India to follow.
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Themelis, Nickolas J. "Current Status of Global WTE." In 20th Annual North American Waste-to-Energy Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/nawtec20-7061.

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This paper is based on data compiled in the course of developing, for InterAmerican Development Bank (IDB), a WTE Guidebook for managers and policymakers in the Latin America and Caribbean region. As part of this work, a list was compiled of nearly all plants in the world that thermally treat nearly 200 million tons of municipal solid wastes (MSW) and produce electricity and heat. An estimated 200 WTE facilities were built, during the first decade of the 21st century, mostly in Europe and Asia. The great majority of these plants use the grate combustion of as-received MSW and produce electricity. The dominance of the grate combustion technology is apparently due to simplicity of operation, high plant availability (>90%), and facility for training personnel at existing plants. Novel gasification processes have been implemented mostly in Japan but a compilation of all Japanese WTE facilities showed that 84% of Japan’s MSW is treated in grate combustion plants. Several small-scale WTE plants (<5 tons/hour) are operating in Europe and Japan and are based both on grate combustion and in implementing WTE projects. This paper is based on the sections of the WTE Guidebook that discuss the current use of WTE technology around the world. Since the beginning of history, humans have generated solid wastes and disposed them in makeshift waste dumps or set them on fire. After the industrial revolution, near the end of the 18th century, the amount of goods used and then discarded by people increased so much that it was necessary for cities to provide landfills and incinerators for disposing wastes. The management of urban, or municipal, solid wastes (MSW) became problematic since the middle of the 20th century when the consumption of goods, and the corresponding generation of MSW, increased by an order of magnitude. In response, the most advanced countries developed various means and technologies for dealing with solid wastes. These range from reducing wastes by designing products and packaging, to gasification technologies. Lists of several European plants are presented that co-combust medical wastes (average of 1.8% of the total feedstock) and wastewater plant residue (average of 2% of the feedstock).
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Ramaiah, B. J., G. V. Ramana, Edward Kavazanjian, and B. K. Bansal. "Dynamic Properties of Municipal Solid Waste from a Dump Site in Delhi, India." In Geo-Chicago 2016. Reston, VA: American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/9780784480144.013.

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Nawagamuwa, Udeni P., and R. W. U. Nuwansiri. "Compaction Characteristics of Municipal Solid Waste at Open Dump Sites in Sri Lanka." In Geo-Shanghai 2014. Reston, VA: American Society of Civil Engineers, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/9780784413432.012.

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Ramaiah, B. J., G. V. Ramana, and B. K. Bansal. "Site-Specific Seismic Response Analyses of a Municipal Solid Waste Dump Site at Delhi, India." In Fourth Geo-China International Conference. Reston, VA: American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/9780784480007.023.

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