The pursuit of shifting Slovakia towards a circular economy is met with a multitude of obstacles, including the pervasive consumerist mindset among Slovakians. This mindset favors packaged food, leading to its improper disposal in municipal waste instead of being recycled. Furthermore, the...

This paper summarizes the economics perspective on recycling of municipal solid waste. The first section reviews recent data on recycling rates in the United States and across all OECD countries. The OECD data suggest the average aggregate recycling rate across member countries appears to have...

Human health and ecological security are vulnerable to groundwater pollution at landfill sites. It is essential to monitor groundwater quality downstream of landfills, but evaluating the pollution plumes within a multi-component contaminated aquifer remains a challenge. In order to track the...

In the present study, the technical feasibility of an electrocoagulation-constructed wetland continuous flow treatment system for the removal of organic matter, such as chemical oxygen demand (COD), from landfill leachate was evaluated. The response surface methodology (MSR) was applied to...

Soil-bentonite cut-off walls are widely used in landfill projects. In recent years, attapulgite has been suggested as a substitute for bentonite in cut-off wall applications by scholars due to its distinct advantages over bentonite. However, the biochemical degradation of waste in landfills...

The European Union has set itself the goal of reducing food waste by half. Many EU countries have already met this resolution, including the Czech Republic. However, there is still room for improvement. Based on a study with 1,551 respondents, the key factors influencing household food waste...

A high-performance anode containing PANI-α-PbO2 intermediate layer and PDMS-Ce-β-PbO2 outlayer was prepared by two-step electrodeposition. SEM and XRD characterization exhibited that the Ti/PANI/PDMS-Ce-PbO2 electrode has a denser surface morphology and a smaller crystal size, which also means...

Waste management issues have been hounding both urban and rural communities for decades. The passing of Republic Act 9003, or the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000, was meant to ensure the protection of public health and environment while encouraging resource conservation and...

Mexico, similarly to other developing countries, has planned landfilling as the central technology to manage municipal solid waste (MSW). In this research, the current and future situation of final disposal of MSW in Mexico was studied, focusing on the spatial and temporal evaluation of final...

The developing world has become the primary destination for used electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) exported by the developed world, making e-waste management critical. This paper aims to determine the state of e-waste management in Sub-Saharan Africa by critically reviewing the corpus on...

Municipal solid waste (MSW) management contributes substantially to climate change. The greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions from waste collection and landfill activities have a significant contribution. The carbon footprint is an important environmental indicator to express GHG emissions. Nowadays...

Virgin polymers based on petrochemical feedstock are mainly preferred by most plastic goods manufacturers instead of recycled plastic feedstock. Major reason for this is the lack of reliable information about the quality, suitability, and availability of recycled plastics, which is partly due to...

This paper provides an overview of global solid waste generation, its environmental costs, and fiscal instruments that can be used to encourage waste reduction and finance proper disposal. Countries-especially island nations--struggle to manage an ever-increasing volume of solid waste,...

Unlike many other places around the globe, Hong Kong is a small city with a high population density. Some housing units are built near the sources of an externality, such as a landfill site. As the blocks of buildings are particularly tall, many are walled buildings that block the bad odor from...

The presence of Superfund sites can have substantial impacts on surrounding property values. A shortcoming of studies utilizing the traditional hedonic price model is that they fail to account for the presence of spatial dependence or autocorrelation in residential housing. Jefferson County,...

This Study to assess the implementation by EU Member States of certain provisions of Directive 1999/31/EC on the landfill of waste, carried out for the European Commission's Directorate-General for Environment (DG Environment), investigates the situation in the 28 Member States of the European...

The paper presents a novel method of rational management of solid waste, namely an example of a modern landfill with enhanced leachate recirculation – a bioreactor landfill. The aim of the paper was to compare modern solutions concerning waste storage with traditional methods in terms of...

This paper presents the results of a study into the application of landfill biogas by applying an example of a biogas power plant situated on-site at the municipal landfill in Opole (MSO). The objective of the study was to analyze the operation of a biogas power plant. During the study, the...

This paper discusses the role of sustainable landfilling of municipal waste in the current systems of municipal waste management systems as the manner of final disposal of wastes. The actual data considering share of landfilling as final waste disposal in various countries all over the world...

Landfilling is the main method for municipal waste disposal in Romania. Access to sanitation services are limited on rural territory and that leads to uncontrolled waste disposal with negative implications on the geosystem. Implementation of EU acquis on waste disposal from rural areas requires...

Landfilling prevails in waste management options in Romania like others new EU members, being contrary to the concept of waste hierarchy promoted in recent years by EC. Waste disposal is done usually in non-compliant landfills and Government established a program to close these sites. This paper...

Current research into the pattern of energy usage in South Africa reveals an extraordinarily heavy reliance on coal-fired electricity, a strategy that is not only unsustainable but which has resulted in serious air pollution problems. The paper argues that this development ought to be seen in...

We are the first to examine the effect of Superfund cleanups on infant health rather than focusing on proximity to a site. We study singleton births to mothers residing within 5km of a Superfund site between 1989 and 2003 in five large states. Our “difference in differences” approach...

Methane is the second most prevalent greenhouse gas and has a global warming potential at least 28 times as high as carbon dioxide. Municipal solid waste landfills are reported to be the third-largest source of anthropogenic methane emissions in the United States, responsible for 18 percent of...

Methane (CH4) is the second most prevalent greenhouse gas and has a global warming potential at least 28 times as high as Carbon Dioxide (CO2). In the United States, Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) landfills are reported to be the third-largest source of human-made methane emissions, responsible for...