Worldwide legislation requires the presence of air filtration systems with detectors to monitor and control the release of radionuclides into the air in nuclear medicine centers. Dealing with radionuclides includes trapping the vapors and storing it for decay. However, these methods can involve...

Die Entsorgungswirtschaft wird mehr als viele andere Branchen von staatlichen Regulierungsmaßnahmen geprägt. Um einem drohenden Entsorgungsnotstand entgegenzuwirken, entschloß sich die Bundesregierung Anfang der neunziger Jahre zu einer Neuordnung der Abfallwirtschaft. Mit der Einführung von...

The collection of solid waste and the recovery of recyclable material from waste belong to the many challenges Cuba has been facing over the past years. In this paper, we give a short account of the actual waste situation and analyze the causes of the obvious deficiencies of the waste sector. We...

Environmentally extended input–output analysis (EEIOA) can be applied to assess the economic and environmental implications of a transition towards a circular economy. In spite of the existence of several such applications, a systematic assessment of the opportunities and limitations of EEIOA...

Discussions on the effectiveness of different approaches to waste management are often disputed. On the one hand, there are those that claim that environmental protection regulations are beneficial to the economy and encourage technological innovation, more efficient processing and the use of...

This study analyses the environmental and financial sustainability of solid waste management in Indian cities. It presents an assessment of the rapidly rising volume of municipal solid waste, its changing composition, the continuing practice of mixing biodegradable (wet) waste with dry waste at...

Aufgrund der einheitlichen Europäischen Akte erhielt die Europäische Gemeinschaft den Auftrag und die Kompetenz, einen ökologischen qualifizierten Binnenmarkt zu schaffen. Problematisch ist, ob und in welchem Umfang dazu auch die Schaffung eines gemeinsamen europäischen Abfallmarktes...

The Department of Sanitation in New York City is a mayoral agency with a key role in municipal government, but it also has the attributes of a powerful corporation. With an annual budget in excess of a billion dollars, it hires, monitors, and replaces private vendors and contractors for a host...

Purpose: Disposal of infectious waste remains one of the most serious problems in the social and environmental domains of almost every nation. Selection of new suitable locations and finding the optimal set of transport routes to transport infectious waste, namely location routing problem for...

The potential of light guidance panels (LGPs) in the field of recycling technology has not explored to meet its full efficiency in the recovering of polymeric component from it. As consequences such components are either incinerated or used for land filling purposes. Therefore, this work aims to...

Improvement of medical quality has become a trend in hospital development. In recent years, environmental protection has become a rising issue in Taiwan, and people have begun to discuss the biomedical waste that comes from hospitals. According to an estimate in "To Err is Human," published by...

Based on a life-cycle sustainability assessment and the calculation of carbon abatement costs, we quantify the greenhouse-gas emission reductions and costs if green waste in the metropolitan region of Berlin, Germany, is diverted from composting into the production of hydrothermally carbonized...

he selection of a suitable location for infectious waste disposal is one of the major problems in waste management. Determining the location of infectious waste disposal centers is a difficult and complex process because it requires combining social and environmental factors that are hard to...

It is currently emphasised at European level that an essential way to deliver the resource efficiency agenda established under the Europe 2020 Strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth is through moving towards a more circular economy (CE). European Union (EU) documents indicate that...