Plastic waste trade has grown considerably in the last decades and has caused severe environmental problems in recipient countries. As the largest recipient, China has permanently banned the imports of plastic waste since 2018. This paper examines the causal effect of plastic waste imports on...

With the rapid increase of waste throughout the country, the government of Indonesia has enacted regulations targeting waste reduction using religious sentiment. This is employed in Malang City's "Waste Bank of Malang" (WBM). This study aims to analyze the impact of waste banks on socio-economic...

This article analyzes the risk factors influencing the achievement of solid waste sphere reforming goals in Russia. The given arguments present the current state of the reform as not very effective from an economic, environmental, and social perspective. The authors identify four groups of risk...

Municipal solid waste charging schemes can be powerful drivers for local policy efforts in reaching the goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015. This paper aims to provide empirical evidence on an economic lever to meet SDG 11,...

In this paper, we investigate the impact of China's policy in 2017 to ban waste imports on air pollution. We exploit the difference-in-differences strategy, which combines the time variation and the cross-prefecture variation in the waste import before the policy change. We find that prefectures...

Does waste disclosure really work? This study investigates the effect of waste disclosure on corporate governance. The results highlight a significant and positive relationship among board gender, independent board directors, sustainability committee, and verification of waste disclosure....

This study investigates the impacts of lifestyle on municipal solid waste (MSW). Although solid waste is increasingly recognized as a serious worldwide environmental concern, whether and how the lifestyle causally affects MSW are unclear. Based on a unique data of daily littering records of 252...

The short article suggests that waste, in its many forms, should be considered a resource and that the economy of waste, supported by digital technologies, could represent a significant opportunity for sustainable and circular growth. Wasting waste is increasingly an unethical and uneconomic choice

With the large-scale development of shale gas, oil-based drilling fluids are widely used, generating significant amounts of solid wastes from oil-based shale drilling cutting (OBSDC), which are difficult to degrade and biologically toxic. The current treatment methods do not meet the...

In this paper a set of mathematical tools are developed to predict mass and volumetric flows in waste treatment systems (WTS). The proposed approach is constructed upon a set of data reconciliation methods, influent fractionation routines and process simulations models (and model interfaces) to...

Fluoride and silica contamination in water is a worldwide issue due to the wastewater discharge from semiconductor industry. Coagulation-ultrafiltration (UF) process is commonly used to treat semiconductor wastewater, but requires excessive amounts of coagulant/flocculant. In this study, an...

The effect of coupling biochar addition and hydrothermal pretreatment in anaerobic mono-digestion and co-digestion of hydrothermally pretreated thickened waste activated sludge (PTWAS) with food waste (FW) was investigated in six semi-continuous lab-scale digesters at organic loading rates (OLR...

Since 2015, a year of the adoption of the Waste Management Code, Georgia has achieved significant progress towards an integrated solid waste management system. Regardless, there are several solid waste management challenges that the country struggles to overcome and is far from meeting the...

Angesichts einer begrenzten Deponiekapazität der Erde und einer zunehmenden Kritikalität von Ressourcen und Lieferketten gewinnt die Kreislaufführung der Stoffflüsse zentrale Bedeutung. Der Abfall wird zum Wertstoff. Kenntnisse über seine stoffliche Zusammensetzung werden zum zentralen...

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...

A problem with temporary tax study commissions is that by the time their findings are released, changes in the political environment may have rendered their suggestions worthless. Permanent standing commissions are needed. The temporary crisis of the current pandemic, an opportunity for tax...

This paper provides a broad overview of recent trends in solid waste and recycling, related public policy issues, and the economics literature devoted to these topics. Public attention to solid waste and recycling has increased dramatically over the past decade both in the United States and in...

This paper examines the generation and management of solid waste (MSW) through the lens of economics. We estimate that the global burden of MSW amounted to 1.3 billion metric tons in 1990, or 0.67 kilograms of waste per person per day. Industrial countries account for a disproportionate share of...

The United States has vast offshore wind resources—nearly double the total electricity consumption of the country—ideally located in close proximity to the largest population centers. This abundance has remained stubbornly untapped for over a decade, without a single commercial scale wind...

Permissionless blockchains require a protocol to generate consensus. Many prominent permissionless blockchains employ Proof-of-Work (PoW) for that purpose, but PoW possesses significant shortcomings. Various alternatives have been proposed. This paper provides the first formal economic model of...

Manufacturing waste forms part of industrial waste which is also rooted in solid waste. In Ghana, the ruling government has a flagship project known as one district one factory (1d1f). Most of these factories that are established and yet to be established are manufacturing industries. No doubt...

Lean thinking is a set of concepts, strategies, principles, values and tools used to create and deliver the most value from the customer perspective while consuming the fewest resources and fully utilizing the knowledge and skills of people performing the work. If you visit Toyota assembly...

Non-operational mines mostly constitute of significant quantities of valuable mineral resources within tailings and waste rock that can be disposed properly using innovative techniques. Proper waste disposal techniques do not only reduce the need for new mines to be developed but also have broad...

Lipase is one of the most used industrial enzymes, which can be produced by Aspergillus niger. Large scale production of Aspergillus niger lipase is more profitable by using solid state fermentation method and utilizing agro-industrial waste as the substrate. Optimization of Aspergillus niger...

The discussion on the management of urban solid waste gained global contours in the 70's, but its interest in some developing countries is relatively recent. Namely in Brazil, the legislation was only approved in 2010 (Law 12,305). Almost 10 years after the approval of this policy instrument, a...

Biogas systems from solid waste landfill and their pipeline network have been constructed with a total biogas capacity of 1000 m3/day in two villages in Bantan subdistrict in northern Thailand. Two hundred households in two villages receive the benefits from biogas technology in many ways. It...

Thermo-electric generators (TEGs) have been identified as promising solid-state devices to recover exhaust waste in internal combustion engines (ICEs). As the TEGs are able to convert heat directly into electricity, they can be used to down size the alternator of the ICEs. However, the addition...