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Incineration

Incineration: health and environmental consequences. Gochfeld M UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, USA. Incineration is considered one of the four primary ways to manage solid wastes, in conjunction with source reduction and reuse, recycling-composting, and landfilling. Incineration is currently used to destroy household and institutional solid waste, hazardous chemical …

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Landfill

People on the garbage dumps of Cairo: a toxicological in vivo model? Marth E, Sixl W, Bencko V, Medwed M, Lapajne S, Voncina E, Brumen S Institute of Hygiene of the Karl-Franzens University of Graz, Austria. In the outskirts of Cairo, some 40,000 people live on garbage dumps. These people …

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