In the frame of municipal solid waste management, one of the aspects to be taken into account for comparative analyses is the role of traffic for waste transportation. To this concern the waste pre-treatment could change the environmental and cost balances compared with the conventional scenario based on burning on …
Mais »MECHANICAL BIOLOGICAL TREATMENT AND SELECTIVE COLLECTION OF MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE: WHICH INTERACTIONS?
Bio-mechanical treatments are extensively used for municipal solid waste management. One of the problems that can be found in this sector can be related to the change of the MSW characteristics during the lifetime of the plant. This problem is only partially related to the dynamics of composition of the …
Mais »ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT OF MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE LANDFILLS: A CASE STUDY FROM JORDAN
Landfills have been and will remain the dominant alternative for the ultimate disposal of municipal solid waste. However, landfilling of solid waste was associated with certain adverse environmental impacts. This has created some sort of objection from the public and decision makers side for setting a new landfill. One tool …
Mais »LANDFILL GAS EXTRACTION SYSTEMS AND UTILISATION IN HUNGARY PUSZTAZAMOR LANDFILL SITE OF FKF ZRT. BUDAPEST
The Pusztazámor landfill is the largest Hungarian domestic waste landfill site which was built in 2000, employing state-of-the-art technology. The placement of domestic waste started in 2000 and will, in all probability, continue until 2005. In the first of three placement segments, a gas extraction system with a gas booster …
Mais »WOODLAWN BIOREACTOR – PROGRESS REPORT ON THE WORLD’S LARGEST BIOREACTOR PROJECT
The Woodlawn Bioreactor has now (April 2007) been in operation 2.5 years and has gone through a variety of operational issues which have generated management responses to ensure that the objectives of the facility, namely the orderly disposal of 480,000 t of waste per annum; the expected generation of energy …
Mais »WATER AND LEACHATE MANAGEMENT AT A SANITARY LANDFILL IN EXTREME TROPICAL CONDITIONS, KUCHING, SARAWAK, MALAYSIA
In the extreme tropical area of Kuching with an annual rainfall between 6,500 and 7,200 mm a leachate treatment plant is operated which has to keep Standard B of the Malaysian Environmental Quality Act 1974. The plant consists of biological, chemical and physical treatment steps. Since the plant´s capacity is …
Mais »BIO-MECHANICAL TREATMENT PLANTS AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT FROM INDUCED TRAFFIC
In the frame of municipal solid waste management, one of the aspects to be taken into account for comparative analyses is the role of traffic for waste transportation. To this concern the waste pre-treatment could change the environmental and cost balances compared with the conventional scenario based on burning on …
Mais »MECHANICAL BIOLOGICAL TREATMENT AND SELECTIVE COLLECTION OF MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE: WHICH INTERACTIONS?
Bio-mechanical treatments are extensively used for municipal solid waste management. One of the problems that can be found in this sector can be related to the change of the MSW characteristics during the lifetime of the plant. This problem is only partially related to the dynamics of composition of the …
Mais »ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT OF MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE LANDFILLS: A CASE STUDY FROM JORDAN
Landfills have been and will remain the dominant alternative for the ultimate disposal of municipal solid waste. However, landfilling of solid waste was associated with certain adverse environmental impacts. This has created some sort of objection from the public and decision makers side for setting a new landfill. One tool …
Mais »LANDFILL GAS EXTRACTION SYSTEMS AND UTILISATION IN HUNGARY PUSZTAZAMOR LANDFILL SITE OF FKF ZRT. BUDAPEST
The Pusztazámor landfill is the largest Hungarian domestic waste landfill site which was built in 2000, employing state-of-the-art technology. The placement of domestic waste started in 2000 and will, in all probability, continue until 2005. In the first of three placement segments, a gas extraction system with a gas booster …
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