Things to do today in Bengaluru

Your kitchen waste is full of nutrients, so don’t chuck it a chuck it away in bins just yet. Link: https://bangaloremirror.indiatimes.com/bangalore/others/things-to-do-today-in-bengaluru/articleshow/70425140.cms

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La cooperativa que funciona en el CEAMSE y recicla 15 toneladas de residuos por día: “La basura recupera a muchos chicos de la droga”

La organización tiene más de 15 años. De ella participan 100 trabajadores que van todos los días a al predio de José León Suárez y aseguran ganar 12 mil pesos por mes. Se acaba de estrenar un documental que cuenta su historia Link: https://www.infobae.com/sociedad/2019/07/28/la-cooperativa-que-funciona-en-el-ceamse-y-recicla-15-toneladas-de-residuos-por-dia-la-basura-recupera-a-muchos-chicos-de-la-droga/

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What’s that hairy crab doing in your recycling? Shanghai residents struggle with new trash rules.

SHANGHAI — Luo Qi used to be part of the problem. He would zip around Shanghai on a motorbike delivering some of the 3.3 million containers of takeout food and drinks that people here order every day. Link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/whats-that-hairy-crab-doing-in-your-recycling-shanghai-residents-struggle-with-new-trash-rules/2019/07/26/7b39c49e-a863-11e9-ac16-90dd7e5716bc_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.7bc42b61de8e

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Hybrid model for the prediction of municipal solid waste generation in Hangzhou, China

In this study, a hybrid model was established to forecast MSW generation through the combination of the ridge regression and GM(1,N) models. The hybrid model is multivariate and involves total urban population, total retail sales of social consumer goods, per capita consumption expenditure of urban areas, tourism, and college graduation.

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The role of solid waste composting in mitigating climate change in Jordan

The assessment revealed that composting and anaerobic digestion of the total generated source-segregated bio-waste (Scenarios 3 and 4) have the least net greenhouse gas emissions with 1.1 million Mg CO2-eq y-1, while engineered sanitary landfilling and dumping have net emissions of 2.6 and 3.75 million Mg CO2-eq y-1, respectively. The findings of this research are paving the way …

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