A baseline study characterizing the municipal solid waste in the State of Kuwait

Al-Jarallah, Rawa; Aleisa, Esra

doi:10.1016/j.wasman.2014.02.015

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“…Although many similar studies have been conducted around in Pakistan and around the globe [16,19,36,[38][39][40][41], none have been conducted in Islamabad. The findings of this study can be used as Contemporary waste management literature/research and best practices suggest that shifting to a more environmentally friendly and sustainable waste management option requires an optimal combination of various management options such as recycling, composting, gasification, pyrolysis and incineration with energy recovery, instead of single waste management method [11][12][13][14][15].…”

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“…Although many similar studies have been conducted around in Pakistan and around the globe [16,19,36,[38][39][40][41], none have been conducted in Islamabad. The findings of this study can be used as baseline for developing an ideal waste management plan in Islamabad using LCA as well as evaluating the environmental burdens of the current SWM practice.…”

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Influence of Income Level and Seasons on Quantity and Composition of Municipal Solid Waste: A Case Study of the Capital City of Pakistan

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Abstract:The current study aims to analyze and compare the quantity and composition of municipal solid waste (MSW) at three socio-economic levels of population during all four seasons of the year (spring, summer, monsoon and winter). In this study, 2164.75 kg of MSW was evaluated, from 1260 samples collected from 45 households. The average waste generation was estimated to be 0.6 kg per capita per day. Waste generation rate for high, middle and low income groups was 0.890, 0.612 and 0.346 kg per capita per day, respectively. Nevertheless, season specific analysis indicated waste generation rates of 0.78, 0.58, 0.48 and 0.75 kg per capita per day in spring, summer, monsoon and winter, respectively. A two way ANOVA statistical analysis further illustrated a significant effect (p = 0.00) of economic level and seasons on the amount and composition of waste generated by the community. Moreover, the collected waste was segregated into 42 categories, where the highest was the organic fraction (57%), then diapers (12%), followed by plastic (8%), cardboard (3%) and paper (2%). The amounts of textile, diapers and plastics were highest in the lowest income group, while tetra packs, metal, paper and yard waste were maximum in the high income group. It is concluded that the high income group generated the highest amount of waste and waste generation rate is higher in the seasons of spring and winter compared to the other two seasons.

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confidence: 99%

“…Although many similar studies have been conducted around in Pakistan and around the globe [16,19,36,[38][39][40][41], none have been conducted in Islamabad. The findings of this study can be used as baseline for developing an ideal waste management plan in Islamabad using LCA as well as evaluating the environmental burdens of the current SWM practice.…”

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Influence of Income Level and Seasons on Quantity and Composition of Municipal Solid Waste: A Case Study of the Capital City of Pakistan

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“…These sites contain heterogeneous waste materials with a lack of information about their composition, volume and the physico-chemical properties [8,9]. The first step in the wastes characterization is a test excavation in the landfill site in order to assess the composition and the physicochemical properties [10]. The composition and characterization data is important for the planning and development of the waste management systems and the improvement of the resource recovery technologies.…”

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“…Jain et al [10] characterized 78 samples from Alachua County southwest landfill, Florida, USA were characterized to find the metal content and the properties of the waste materials. The excavated wastes were screened to 50, 12.5, 6.3 and 0.425 mm followed by hand sorting of the fractions 50, 12.5 and 6.3 mm to six different categories.…”

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“…Different parameters play vital role in the appraisement of the waste materials inside each landfill like the geographical place of the landfill, the composition of the buried materials, the age of the landfill, the climatic conditions and the standard of living. The same parameters are important to decide which method will be used to recycle or recover these wastes as waste to energy or waste to material [3,8,10].…”

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Composition of Waste at an Early EU-Landfill of Torma in Estonia

Jani

Kriipsalu

Pehme

et al. 2017

IJEE

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A B S T R A C TLandfills represent a continuous environmental threat due to the emission of different greenhouse gases, which are mainly responsible for the climate changes, and the contaminated leachate that affects the surface and ground water recipients. The circular economy approach appeared as a useful solution to reduce the depletion of the Earth's natural resources and the environmental risk effects by considering all of the lost resources like wastes including the landfills as potential secondary resources. It is well known that characterizing the composition of landfill waste is an essential step in specifying the recycling methods. In the current research the waste composition at one of the first EU regulationscompliant sanitary landfills (the Torma landfill in Estonia) was studied. The results showed that the fine fraction (<20 mm) represented 53% of the total excavated waste materials while the waste to energy fraction (plastics, woods etc.) was the highest within the coarse fraction (>20 mm). The present work emphasized that mining landfills can be a good solution either for extracting primary raw materials like metals, as a source for recovering energy, or for acquiring landfill space.

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