MSW Management in Universities: Sharing Best Practices

Rada, Elena Cristina; Magaril, Elena; Schiavon, Marco; Karaeva, Anzhelika; Chashchin, Maxim; Torretta, Vincenzo

doi:10.3390/su12125084

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“…The region of Sverdlovskaya Oblast has been recently analysed from the perspective of CE strategies. Although the recovery of materials from MSW was lower than 15% before 2017 [48], this region is considering CE, and involves the contribution of the university sector [49].…”

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Evaluating Global Municipal Solid Waste Management Efficiency From a Circular Economy Point of View

Rada

Tolkou

Katsoyiannis

et al. 2021

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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The Circular Economy (CE) principles recently set out by the European Union (EU) include additional guidelines for municipal solid waste (MSW) management. More detailed information about material streams must be generated and managed so that the entire system can be monitored from a new perspective. Suitable indicators (and indices from them) must be made readily available, so that they can be used to assess the efficiency that the European Union expects from the sector. This article presents a preliminary critical analysis of the literature and identifies that indicators and indices should be considered to facilitate the evaluation of MSW management under a CE vision. The analysis is combined with a discussion of the situation in various countries, to provide an overview of attempts to implement CE strategies worldwide. Special waste is not dealt with in this article as EU updated the vision of waste management starting from the MSW sector, on which this work is focused.

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confidence: 98%

Evaluating Global Municipal Solid Waste Management Efficiency From a Circular Economy Point of View

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Tolkou

Katsoyiannis

et al. 2021

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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“…However, the first essential step is a census of the sanitary appliances of the university, which may be the primary cause of excessive water consumption. In analogy with UniTrento, Uninsubria is facing the problem of residual waste [18], caused primarily by the presence of a few undefined waste bins located in the university buildings and by the uncontrolled external areas that host waste dumpsters. The Plan proposes actions for the removal of undefined waste bins, protocols for the surveillance of external areas and initiatives to raise the users' awareness on responsible consumption and proper waste disposal through dedicated communication campaigns.…”

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“…A few years later, the program "Green universities of Russia" has evolved and got the government support. The main goal of the program is greening of Russian universities by introducing a separate waste collection system, energy saving technologies, and conducting educational activities in the field of ecology and environmental protection for students and University employees [18], [28]. UrFU is currently the participant of this program.…”

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Planning Sustainability in Higher Education: Three Case Studies

Schiavon

Ragazzi

Magaril

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WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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Sustainable development is a key principle of national and international policies, which has been strongly promoted by the European Union since 2015. Communication, education, the awareness of the importance of accelerating the transition from a linear economy to a circular one and of raising environmental awareness play a key role in the achievement of sustainable development goals (SDGs). To achieve the goals on a large scale, it is necessary to start from a local scale. In this sense, universities must experiment best practices and make them available to the society. In the last years, many universities have adopted environmental sustainability plans in order to implement green policies and develop a roadmap towards the achievement of the SDGs, while sharing best practices with university communities and society. This paper presents the case of two Italian universities and a Russian one. Specifically, the paper presents the contents of the current environmental sustainability plans of the Italian universities, discussing the reasons for the choice of the environmental sustainability goals and the expected results following the implementation of the related actions. A comparison between the approaches adopted in the sustainability plans of the two Italian universities will be presented in details. In addition, the paper analyses the potential implementation of a sustainability plan in the Russian university. The paper will discuss also potential criticalities in the achievement of the goals.

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“…The research paper from Rada E.C., et al [16] considers the advantages and disadvantages of universities in terms of waste management. Specifically, setting up communication campaigns, standard procedures, monitoring actions, pricing strategies that incentivize selective collection and improving the collaboration within the university community are identified as crucial initiatives.…”

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Environmental Waste Management of Disposable Surgical Coverage

Majerník¹,

Daneshjo²,

Malega³

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Pol. J. Environ. Stud.

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The sustainable direction in the field of patient and medical staff health safety is the use of disposable medical devices, including disposable surgical masks, as recommended by the actual European standard. Disposable surgical coverage is the result of cooperation between medical professional workplaces worldwide and professionals in the area of nonwovens and lamination of material. Various variants were developed, tested and then rejected and then finally reach the material and variant composition. The use of disposable medical devices in healthcare is now a common practice, but also an environmental problem on a global scale. Despite the widespread adoption of this best practice, many healthcare facilities and patients still register resistance and scepticism against this form, actually also in connection with protection against COVID-19. The promoted opinion also by research-confirmed opinion is that the disposable form significantly reduces the amount of regulated medical waste that is generated during surgical procedures, subsequent sterilization and in the framework of protection against COVID-19. At the same time, logistical modeling of the best practice of environmental management in waste management remains a problem for the future.

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MSW Management in Universities: Sharing Best Practices

Cited by 15 publications

References 18 publications

Evaluating Global Municipal Solid Waste Management Efficiency From a Circular Economy Point of View

Evaluating Global Municipal Solid Waste Management Efficiency From a Circular Economy Point of View

Planning Sustainability in Higher Education: Three Case Studies

Environmental Waste Management of Disposable Surgical Coverage

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