Sustainable Solid Waste Collection and Management

Abstract

Waste collection is one of the most relevant parts of the integrated solid waste management system in technical, economic, environmental, and social terms. However, the vital role of waste collection has not been recognized, and the support given by the quadruple helixacademics, industry, state, and citizensis reduced when looking for the other operational units of an integrated solid waste management system. To exemplify the missing interest of academia for waste collection, in a Google Scholar search, the results for "waste collection" are about 157,000, for incineration are 375,000, and for landfill are 639,000. This example shows that collection is seen only as the way to make waste to get into high-tech infrastructures, like incineration plants, where real science is applied. The practitioners of the waste collection are the range of workers with lower income backgrounds, making waste collection not attractive enough to be devoted to high-tech solutions for waste collection problems. Many times, waste managers working in waste collection systems are more focused on the trucks and containers and the costs involved in the collection process, which is a considerable amount of local authorities' budget.In a meeting in 2014 between academia and waste collection sectors at the Nova University of Lisbon, waste collection professionals expressed the need for technical skills and knowledge based on waste collection and management practice, in a bottom-up approach. Technical skill areas include cost-efficiency, recycling behavior, environmental impacts, and technical operation. Waste collection professionals all over the world have the same necessities when implementing and managing a waste collection system to know more about the subject, but in such a way that knowledge could be affordable in technical and economic terms.The waste collection professionals' call to fulfill the technical background needs required experts in several fields of waste collection and management. This book results from the collaboration from different science areas and experiences in waste collection and management. Dr. Ana Pires, from whom the original idea was formed, has a scientific role in analyzing solid waste management from a system analysis perspective, where the application of life cycle assessment and multi-criteria decision-making are the techniques applied by her to make waste collection and

The Development of Efficient Contaminated Polymer Materials Shredding in Recycling Processes

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Physio-chemical characterization of municipal solid waste and its management in high-altitude urban areas of North-Western Himalayas

“…The open or crude dumping of MSW can have a high impact on the mountain ecosystem due to the production of greenhouse gases (GHG's) emissions during the decomposition of biodegradable waste. Moreover, emissions from vehicles during the collection and transportation of waste to disposal sites can impact the ecosystem [25]. A study conducted in Mumbai, India, showed that the open burning of solid waste emits 10,000 g of dioxin and furans, and these are carcinogenic in nature, which can cause cancer [2].…”

Determination of the Odour Adsorption Behaviour of Wool

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