This review on current US municipal solid waste-to-energy trends highlighted regional
contrasts on technology adoption, unique challenges of each technology, commonly used …

The continuously increasing solid waste generation worldwide calls for management
strategies that integrate concerns for environmental sustainability. By quantifying …

Electricity and heat generation are key contributors to global emissions of greenhouse
gases (GHG). In this paper, specific attention is paid to renewable energy technologies …

In the past few decades, solid waste management systems in Europe have involved
complex and multi-faceted trade-offs among a plethora of technological alternatives …

This study evaluates the environmental performance and discounted costs of the
incineration and landfilling of municipal solid waste that is ready for the final disposal while …

Material and energy recovery from waste is significantly growing its importance in the last
decades aiming to reduce the primary resources exploitation and the excessive recourse to …

The accelerated movement of people towards cities led to the fact that the world's urban
population is now growing by 60-million persons per year. The increased number of cities' …

One common life cycle assessment (LCA) focus is to understand whether landfill or
municipal solid waste incineration (MSWI) treatment is more environmentally favorable. Past …

Abstract Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) is an unavoidable by-product of modern societies
production and consumption patterns. Envisaging waste management strategies is a …

In waste management systems, several parameters such as the rate of waste production,
disposal facility, treatment cost, and their relations may be uncertain and can influence the …