The distribution, behavior, and release of macro-and micro-size plastic wastes in solid waste disposal sites

X Fei, H He, X Pi, X Lu, Q Chen, J Ma… - Critical Reviews in …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Sanitary landfills and uncontrolled dumpsites are plastic wastes (PWs) reservoirs
containing∼ 60% of all the plastics ever made, amounting to 5,000× 106 tons as of 2017 …

A mini-review on household solid waste management systems in low-income developing countries: A case study of urban Harare City, Zimbabwe

PR Kwenda, G Lagerwall, S Eker… - Waste Management & …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Among other African cities, in terms of solid waste management (SWM), Harare has been
ranked as one of the poorest. The municipality struggles to efficiently provide SWM services …

Curbing global solid waste emissions toward net-zero warming futures

ZX Hoy, KS Woon, WC Chin, Y Van Fan, SJ Yoo - Science, 2023 - science.org
No global analysis has considered the warming that could be averted through improved
solid waste management and how much that could contribute to meeting the Paris …

Identifying and ranking landfill sites for municipal solid waste management: An integrated remote sensing and GIS approach

B Aslam, A Maqsoom, MD Tahir, F Ullah, MSU Rehman… - Buildings, 2022 - mdpi.com
Disposal of municipal solid waste (MSW) is one of the significant global issues that is more
evident in developing nations. One of the key methods for disposing of the MSW is locating …

Implications of municipal solid waste management on greenhouse gas emissions in Malaysia and the way forward

PSM Devadoss, P Agamuthu, SB Mehran, C Santha… - Waste Management, 2021 - Elsevier
The management of municipal solid waste (MSW) in Malaysia has been mainly focused on
collection, transportation and disposal of MSW. To examine the contribution of MSW …

A method to identify barriers to and enablers of implementing climate change mitigation options

L Steg, J Veldstra, K de Kleijne, Ş Kılkış, AFP Lucena… - One Earth, 2022 - cell.com
Mitigation option are not yet being implemented at the scale required to limit global warming
to well below 2° C. Various factors have been identified that inhibit the implementation of …

Circular economy transition: Exploiting innovative eco-design capabilities and customer involvement

KL Soh, WP Wong - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2021 - Elsevier
This empirical socio-technical based study determines the role of customer involvement,
design capabilities and sustainable competitive advantage/competitive advantage in the …

Ecological effects of distinct patents on reducing waste-related greenhouse gas emissions in BRIC countries: evidence from novel quantile methods

UK Pata, MT Kartal, S Erdogan - International Journal of …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Technological development and environmental patents have become one of the policy
options to solve the problem of global warming. With the development of technology, waste …

[HTML][HTML] How do waste climate policies contribute to sustainable development? A case study of North Macedonia

E Gusheva, V Gjorgievski, TO Grncarovska… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2022 - Elsevier
The impact of waste policies and measures from National Determined Contributions (NDCs)
on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is unexamined and creates conditions for …

A data driven technique applying GIS, and remote sensing to rank locations for waste disposal site expansion

A Richter, KTW Ng, N Karimi - Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 2019 - Elsevier
Landfilling is the most common method for final treatment of municipal solid waste
worldwide. Canadians generated 973 kg/cap of waste in 2016, and 73% of that was sent to …