Environmental sustainability impacts of solid waste management practices in the global South

IR Abubakar, KM Maniruzzaman, UL Dano… - International journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Solid waste management (SWM) is one of the key responsibilities of city administrators and
one of the effective proxies for good governance. Effective SWM mitigates adverse health …

Waste management through composting: Challenges and potentials

MS Ayilara, OS Olanrewaju, OO Babalola, O Odeyemi - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
Composting is the controlled conversion of degradable organic products and wastes into
stable products with the aid of microorganisms. Composting is a long-used technology …

Sustainable synthesis of metal-organic frameworks and their derived materials from organic and inorganic wastes

K Boukayouht, L Bazzi, S El Hankari - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Due to the increasing demand for the scale-up of metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) and the
implementation of their potential in more industrial applications, many challenges need to be …

Solid waste—sources, toxicity, and their consequences to human health

MH Dehghani, GA Omrani, RR Karri - Soft computing techniques in solid …, 2021 - Elsevier
Solid waste not only causes disease, stench, and ugliness of landscapes but also can cause
great damage by contaminating soil, water, and air and endangering the health of humans …

The relationship between municipal solid waste and greenhouse gas emissions: Evidence from Switzerland

C Magazzino, M Mele, N Schneider - Waste Management, 2020 - Elsevier
Municipal solid waste generation is becoming a prominent issue in the environmental arena.
The aim of this paper is to investigate the relationship among municipal waste generation …

Municipal solid waste (MSW): Strategies to improve salt affected soil sustainability: A review

MD Meena, RK Yadav, B Narjary, G Yadav, HS Jat… - Waste management, 2019 - Elsevier
Salt-induced soil degradation is a serious threat to global agriculture which is responsible
for diminished productivity of agro-ecosystems. Irrigation with poor quality water and …

Student's knowledge, attitude, and perception (KAP) to solid waste management: A survey towards a more circular economy from a rural-based tertiary institution in …

OM Owojori, R Mulaudzi, JN Edokpayi - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
Students of Higher Educational institutions (HEIs) are regarded as major stakeholders of an
institution and key agents of transformation in society. Thus, the environmental knowledge of …

Towards a sustainable future: Nexus between the sustainable development goals and waste management in the built environment

S Roy, R Rautela, S Kumar - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were introduced to the world in 2015
to provide a roadmap for development in domains, such as poverty reduction, health …

Solid wastes provide breeding sites, burrows, and food for biological disease vectors, and urban zoonotic reservoirs: a call to action for solutions-based research

A Krystosik, G Njoroge, L Odhiambo… - Frontiers in public …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Background: Infectious disease epidemiology and planetary health literature often cite solid
waste and plastic pollution as risk factors for vector-borne diseases and urban zoonoses; …

[HTML][HTML] Introducing a classification framework to urban waste policy: Analysis of sixteen zero-waste cities in China

W Ma, M de Jong, F Zisopoulos, T Hoppe - Waste Management, 2023 - Elsevier
Chinese cities are experiencing rapid urban development while facing severe challenges of
environmental pollution. China's central government has proposed several policies to …