Background: Plastics have conveyed great benefits to humanity and made possible some of
the most significant advances of modern civilization in fields as diverse as medicine …

With the increasing demand for cheap energy sources, Waste-to-Energy (WtE) strategies are
gaining importance across the world. In India, such strategies have a two-way benefit ie …

Energy recovery is a viable option for waste management to integrate prevention, reuse and
recycling when those strategies are not feasible. As such, efficient management of energy …

China generates the world's second-largest amount of municipal solid waste (MSW) and
incinerates the largest quantity of MSW. However, data on the latest dioxin emissions from …

Despite a significant increase in United States biomass energy sector activity, including
domestic bioenergy deployment and wood pellet production for overseas exports, the …

Purpose The aim of this review is to evaluate previous life cycle assessment (LCA) studies of
first-and second-generation bioplastics, to understand the state of the art and the main …

The aim of this mini review is to outline the currently existing methods of energy recovery
from municipal solid waste (MSW), including incineration, pyrolysis, anaerobic digestion …

The toxicity of fibrous particles in ambient air can be higher than that of particles of other
shapes; a phenomenon referred to as the fiber paradigm. Microfibers (MFs) can be classified …

Biomass waste-to-energy (WtE) offers a critical solution to carbon neutrality through
improving the resource recycling and recovery. This study comprehensively assessed how …

There have been many problems generated by the COVID-19 pandemic. One of them is the
worrying increase in the generation of medical waste due to the great risk they represent for …