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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Integrated waste management"”.
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Waste farm: a productive landscape for integrated waste management
… This calls for the city to re-imagine its waste management infrastructure. Meanwhile, within the urban areas of Cape Town, there exists a network and constellations of informal waste pickers working in conjunction with buy-back centres and recyclers to form an economically, environmentally …
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The strategic assessment of a curbside recycling initiative in Cape Town as a tool for integrated waste management
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 158-165).
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A critical reflection on the evolution of the South African National Waste Management Strategy
In redressing global and local waste management challenges, many countries developed and implemented integrated waste management systems through policies, laws and strategies. The aim of this study is to evaluate the evolution of the South African National Waste Management Strategy (NWMS) from its …
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Harvesting the plastic we have sowed : costs and challenges in, and a novel application of blockchain for implementing extended producer responsibility in Chile
… are disproportionately large producers of solid waste in an increasingly landfilled world with plastic-choked oceans. Managing waste sustainably remains a challenge, and an expensive one, often comprising 20%-50% of municipal budgets. In the last 25 years, Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) …
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Evaluation of the Economic, Social, and Biological Feasibility of Bioconverting Food Wastes with the Black Soldier Fly (Hermetia illucens)
Food waste in the waste stream is becoming an important aspect of integrated waste management systems. Current efforts are composting and animal feeding. However, these food waste disposal practices rely on slow thermodynamic processes of composting or finding farmers with domestic animals capable …
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Towards Sustainable Plastic Waste Management in Tuvalu
Plastic waste poses an escalating challenge for Tuvalu, a small island developing state with limited landmass, fragile ecosystems, and virtually limited domestic plastic recycling infrastructure. In Funafuti, the capital, plastic waste particularly single-use packaging and disposable nappies …
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Towards Sustainable Plastic Waste Management in Tuvalu
Plastic waste poses an escalating challenge for Tuvalu, a small island developing state with limited landmass, fragile ecosystems, and virtually limited domestic plastic recycling infrastructure. In Funafuti, the capital, plastic waste particularly single-use packaging and disposable nappies …
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Aplicação de uma ferramenta de análise de ciclo de vida no planeamento da gestão integrada de resíduos urbanos : estudo de caso da Lipor
… dois softwares: LCA-IWM - Life Cycle Assessment Integrated Waste Management e o WAMPS - Waste Management Planning System. Através do software LCA-IWM, desenvolveu-se uma previsão para a produção de resíduos para o ano de 2020. Os resultados obtidos em ambos os softwares foram analisados e …
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The use of construction and demolition waste in concrete in Cape Town
… the use of RAs, a construction and demolition waste (C&DW) recycling culture has to be developed. Analysis of municipal waste data over the past 10 years shows that the commercial aggregate industry and market has not grown. A major contributor to the excess C&DW in the City, is the discarded …
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Survival and growth of fish in water reclaimed from cattle feedlots
… This concern has brought about an interest in integrated systems, which reuse water and produce marketable products in the process. With this in mind, several departments from Texas Tech University have collaborated to construct an integrated system to treat the effluent from a 1000-head cattle …
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An evaluation of strategic management of landfill sites: A case study of Thohoyandou Block J. landfill site, Vhembe District Municipality, Limpopo Province
… of this study was to evaluate the strategic management of the Thohoyandou Block J landfill site. There are limited documented materials on strategic management of landfill sites in South Africa. As a result, this study sought to close this gap and expose new insights that it deemed to be of …
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Feasibility of Reuse in the Concrete Industry
The construction and demolition (C&D) waste produced by the Canadian construction industry accounts for 27% of the total municipal solid waste disposed in landfills. However, more than 75% of C&D waste has residual value and, consequently, could be salvaged, recycled, and/or reused. The need for …
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Investigation of Reactions Occurring in Municipal Solid Waste Residues
… more than 290 million tons of municipal solid waste (MSW) is generated in the U.S. Understanding the reactions occurring in waste during disposal, transport, and storage is important to move towards an integrated waste management strategy. Recently some landfills in the U.S. have been reported …
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A study of waste management policy implications for landfill waste salvagers in the Western Cape
… was to explore the factors that led to the Solid Waste Management Department's resolution to prohibit landfill salvaging in the Cape Metropolitan Municipality and the intended and unintended consequences such a decision subsequently had for the landfill waste salvagers. Large numbers of poor, …
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Sensibilização e educação ambiental na escola em várias temáticas ambientais
O principal objetivo deste trabalho consiste na elaboração e aplicação de um projeto de sensibilização e educação ambiental desenvolvido em três temáticas ambientais; gestão da água, gestão de resíduos e conservação da natureza, onde se aplicou a parte prática do projeto na Escola das Irmãs …