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Showing 1 to 20 of 540 for “"Waste Management"”.
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Landfill containment and waste management systems
… the framework of the modem Integrated Solid Waste Management (ISWM) hierarchy.<br/><br/>The aims of the research are presented in the context of a literature search and postal questionnaire survey to identify trends in United Kingdom landfill containment concepts. These are compared and …
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Economic Aspects of Radioactive Waste Management
The prevailing low-level radioactive waste disposal facility siting paradigm has achieved very limited success, despite expensive cooperative efforts undertaken across a number of states. I begin this dissertation by exploring possible weaknesses in the paradigm's economic foundation, both with …
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Effective waste management by enhancing reusable packaging
… required to reduce environmental impact from waste packaging and to increase knowledge on the best way to enhance reusable packaging. Through a review of the extant literature, a conceptual framework was designed of the most important dimensions to enhance reusable packaging amongst society …
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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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New approaches to municipal solid waste management
… Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1989.
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Solid waste management : decision and market dilemmas
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil Engineering, 1992.
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Solid waste management in informal settlements of Windhoek
The study examines examines the management of solid waste in the three informal settlements of Windhoek, which are Babylon, Okahandja Park and Okuryangava. Before independence, the apartheid government forbade natural urban expansion in "black" suburbs. This resulted in grossly overcrowded …
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Investigating waste management programs in school foodservice operations
This study investigated demographic food waste management practices, recycling of packaging waste, and attitudes and barriers concerning waste management activities in school nutrition programs. Research methods included a pilot study and a national survey of a random sample of 599 child nutrition …
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Assessment of Solid Waste Management in Kinondoni Municipality
This study aimed to assess the Solid waste Management in Kinondoni Municipality in the year 2014. The sample comprised a total number of 50 households in which two wards of Sinza and Ubungo were purposively chosen to represent the rest of wards in Kinondono Municipality. Data on solid waste …
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Practices of Waste Management in Iowa Public Schools
1 PDF file (71 leaves)
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Nuclear Waste Management and Environmental Justice in Taiwan.
… environmental justice in the context of nuclear waste controversies on Orchid Island in Taiwan through the analysis of the differences between the Yami tribe and the Taiwanese migrants in their attitudes toward risks of the local nuclear waste repository and their understanding of the conception …
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Enhancing trust in US nuclear waste management institutions
… of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste material at nuclear power plants and former weapons manufacturing facilities. This situation poses a growing long-term public safety hazard, and it hampers the possibility of a revival of commercial nuclear power generation for electricity …
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Urban municipal solid waste management in Costa Rica
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1998.
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Environmental justice and its borders : Croatian nuclear waste management
Through the example of nuclear waste management and related policies in Croatia, the thesis examines the elements of environmental justice: its importance and relevance for nuclear waste management, and the principles that can provide sustainability to the case of this study. This is achieved by …
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RESTAURANT FOOD WASTE MANAGEMENT USING MICROWAVE PLASMA GASIFICATION TECHNOLOGY
… on-site solution for the treatment of restaurant waste using a microwave generated plasma for pyrolysis and gasification. The developed system has been used to treat waste from a city centre fast food restaurant. The system was designed with the aim of reducing the amount of waste being sent to …
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