Solid Waste

Known as: Solid Wastes, Waste, Solid, Wastes, Solid 
Garbage, refuse, or sludge, or other discarded materials from a wastewater treatment plant, water supply treatment plant, and air pollution control… (More)
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Highly Cited
2009
Highly Cited
2009
MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE CHARACTERISTICS AND MANAGEMENT IN NIGERIA
Municipal solid waste management has emerged as one of the greatest challenges facing environmental protection agencies in… (More)
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Highly Cited
2009
Highly Cited
2009
Sustainable recycling of municipal solid waste in developing countries.
This research focuses on recycling in developing countries as one form of sustainable municipal solid waste management (MSWM… (More)
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Highly Cited
2007
Highly Cited
2007
Solid wastes generation in India and their recycling potential in building materials
Presently in India, about 960 million tonnes of solid waste is being generated annually as by-products during industrial, mining… (More)
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Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
A GIS based transportation model for solid waste disposal--a case study on Asansol municipality.
Uncontrolled growth of the urban population in developing countries in recent years has made solid waste management an important… (More)
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Highly Cited
2005
Highly Cited
2005
Forecasting municipal solid waste generation in a fast-growing urban region with system dynamics modeling.
Both planning and design of municipal solid waste management systems require accurate prediction of solid waste generation. Yet… (More)
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Highly Cited
2005
Highly Cited
2005
Municipal solid waste management from a systems perspective
Different waste treatment options for municipal solid waste have been studied in a systems analysis. Different combinations of… (More)
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Review
2003
Review
2003
Energy from gasification of solid wastes.
Gasification technology is by no means new: in the 1850s, most of the city of London was illuminated by "town gas" produced from… (More)
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Highly Cited
2003
Highly Cited
2003
Municipal solid waste management through vermicomposting employing exotic and local species of earthworms.
A comparative study was conducted between exotic and local (epigeic--Eisenia fetida and anaecic--Lempito mauritii, respectively… (More)
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Highly Cited
2003
Highly Cited
2003
The environmental performance of alternative solid waste management options: a life cycle assessment study
Developed from chemical engineering principles and energy analysis, the life cycle assessment is an internationally standardized… (More)
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Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
Soft-tissue sarcoma and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma clusters around a municipal solid waste incinerator with high dioxin emission levels.
Overall evidence from epidemiologic studies in the workplace suggests that dioxin is a human carcinogen, but whether low doses… (More)
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