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Disposal
Solid wasteSolid waste disposalDisposal varies for country to country and place to place. Worldwide around 37% of waste is disposed of in some type...
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Experimental investigation of biochemical and geotechnical properties of municipal solid waste undergoing biodegradation for landfill design
Unscientific disposal of municipal solid waste (MSW) brings a remarkable change in MSWs physical, geotechnical, and biochemical properties, which is...
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Isoetid mediated radial oxygen loss prevents iron reduction and the related mobilisation of ammonium and methane: an experimental approach
Isoetids are slow growing ecosystem-engineers that maintain an oligotrophic environment through high radial oxygen losses (ROL) from their roots....
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Sanitary Landfill Leachate Treatment with Double Chamber Anaerobic Reactor in Series with Constructed Wetland
A treatment system composed of a double-chamber anaerobic (DCA) reactor in conjunction with a constructed wetland (CW) of horizontal sub-surface...
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Acid-volatile sulfide and acid-extractable iron sediment profiles do not track changes in lake trophic status and atmospheric sulfur deposition
Sulfide formation in anaerobic lake sediments depends on supply rates of organic carbon and sulfate. Improvements to wastewater treatment plant...
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Environmental Issues
Municipalities in low-income nations are spending only 20% of their budgetsBudget on waste managementWaste management and more than 90% of wasteWaste...
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Inventory, mitigation, and valorization of biogas produced in a controlled landfill in Morocco
Household waste is very rich in organic matter and, as a result, produces significant quantities of biogas. In Moroccan landfills, this biogas is...
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Biochemically induced diagenesis of Jurassic micrite: evidence from phase analysis, carbon, oxygen, and strontium isotopes (Franconian Alb, Germany)
AbstractThe marine Upper Jurassic rocks of the Franconian Alb consist largely of micritic carbonate of partly dolomitized reef mounds and bedded...
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Sustainable wastewater reuse for agriculture
Effective management of water resources is crucial for global food security and sustainable development. In this Review, we explore the potential...
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The influence of solid-phase organic carbon on the sorption of hydrophobic organic pollutants in landfill barriers, UK
The Oxford Clay from Bletchley, the Kimmeridge Clay from Kimmeridge Bay, Dorset, and Tertiary mud (Wittering Formation) from Whitecliff, Isle of...
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Waste Quantities and Characteristics
Quantity of global wasteWaste is likely to grow to 3.40 billion tonnes by 2050 with waste generation in high-income nations is projected to rise by...
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Antimony removal from wastewater by sulfate-reducing bacteria in a bench-scale upflow anaerobic packed-bed reactor
The objective of this research was to study the precipitation of Sb and the stability of Sb 2 S 3 during treatment of synthetic Sb(V) wastewater by...
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Quantification of methane and carbon dioxide emissions from an active landfill: study the effect of surface conditions on emissions
Global warming is one of the principal environmental crises, and landfills are regarded as leading sources of greenhouse gases, mainly methane (CH 4 )...
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Recycled biowaste improved soil physical properties of alkaline soil and wheat performance
A huge amount of biowaste is being produced daily in big cities, food industries, and livestock farms. Recycling this waste is beneficial not only...
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GHG Emission Mitigation of Turkish Agriculture Sector: Potential and Cost Assessment
This study uses a bottom-up optimisation modelling framework to assess GHG (greenhouse gas) emission reduction potential from enteric fermentation,...
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Bioreactor Landfills: Sustainable Solution to Waste Management
With the rapid urbanization in the last few decades, more than two billion tons of solid waste is generated annually. Recently, there has been a...
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Exposure risks to SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) in wastewater treatment plants: a review
Coronavirus or COVID-19 is a new type of virus causing severe acute respiratory syndrome which rapidly speared in the worldwide from 2019. One of the...
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Waste from Industry and Commercial Activity
Industrial revolution was the beginning of many comforts in life and so as an array of problems to society. Rapid economic growth as well as...
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Waste-derived biochar for water pollution control and sustainable development
Biochar, a carbon-rich material made from the partial combustion of biomass wastes, is an emerging material of interest as it can remediate...
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Sulphate Removal from Aqueous Solution Using Modified Bentonite
Sulphate ion is a naturally occurring substance present in various mineral salts that are found in soil and various water supplies. Sulphate ions are...