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This includes the collection, transport, treatment, and disposal of waste, together with monitoring and regulation of the waste management process and waste-related laws, technologies, and economic mechanisms. Waste can either be solid, liquid, or gases and each type has different methods of disposal and management.
Bioremediation. The human sewage and the process waste from the manufacturing industries are the two major sources of the waste water. In Thailand, the total volume of the wastewater from industries is much greater than that of the domestic sewage. [2] As a result, an effective method is needed. Microbial remediation of xenobiotics has shown to ...
Plasma gasification: Gasification assisted by plasma torches. Hydrothermal carbonization. Hydrothermal liquefaction. Mechanical biological treatment (sorting into selected fractions) Refuse-derived fuel. Mechanical heat treatment. Molten salt oxidation. Pyrolysis. UASB (applied to solid wastes)
The first organized solid waste management system appeared in London in the late 18th century with the 'dust-yards' system. In the mid-19th century, Edwin Chadwick 's report on sanitary conditions spurred legislation like the Nuisance Removal and Disease Prevention Act 1846. The first incinerator was built in Nottingham in 1874, despite initial ...
Waste minimisation is a set of processes and practices intended to reduce the amount of waste produced. By reducing or eliminating the generation of harmful and persistent wastes, waste minimisation supports efforts to promote a more sustainable society. [1] Waste minimisation involves redesigning products and processes and/or changing societal ...
Zero waste. Zero waste, or waste minimization, is a set of principles focused on waste prevention that encourages redesigning resource life cycles so that all products are repurposed (i.e. "up-cycled") and/or reused. The goal of the movement is to avoid sending trash to landfills, incinerators, oceans, or any other part of the environment.
Waste (management) hierarchy is a tool used in the evaluation of processes that protect the environment alongside resource and energy consumption from most favourable to least favourable actions. [1] The hierarchy establishes preferred program priorities based on sustainability. [1] To be sustainable, waste management cannot be solved only with ...
Waste valorization. Waste valorization, beneficial reuse, beneficial use, value recovery or waste reclamation[1] is the process of waste products or residues from an economic process being valorized (given economic value), by reuse or recycling in order to create economically useful materials. [2][1][3] The term comes from practices in ...