Listar por tema "waste disposal"
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Bioaugmentation of thiabendazole-contaminated soils from a wastewater disposal site: Factors driving the efficacy of this strategy and the diversity of the indigenous soil bacterial community
(2018)The application of the fungicide thiabendazole (TBZ) in fruit packaging plants (FPP) results in the production of effluents which are often disposed in adjacent field sites. These require remediation to prevent further ... -
Environmental Assessment of Alternative Strategies for the Management of Construction and Demolition Waste: A Life Cycle Approach
(2022)The management of solid waste is currently seen as one of the most important concerns that national authorities, particularly in south Europe, must address. In recent years, emphasis has begun to be paid to Construction ... -
Exploring social determinants of municipal solid waste management: survey processing with fuzzy logic and self-organized maps
(2019)In the present study, the establishment of decision-making criteria and a novel and robust interdisciplinary approach for systematically characterizing effects of uncertainties in social determinants of municipal solid ... -
Identifying and Predicting Healthcare Waste Management Costs for an Optimal Sustainable Management System: Evidence from the Greek Public Sector
(2022)The healthcare sector is an ever-growing industry which produces a vast amount of waste each year, and it is crucial for healthcare systems to have an effective and sustainable medical waste management system in order to ... -
Integrated biodepuration of pesticide-contaminated wastewaters from the fruit-packaging industry using biobeds: Bioaugmentation, risk assessment and optimized management
(2016)Wastewaters from fruit-packaging plants contain high loads of toxic and persistent pesticides and should be treated on site. We evaluated the depuration performance of five pilot biobeds against those effluents. In addition ... -
Planning, management and assessment of projects concerning hazardous waste in Greece
(2002)Managing industrial hazardous waste (IHW) is a complex issue. This study summarizes the main industries in Greece that produce IHW, the major types of IHW and the corresponding quantities. Main sources of IHW in Greece are ... -
The relationship between MSW and education: WKC evidence from 25 OECD countries
(2020)Nowadays municipal solid waste (MSW) has become a vital part of the economy, both as an output of human activities and as an input in the economy through material or energy recovery. Education has been shown to be closely ...