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Giuseppe Sappa, Maurizio Barbieri and Francesca Andrei
Groundwater contamination due to municipal solid waste landfills? leachate is a serious environmental threat. Deuterium (2H) and oxygen (18O) isotopes have been successfully applied to identify groundwater contamination processes, due to interactions wit...
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Finbarr G. Horgan, Michael Launders, Enrique A. Mundaca and Eduardo Crisol-Martínez
Waste from apple juice and cider industries (pomace) compares poorly against spent grains and other relatively high-nutrient wastes as a substrate for bioconversion by the black soldier fly (BSF: Hermetia illucens). However, global pomace production exce...
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Natalija Topic Popovic, Vanesa Lorencin, Ivancica Strunjak-Perovic and Rozelindra Co?-Rakovac
Every year, close to 8 million tons of waste crab, shrimp and lobster shells are produced globally, as well as 10 million tons of waste oyster, clam, scallop and mussel shells. The disposed shells are frequently dumped at sea or sent to landfill, where t...
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Yi Luo, Aidi Huo, Luying Yang, Zhixin Zhao, Adnan Ahmed, Ahmed Elbeltagi, Mohamed EL-Sayed Abuarab and Hossein Ganjidoust
The Gully Consolidation and Highland Protection (GCHP) project is an important governance measure for controlling source erosion and reducing soil erosion in the Loess Plateau, which has been explored and developed continuously in recent decades. However...
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Coraline Wyard, Benjamin Beaumont, Taïs Grippa and Eric Hallot
Earth observation technologies offer non-intrusive solutions for monitoring complex and risky sites, such as landfills. In particular, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) offer the ability to acquire data at very high spatial resolution, with full control of...
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Ram Lal Verma and Guilberto Borongan
Accurate estimation of emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) is required for making effective climate change mitigation policies at the national level. Among major sources, municipal solid waste (MSW) is an important source of GHGs, such as methane (CH4),...
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Giovanni Gadaleta, Sabino De Gisi, Francesco Todaro and Michele Notarnicola
The role of Mechanical?Biological Treatment (MBT) is still of the utmost importance in the management of residual Municipal Solid Waste (MSW). These plants can cover a wide range of objectives, combining several types of processes and elements. The aim o...
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Csaba Fogarassy, Nguyen Huu Hoang and Kinga Nagy-Pércsi
The waste-to-energy programs that have taken place in recent years present a daunting picture in terms of sustainable material management. The incineration of much organic and unorganized waste in metropolitan waste treatment facilities is not meet with ...
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Alberto Tazioli, Davide Fronzi and Elisa Mammoliti
Environmental isotopes are essential in hydrogeological studies, thanks to their contribution to the understanding of aquifers dynamics, vulnerability, water resources assessment, and management issues. The environmental isotopic approach plays a vital r...
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Nonso Nnamoko, Joseph Barrowclough and Jack Procter
Separating household waste into categories such as organic and recyclable is a critical part of waste management systems to make sure that valuable materials are recycled and utilised. This is beneficial to human health and the environment because less r...
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