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Is it worth generating energy with garbage? Defining a carbon tax to encourage waste-to-energy cycles
(2020-06-05)
The rising of municipal solid waste generation is a serious current problem, whose incorrect disposal leads to major impacts to human health and the environment. Waste-to-Energy systems have been some of the adopted solutions ...
Recycling potential of urban solid waste destined for sanitary landfills: the case of Indaiatuba, SP, Brazil
(Sage Publications Ltd, 2007-12-01)
The urban solid waste of the city of Indaiatuba (pop. 175 000), located in the state of São Paulo, was characterized, focusing on the recycling potential. For this purpose, collected waste was subdivided into 27 items, ...
Evaluation and quantification of household wastes sent for recycling through a selective waste collection system
(2016-03-01)
Studies on solid waste production and composition can provide information to underpin the implementation and/or expansion of selective waste collection systems. This paper presents data about household solid wastes disposed ...
Residues of organochlorine pesticides and PCBs in some Brazilian municipal solid waste compost
(2007-08-01)
Persistent organic pollutants (POPs), organochlorine pesticides and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), listed as per the Stockholm Convention (α -HCH, β -HCH, γ -HCH, p,p′-DDT, o,p′-DDT, p,p′-DDD, p,p′-DDE, aldrin, endrin, ...
Scenario evaluation for the management of household solid waste in small Brazilian municipalities
(2017-01-01)
As achieving Brazil’s National Policy on Solid Waste-based goals effectively is not simple, there are alternatives such as intermunicipal cooperation by consortium or privatization. Therefore, this study aimed to evaluate ...
Influence of population, income and electricity consumption on per capita municipal solid waste generation in So Paulo State, Brazil
(Springer, 2018-04-01)
Predicting municipal solid waste (MSW) generation is fundamental in choosing and scaling the processes involved in municipal management. The challenge for financial sustainability is to create indicators that enable MSW ...
Recycling capacity through formal and informal activities in six cities in São Paulo State, Brazil
(2021-01-01)
Sustainability of waste management practices is a multidimensional challenge faced by authorities worldwide, especially in low and middle-income countries, where informal sector plays important role. In Brazil, municipal ...
Constitutive model for long term municipal solid waste mechanical behavior
(ELSEVIER SCI LTD, 2008)
This paper presents some improvements in the model proposed by Machado et al. [Machado SL, Carvalho MF, Vilar OM. Constitutive model for municipal solid waste. J Geotech Geoenviron Eng ASCE 2002; 128(11):940-51] now ...
Regional distance routes estimation for municipal solid waste disposal, case study são paulo state, brazil
(2021-07-01)
The urban population increase in the world, the economic expansion, and the rise in living standards associated with society’s habits and lifestyles accelerated the municipal solid waste (MSW) generation in undeveloped ...
Development of a correlation to estimate per capita municipal solid waste generation rates in Sao Paulo state, Brazil: population, per capita income and electricity consumption influences
(Assoc Brasileira Engenharia Sanitaria Ambiental, 2018-03-01)
Forecasting municipal solid waste (MSW) generation is fundamental in choosing and scaling the operations and processes involved in municipal management. The challenge for the financial sustainability of this management is ...