Waste management

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  Año 2009, Número 10

  • Waste generation and characterisation

    • Survey of composition and generation rate of household wastes in Beijing, China

      Xiao-yan Qu, Zhen-Shan Li, Xin-yuan Xie, Yu-mei Sui, Lei Yang, You Chen

      págs. 2618-2624

      

  • Material recovery & recycling

    • Recycling and recovery routes of plastic solid waste (PSW): A review

      S.M. Al-Salem, P. Lettieri, J. Baeyens

      págs. 2625-2643

      

    • Canola straw as a bio-waste resource for medium density fiberboard (MDF) manufacture

      Hossein Yousefi

      págs. 2644-2648

      

  • Thermal treatment

    • Kinetics of scrap tyre pyrolysis under vacuum conditions

      Gartzen López Zabalbieta, Roberto Aguado Zarraga, Martín Olazar Aurrekoetxea, Miriam Arabiourrutia Gallastegui, Javier Bilbao Elorriaga

      págs. 2649-2655

      

    • Furniture wood wastes: Experimental property characterisation and burning tests

      Fabio Tatáno, Luca Barbadoro, Giovanna Mangani, Silvia Pretelli, Lucia Tombari, Filippo Mangani

      págs. 2656-2665

      

  • Landfilling

    • Measuring organic carbon, nutrients and heavy metals in rivers receiving leachate from controlled and uncontrolled municipal solid waste (MSW) landfills

      N. Yusof, A. Haraguchi, M.A. Hassan, M.R. Othman, M. Wakisaka

      págs. 2666-2680

      

    • Comparison of percolation to batch and sequential leaching tests: Theory and data

      Peter Grathwohl, Bernd Susset

      págs. 2681-2688

      

    • Impact of landfill liner time�temperature history on the service life of HDPE geomembranes

      R. Kerry Rowe, M. Z. Islam

      págs. 2689-2699

      

  • Special waste: WEEE

    • Determination of heavy metals and halogens in plastics from electric and electronic waste

      Emmanouil Dimitrakakis, Alexander Janz, B. Bilitewski, E. Gidarakos

      págs. 2700-2706

      

  • Recycling in building materials

    • Influence of content and particle size of waste pet bottles on concrete behavior at different w/c ratios

      Carmen Lilian Albano, N. Camacho, M. Hernández, A. Matheus, A. Gutiérrez

      págs. 2707-2716

      

    • Effects of recycled glass substitution on the physical and mechanical properties of clay bricks

      Vorrada Loryuenyong, Thanapan Panyachai, Kanyarat Kaewsimork, Chatnarong Siritai

      págs. 2717-2721

      

    • Production of lightweight aggregate from industrial waste and carbon dioxide

      Peter J. Gunning, Colin D. Hills, Paula J. Carey

      págs. 2722-2728

      

  • Decision tools

    • Multi-criteria decision analysis for waste management in Saharawi refugee camps

      Marianna Garfi, Simona Tondelli, A. Bonoli

      págs. 2729-2739

      

    • Integrating multi-criteria decision analysis for a GIS-based hazardous waste landfill sitting in Kurdistan Province, western Iran

      Mozafar Sharifi, Mosslem Hadidi, E. Vessali, Parasto Mosstafakhani, Kamal Taheri, Saber Shaohie, Mehran Khodamoradpour

      págs. 2740-2768

      

  • Global Climate Change

    • Effect of industrial by-products containing electron acceptors on mitigating methane emission during rice cultivation

      M.A. Ali, Chang Hoon Lee, Sang Yoon Kim, Pil Joo Kim

      págs. 2759-2764

      

  • Strategies

    • Assessment of total urban metabolism and metabolic inefficiency in an Irish city-region

      David Browne, Bernadette O´Regan, Richard Moles

      págs. 2765-2771

      

    • Intermunicipal cooperation, privatization and waste management costs: Evidence from rural municipalities

      Germà Bel i Queralt, Melania Mur Sangrá

      págs. 2772-2778

      

  • Country Report

    • Comparison of municipal solid waste management systems in Canada and Ghana: A case study of the cities of London, Ontario, and Kumasi, Ghana

      Mizpah Asase, Ernest K. Yanful, Moses Mensah, Jay Stanford, Samuel Amponsah

      págs. 2779-2786

      

  • Columns A Glance at the World

    • The state of solid waste management in Nigeria

      Ugwuh Uchechukwu Solomon

      págs. 2787-2788

      

    • Generation of e-waste in public universities: The need for sound environmental management of obsolete computers in Kenya

      Beneah Daniel Odhiambo

      págs. 2788-2790

      

    • IWWG News & Views

      págs. 2791-2795