Sustainable waste management through synergistic utilisation of commercial and domestic organic waste for efficient resource recovery and valorisation in the UK

The aim of this scoping review was to gain an overview of the current state of the literature on the engagement in waste sorting post migration from an occupational perspective, in the light of two aspects sustainability efforts currently face: Increased human migration and environmental degradation. Both the resource recovery and occupational science literature were reviewed and analyzed. However, despite the current lack on studies on how migrants’ transition into waste sorting schemes at the household level, this scoping review was able to provide a broad picture of the engagement in daily activities that support sustainability, such as household waste sorting. Given the current initiatives to develop efficient resource recovery from waste, such knowledge contributes to efforts to engage households with different cultures and experiences in waste sorting. The results highlight the importance of future research to better understand how people who are new to waste management schemes experience these, and study the way that engagement in waste sorting shifts and transforms. This is because providing such knowledge can contribute to raising awareness of the environmental impact of waste sorting, and inform policies aimed at sustainable waste management.

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Sustainable waste management in the UK: the public health role

Public Health ◽

10.1016/j.puhe.2006.05.021 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 120 (10) ◽

pp. 908-914 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

R. Mohan ◽

J. Spiby ◽

G.S. Leonardi ◽

A. Robins ◽

S. Jefferis

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Waste Management ◽

Sustainable Waste Management ◽

The Public ◽

The Uk

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Anaerobic Digestion (AD) of Organic Waste Is a Sustainable Waste Management Facility

Handbook of Research on Resource Management for Pollution and Waste Treatment - Advances in Environmental Engineering and Green Technologies ◽

10.4018/978-1-7998-0369-0.ch026 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 626-650

Author(s):

Asim Yaqub ◽

Kamal Hussain ◽

Kinza Irshad ◽

Iftikhar Zeb ◽

Rashid Nazir ◽

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Keyword(s):

Developing Countries ◽

Anaerobic Digestion ◽

Waste Management ◽

Energy Production ◽

Organic Waste ◽

Developed Countries ◽

Green Energy ◽

Sustainable Waste Management ◽

Policies And Measures ◽

Environmentally Sound

Sustainable waste management of biodegradable waste is one of the serious concerns in developing countries. The energy production from organic waste material by anaerobic digestion (AD) is environmentally sound, energy-efficient, and economical technology that degrades substrate, with minimum production of harmful metabolites, and reuse of its byproducts as bio-fertilizers. The use of small-scale biogas digesters in developing countries and industrial scale or integrated biogas digesters in developed countries has been operationally upgraded. These advancements in the application of AD processes are due to multiple factors, including the economic and environmental value of AD technology, and the dynamics of a range of policies and measures related to agricultural sector, waste control, and green energy production. However, compared to other waste management and energy generation methods, AD requires fewer resources and cost investment, and is therefore sustainable for waste control and energy production.

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