A sustainable municipal solid waste system design considering public awareness and education: A case study

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (6) ◽  
pp. 626-638 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elham Mofid-Nakhaee ◽  
Farnaz Barzinpour ◽  
Mir Saman Pishvaee
Keyword(s):  
Municipal Solid Waste ◽  
System Design ◽  
Solid Waste ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Solid Waste Management ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Municipal Solid Waste Management ◽  
The Public ◽  
Supply Chain Costs ◽  
The Impact

The municipal solid waste management (MSWM) system design considered here is effective in reducing supply chain costs and environmental risks. One of the practical approaches that governments use to encourage MSWM practices is educating households with regard to reducing waste generation and increasing recycling and composting rates. This research aims to utilize a new multi-objective stochastic optimization model to design a MSWM system, taking public awareness and educating the public into consideration. Further, the efficiency induced by educating the public is also taken into account using its corresponding factors in the model. In this article, two types of truck for collecting the mixed and separated waste are appraised. Due to the unpredictability of some of the parameters of the MSWM models, allowances are made for uncertainty. The proposed model is applied to a real case in Tehran, Iran. To show the impact of educating households, the model is compared with a similar model that does not take educating the public into account. The results show a reduction of 40% in the total cost and an increment of 17% in the social impact as opposed to the model that does not take educating the public into consideration. This acknowledges that educating the public will improve the results obtained.

Life cycle assessment of potential municipal solid waste management strategies for Mumbai, India

2016 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bhupendra K Sharma ◽  
Munish K Chandel
Keyword(s):  
Global Warming ◽  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Waste Management ◽  
Municipal Solid Waste ◽  
Solid Waste ◽  
Solid Waste Management ◽  
Municipal Solid Waste Management ◽  
Human Toxicity ◽  
The Impact

Dumping of municipal solid waste into uncontrolled dumpsites is the most common method of waste disposal in most cities of India. These dumpsites are posing a serious challenge to environmental quality and sustainable development. Mumbai, which generates over 9000 t of municipal solid waste daily, also disposes of most of its waste in open dumps. It is important to analyse the impact of municipal solid waste disposal today and what would be the impact under integrated waste management schemes. In this study, life cycle assessment methodology was used to determine the impact of municipal solid waste management under different scenarios. Six different scenarios were developed as alternatives to the current practice of open dumping and partially bioreactor landfilling. The scenarios include landfill with biogas collection, incineration and different combinations of recycling, landfill, composting, anaerobic digestion and incineration. Global warming, acidification, eutrophication and human toxicity were assessed as environmental impact categories. The sensitivity analysis shows that if the recycling rate is increased from 10% to 90%, the environmental impacts as compared with present scenario would reduce from 998.43 kg CO2 eq t−1 of municipal solid waste, 0.124 kg SO2 eq t−1, 0.46 kg PO4−3 eq t−1, 0.44 kg 1,4-DB eq t−1 to 892.34 kg CO2 eq t−1, 0.121 kg SO2 eq t−1, 0.36 kg PO4−3 eq t−1, 0.40 kg 1,4-DB eq t−1, respectively. An integrated municipal solid waste management approach with a mix of recycling, composting, anaerobic digestion and landfill had the lowest overall environmental impact. The technologies, such as incineration, would reduce the global warming emission because of the highest avoided emissions, however, human toxicity would increase.

scholarly journals Municipal solid waste management in some countries of the world

2020 ◽  
Vol 217 ◽  
pp. 04010
Author(s):  
Olga Guman ◽  
Olga Krinochkina ◽  
Victor Khomenko ◽  
Ekaterina Wegner-Kozlova
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Municipal Solid Waste ◽  
Solid Waste ◽  
Solid Waste Management ◽  
Middle Urals ◽  
Municipal Solid Waste Management ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Mineral Compositions ◽  
Municipal Solid Waste Landfills ◽  
The Impact

The aim of the study is both an analysis of existing basic solutions and innovations in the field of municipal solid waste management and new developments by domestic authors. The main research method was environmental monitoring in the impact zone of municipal solid waste (MSW) landfills. In the process of monitoring, the properties of the soils of the landfill bases were studied by testing them and further laboratory studies of lithological and mineral compositions, moisture and density, filtration and other characteristics. As a result, the following were established: the dependence of soil water permeability on particle size distribution, lithological, organ mineral compositions and the degree of their heterogeneity; maximum minimum-required thickness of screening soils at the base of MSW landfills in the Middle Urals. The established dependences of the engineering and geological characteristics of soils make it possible to use them as natural impervious screens, which can be successfully applied in other regions under similar conditions. Among the constructive solutions in the field of municipal solid waste management, the developments of domestic scientists, which were tested in the Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod and Sverdlovsk regions, are considered. Some of them relate to environmental protection in the area affected by landfills, while others are aimed at optimizing the operation of such landfills. The optimization technology consists in combining the operation and reconstruction cycles of municipal solid waste landfills within their land allotment. It allows involving previously unused materials into circulation and obtaining insulating material from “old-year” waste.

A Study on Environmental Impact of MSW Landfill Site of Two Different Regimes

2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-114
Author(s):  
Rubina Chaudhary ◽  
Shukti Singh ◽  
Nighat Gani
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Waste Management ◽  
Municipal Solid Waste ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Solid Waste ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Solid Waste Management ◽  
Municipal Solid Waste Management ◽  
Dump Site ◽  
Significant Difference

This paper assessed an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for Municipal Solid waste landfill sites of two different regimes. The study deals with two sites of entirely different geographical areas and waste generation pattern. India enforced Municipal Solid Waste Management and Handling rules,2000 and its subsequent amendments for all the cities and towns having entirely physical and climatically different conditions for solid waste management. Still, MSW dumped in open places without any treatment results in severe environmental impacts in and around the surrounding areas, making it essential to assess its impact. Quantitative assessment of ground water, soil and air quality was determined. Whereas in this study, we used Rapid Impact Assessment Matrix (RIAM), because all the components and parameters can easily be integrated into one platform, applying the criteria that were considered to be the most significant in the evaluated cases to compare the environmental and social impact of the two MSW dump site. The RIAM results revealed that the method could be used for comparison and ranking of separate and distinct areas, based on their negative or positive impact. No significant difference was observed in the scoring of the two sites, i.e.the Indore city landfill obtained slightly more negative scoring (100%) than Srinagar landfill (96.6%). The decomposition of waste seems to be more in Indore than in Srinagar due to cold climatic zone. The paper reveals the adverse impact of dump sites on the nearby areas in both the regions.

scholarly journals The Impact of Pay-As-You-Throw Schemes on Municipal Solid Waste Management: The Exemplar Case of the County of Aschaffenburg, Germany

Resources ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juergen Morlok ◽  
Harald Schoenberger ◽  
David Styles ◽  
Jose-Luis Galvez-Martos ◽  
Barbara Zeschmar-Lahl
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Municipal Solid Waste ◽  
Solid Waste ◽  
Solid Waste Management ◽  
Municipal Solid Waste Management ◽  
The Impact

scholarly journals Partnership towards Synergistic Municipal Solid Waste Management Services in a Coastal Tourism Sub-Region

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 397
Author(s):  
Surasak Jotaworn ◽  
Vilas Nitivattananon ◽  
Kyoko Kusakabe ◽  
Wenchao Xue
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Waste Management ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Municipal Solid Waste ◽  
Solid Waste ◽  
Solid Waste Management ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Municipal Solid Waste Management ◽  
Coastal Tourism ◽  
The Public

Solid waste generated on land could potentially contribute continuously to marine waste, with current municipal solid waste management (MSWM) focusing on human-related activities as the main source. While there has been challenges and opportunities in the MSWM’s partnership in the growing waste generation for the coastal tourism area, the aim of this study is to explore public and private sectors as the key players to identify challenges, opportunities, and need for further analysis of the synergistic MSWM services in the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC), Thailand. A mixed-method approach was adopted, including primary data collected through semi-structured interviews and questionnaire surveys. Content analysis, descriptive statistics, and chi-square tests were applied. The results show that the public sector has different MSWM strategies—with public-private partnership (PPP) and without PPP, with many challenges in the EEC region—while the private sector has a lot of potential for MSWM effectiveness. The synergistic opportunities from both sectors can therefore be considered for possible integration into four aspects: challenging synergies within the public sector, potential synergies via the private sector, synergies with a cross-sectoral partnership, and synergies through other types of partnership. Additionally, a synergic partnership was another appropriate approach for MSWM services enhancement.

Assessing Sustainable Municipal Solid Waste Management Factors for Johor-Bahru by Analytical Hierarchy Process

2013 ◽  
Vol 689 ◽  
pp. 540-545 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmad H. Abba ◽  
Zainura Z. Noor ◽  
Aminu Aliyu ◽  
Nasiru I. Medugu
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Solid Waste ◽  
Analytical Hierarchy Process ◽  
Solid Waste Management ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Maintenance Cost ◽  
Analysis Tool ◽  
Municipal Solid Waste Management ◽  
The Public ◽  
Hierarchy Process

: Management of solid waste involves collection, transportation, treatment and safe disposal to landfills. These activities create a lot of impacts to the environment and most of the time impose social and financial burden on authorities handling solid waste management as well as the community. Local authorities managing waste are confronted with problems, protests and resistance from the public because of difference of views and perceptions on impacts created by waste management plans. This paper assesses some environmental, social and economical impacts viewed by stakeholders in the city of Johor Bahru Malaysia. Analytical hierarchy process (AHP), a multi-criteria decision making analysis tool is used to evaluate the views of the stakeholders with the aid of super decision software. Stream ecology, flora and fauna, habitat depletion, land use and air quality are ranked higher for environmental factors/impacts. Public awareness health and safety, population size and cooperation from the public dominate the social factors. Regulation, landfill capacity, operation and maintenance cost and capital cost dominate economic factors/impacts. Four alternative disposal plans (landfilling, recycling, incineration, composting) were proposed and ranked according to the priorities of the stakeholders. Incineration and recycling were preferred to landfilling and composting disposal options.

scholarly journals IMPLEMENTATION OF MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT IN INDONESIA

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 854-861
Author(s):  
Lia Muliawaty
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Municipal Solid Waste ◽  
Solid Waste ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Solid Waste Management ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Municipal Solid Waste Management ◽  
Processing Waste ◽  
Modern Cities ◽  
Group Interviewing

Purpose of the study: The aim of this study is to implement the Municipal Solid Waste Management (MSWM) to help the Regional Cleaning Company (in this case in Bandung City, Indonesia) in managing waste and maintain the cleanliness of urban cities in Indonesia like Bandung City. Methodology: Methodology used in this study is a qualitative method and Focus Group Interviewing to collect the data for the qualitative method. Main Findings: This study finds that from three types of waste management such as centralization, decentralization, and decentralization-centralization, the most appropriate waste management in Bandung is decentralization-centralization because most people in Bandung do not have a place for processing waste. Municipal Solid Waste Management (MSWM) implemented in Bandung still has not optimal yet because the infrastructure and human resources are limited. Another factor is that public awareness of waste is still low among the society. Applications of this study: This study is the application of environmental studies on which results can form the basis of public policy. Novelty/Originality of this study: Bandung as one of the big and modern cities in Indonesia can become a benchmark, if even big cities are not optimal in managing sprouts, what about smaller cities in Indonesia. Therefore, the Indonesian government needs to be aware and optimize MSWM to improve the lives of its people in terms of cleanliness, beauty, and health.

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