scholarly journals The Current Status and Future Potential of Biogas Production from Canada’s Organic Fraction Municipal Solid Waste

Energies ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 475
Author(s):  
Omid Norouzi ◽  
Animesh Dutta
Keyword(s):  
Anaerobic Digestion ◽  
Waste Management ◽  
Municipal Solid Waste ◽  
Solid Waste ◽  
Solid Waste Management ◽  
Biogas Production ◽  
Organic Wastes ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Municipal Solid Waste Management ◽  
Organic Fraction

With the implementation of new policies supporting renewable natural gas production from organic wastes, Canada began replacing traditional disposal methods with highly integrated biogas production strategies. Herein, data from published papers, Canadian Biogas Association, Canada’s national statistical agency, and energy companies’ websites were gathered to gain insight into the current status of anaerobic digestion plants in recovering energy and resource from organic wastes. The availability of materials prepared for recycling by companies and local waste management organizations and existing infrastructures for municipal solid waste management were examined. Governmental incentives and discouragements in Canada and world anaerobic digestion leaders regarding organic fraction municipal solid waste management were comprehensively reviewed to identify the opportunities for developing large-scale anaerobic digestion in Canada. A range of anaerobic digestion facilities, including water resource recovery facilities, standalone digesters, and on-farm digesters throughout Ontario, were compared in terms of digestion type, digester volume, feedstock (s), and electricity capacity to better understand the current role of biogas plants in this province. Finally, technology perspectives, solutions, and roadmaps were discussed to shape the future in terms of organic fraction municipal solid waste management. The findings suggested that the biogas industry growth in Canada relies on provincial energy and waste management policies, advanced technologies for diverting organic waste from landfills, improving biogas yield using existing pretreatment methods, and educating farmers regarding digester operations.

Towards Integrated Municipal Solid Waste Management: A Case of Urumqi, China

2014 ◽  
Vol 878 ◽  
pp. 3-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bin Guo ◽  
Ya Xuan Liu
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Municipal Solid Waste ◽  
Solid Waste ◽  
Waste Treatment ◽  
Solid Waste Management ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Municipal Solid Waste Management ◽  
Fundamental Research ◽  
Rapid Industrialization ◽  
Barriers And Challenges

The rapid industrialization, continuous economic development, as well as increasing urban population and peoples living standards in Urumqi have resulted in a great increase of the total generated amount of municipal solid waste (MSW). Urumqi government strives to improve its municipal solid waste management (MSWM), and the MSW safe disposal rate was already up to 92.9% in 2011. This study presents an detailed overview on current MSWM practice in Urumqi municipality, including MSW characteristics and current status of MSW generation, collection, transportation and final disposal. It shows that more than 80% of MSW was final disposed by landfill and current landfill based MSWM system lack of effectiveness and efficiency. The major barriers and challenges that inhibit effective and efficient MSWM are imperfectness and inefficient enforcement of relevant policies, inappropriate waste treatment fee system, backward technology, insufficient public education and participation, as well as lack of fundamental research. Finally, to overcome such barriers, we propose a detailed integrated MSWM system to facilitate MSWM in Urumqi.

scholarly journals Current Status of Municipal Solid Waste Management Practise in FCT Abuja

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (6) ◽  
pp. 295-304 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kadafa Adati Ayuba ◽  
Latifah Abd Manaf ◽  
Abdullah Ho Sabrina ◽  
Sulaiman Wan Nur Azmin
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Municipal Solid Waste ◽  
Solid Waste ◽  
Solid Waste Management ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Municipal Solid Waste Management

scholarly journals GIS Application for Estimating the Current Status of Municipal Solid Waste Management System: Case Study of Chandigarh City, India

Our Nature ◽  
1970 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Khajuria ◽  
T. Matsui ◽  
T. Machimura
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Municipal Solid Waste ◽  
Solid Waste ◽  
Solid Waste Management ◽  
Assessment Model ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Municipal Solid Waste Management ◽  
Gis Application ◽  
Total Cost ◽  
Transport Path

The population growth in many urban cities and its urban activities in developing countries have resulted in an increased generation rate of municipal solid waste(MSW), an important issue. In the process of municipal solid waste management (MSWM) system in which, collection activities contributed the most of total cost that is paid for MSW collection activities by city’s citizen; and transport activities are required 60-70% of total cost that is the total expenditures spent on the transport, transfer, disposal and treatment of MSW by city authorities. Hence optimization of routing system, systematization of collection, transport and transfer activities is the important components for an effective MSWM system. This article describes the current problems and the improvement of the management activities in a city of Chandigarh. An integrated MSWM assessment model is proposed and used as a decision support tool for daily efficient operations such as collection/ transport path management, load balancing within vehicles, fuel consumption management by using GIS application. In addition, a simple optimal routing model is proposed to achieve the minimum cost/distance/time efficient collection and transport path for MSWM.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/on.v9i1.5729

An overview of municipal solid waste management in Jaipur city, India - Current status, challenges and recommendations

2021 ◽  
Vol 152 ◽  
pp. 111703
Author(s):  
Kishan Kumar Prajapati ◽  
Monika Yadav ◽  
Rao Martand Singh ◽  
Priti Parikh ◽  
Nidhi Pareek ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Municipal Solid Waste ◽  
Solid Waste ◽  
Solid Waste Management ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Municipal Solid Waste Management ◽  
Jaipur City

Anaerobic digestion in municipal solid waste management: Part of an integrated, holistic and sustainable solution

2013 ◽  
Vol 33 (5) ◽  
pp. 1035-1036 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Iacovidou ◽  
M. Vlachopoulou ◽  
S. Mallapaty ◽  
D.G. Ohandja ◽  
J. Gronow ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Anaerobic Digestion ◽  
Waste Management ◽  
Municipal Solid Waste ◽  
Solid Waste ◽  
Solid Waste Management ◽  
Municipal Solid Waste Management

scholarly journals Systems analysis of municipal solid waste management and recycling system in east Africa: benchmarking performance in Kigali city, Rwanda

2019 ◽  
Vol 80 ◽  
pp. 03004
Author(s):  
Telesphore Kabera ◽  
Honorine Nishimwe
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Municipal Solid Waste ◽  
Solid Waste ◽  
Systems Analysis ◽  
Solid Waste Management ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Municipal Solid Waste Management ◽  
Private Companies ◽  
Recycling System ◽  
The City

This study assessed the current status of solid waste management (SWM) in the City of Kigali (CoK), the capital city of Rwanda. This assessment was done using systems analysis methodology of “wasteaware” benchmark indicators for integrated sustainable waste management in cities. This method of assessing helps to assess the Municipal Solid Waste Management (MSWM) in a city according to its physical components and governance features. Data were collected during a 6-month period from May to October 2017, but verification took other four months (Up to February 2018). Data were obtained from official reports, legal documents, and interviews with key personnel and operators and also from official and unofficial dumpsites visits. In CoK, approximately 232,870 tons of MSW is generated per year, MSW collection and transportation is done by private companies but the only dumpsite present in Kigali is fully controlled by the City of Kigali. Residents pay waste collectors according to their social classes and their locations. There is no official recycling system; recycling activities are informally performed by private companies and some wastes, like plastic bottles, are taken to Uganda and Tanzania to be recycled. This study found that the recycling rate was 10% contrarily to the 2% which is recorded by official sources. This study has contributed by filling the gap in literature on waste management for the city of Kigali and it recommends that the Government represented by the CoK should do more in terms of investing in SWM and creating a relationship between private waste collectors and local communities, and the private sector should be mobilized to invest in SWM activities.

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