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Solid Waste Management in India – Role of Policies and Planning

Ranjith Annepu — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 06:51:52 +0000

Out of all the measures that are necessary in addressing India’s waste management crisis, the most efficient will be changes at the national policy and planning level. It is well known among the small but growing waste management sector that...

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Can Citrus Processing Waste Become Biogas? The Promise and the Limonene Problem

Iuliia Golovina — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 16:11:23 +0000

Citrus processing produces peels, pulp and other organic residues that are rich in biodegradable matter. In principle, these materials can be converted into biogas through anaerobic digestion, a process in which microorganisms break down organic material without oxygen. Yet citrus...

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The Role of Anaerobic Digestion in Food Waste Management

Salman Zafar — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 23:37:24 +0000

Food waste is one of the single largest constituent of municipal solid waste stream. In a typical landfill, food waste is one of the largest incoming waste streams and responsible for the generation of high amounts of methane. Diversion of food...

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How to Improve the Efficiency of Business Waste Management

Salman Zafar — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 18:45:38 +0000

When you consider any macro-level activity, every small step counts. The same is true for waste management too. You can reduce the amount of waste reaching the landfill if you can encourage the best practices for your establishment. The increased...

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Things to Consider While Hiring a Waste Management Company

Salman Zafar — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 19:24:41 +0000

Whether talking about recycling for a home or business, this type of service is extremely important for the environment. Waste has a negative impact on the environment and can cause pollution of many kinds. Most companies that offer both garbage...

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An Introduction to Pyrolysis of Municipal Solid Wastes

Salman Zafar — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 06:07:36 +0000

Pyrolysis is a biomass thermal conversion technology and has been garnering much attention worldwide due to its high efficiency and good eco-friendly performance characteristics. Pyrolysis technology provides an opportunity for the conversion of municipal solid wastes, agricultural residues, scrap tires,...

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How to Effectively Manage Medical Waste

Salman Zafar — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 19:48:58 +0000

All of the items that are used in healthcare must be disposed of correctly in a way that is environmentally safe and also responsible. This includes syringes, needles, and expired pills. There are a lot of used syringes, dirty needles,...

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Palm Oil Mill Effluent (POME) as a Source of Biomethane

Jort Langerak — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 19:47:59 +0000

During the production of crude palm oil, large amount of waste and by-products are generated. The solid waste streams consist of empty fruit bunch (EFB), mesocarp fruit fibers (MF) and palm kernel shells (PKS). Reuse of these waste streams in...

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The Role of EPR in Tackling Plastic Wastes

Ignasi Puig Ventosa — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 19:42:24 +0000

Plastics have become omnipresent in our society. But, unfortunately, the consequences of their use last far beyond their useful lifetime. Everyone is aware of their overwhelming dispersion in our landscapes. The situation in the oceans is not better [1]. As a...

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A Food-Waste Plan for Community Events: Before, During and After the Meal

Wuwei — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 05:01:17 +0000

A community meal does not end when the last guest leaves. Unopened ingredients, food held back in the kitchen and scraps on plates still need attention. Putting everything in the same bin hides useful distinctions: overbuying is different from unavoidable...

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Recycling in Latin America: Promises and Challenges

Be Waste Wise — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 05:27:54 +0000

Latin America has one of the highest rates of urbanization in the world (80% urban population). By 2050, 90% of Latin America’s population will live in urban areas. This high rate of urbanization coupled with the global economic crisis has...

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The Complex Problems Faced by Solid Waste Recycling Plants

Salman Zafar — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 05:00:56 +0000

In the heart of today’s most pressing environmental concerns, the urgency of waste recycling stands out. Yet, even as we confront this crucial part of our global environmental challenge, several conundrums emerge within solid waste recycling plants. Recurring issues are...

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The Properties and Uses of Palm Oil Mill Effluent (POME)

Salman Zafar — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 19:29:13 +0000

Palm Oil processing gives rise to highly polluting wastewater, known as Palm Oil Mill Effluent (POME), which is often discarded in disposal ponds, resulting in the leaching of contaminants that pollute the groundwater and soil, and in the release of...

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The Benefits of Recycling Cooking Oil

Salman Zafar — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 03:37:24 +0000

Disposal of cooking oil is not an easy task. If you try to drain it, it will block your sink drains and cause you immense plumbing problems. Throwing it away is also not a good idea because it causes damage...

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Waste to Energy Prospects in the Middle East: Perspectives

Ruth Khan — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 03:34:35 +0000

A combination of high fuel prices and a search for alternative technologies, combined with massive waste generation has led to countries in the Middle East region to consider Waste to Energy (or WtE) as a sustainable waste management strategy and...

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Date Palm Wastes as a Biomass Resource

Salman Zafar — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 20:04:26 +0000

Date palm is one of the principal agricultural products in the arid and semi-arid region of the world, especially Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. There are more than 120 million date palm trees worldwide yielding several million tons...

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Popular Methods for Sustainable Agricultural Waste Management

Salman Zafar — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 09:52:22 +0000

Agricultural waste, encompassing both organic and inorganic materials leftover from farming activities, poses a significant challenge and opportunity in equal measure. The residues from crop production and livestock farming, including crop stalks, animal manure, packaging, and agricultural chemicals, present a...

Understanding Landfill Geohazards: The Slope Stability Risk Beneath Biogas Sites

Grace Waters — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 05:39:09 +0000

Landfills have become an attractive asset class in the renewable energy sector. Anaerobic decomposition inside a working landfill produces a steady stream of methane-rich gas, and capturing this gas for energy has turned old dump sites into functioning power assets....

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How to Deal With Household Hazardous Wastes

Rehan Ahmad — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 19:36:54 +0000

Household Hazardous Waste (HHW) are leftover household products that contain corrosive, toxic, ignitable, or reactive ingredients such as paints, cleaners, oils, batteries, pesticides etc. HHW contain potentially hazardous ingredients and require special care and safe disposal. A typical home can...

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What Constitutes Hazardous Waste?

Salman Zafar — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 13:37:28 +0000

Hazardous waste is any waste that poses significant health and environmental risks. This waste comes from various sources, including commercial processes and household activities. Examples of waste generated commercially include painting wastes and cleaning solvents. In homes, common types include...

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How to Prepare an Effective Industrial Waste Management Plan

Salman Zafar — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 19:29:38 +0000

Did you realize over 7 billion tons of industrial waste is produced in the United States each year? If you are the owner of an industrial business, having an adequate waste management plan is essential. Without a waste management plan,...

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Biomass Wastes from Palm Oil Mills: Things You Should Know

Salman Zafar — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 07:45:58 +0000

The Palm Oil industry in Asia and Africa generates large quantity of biomass wastes whose disposal is a challenging task. In the Palm Oil mill, fresh fruit bunches are sterilized after which the oil fruits can be removed from the...

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Biogas from Slaughterhouse Wastes

Salman Zafar — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:37:52 +0000

Slaughterhouse waste (or abattoir waste) disposal has been a major environmental challenge in all parts of the world. The chemical properties of slaughterhouse wastes are similar to that of municipal sewage, however the former is highly concentrated wastewater with 45%...

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Recycling as a Means of Energy Conservation

Salman Zafar — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 04:10:46 +0000

Recycling is an effective energy conservation measure that translates into avoided emissions alongside other environmental and economic benefits. It saves energy by decreasing or eliminating energy use during extraction, transportation, and processing of raw materials into finished products. How Recycling...

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Biomass Energy Potential of Empty Fruit Bunches (EFB)

Salman Zafar — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 05:55:09 +0000

A palm oil plantation yields huge amount of biomass wastes in the form of empty fruit bunches (EFB), palm oil mill effluent (POME) and palm kernel shell (PKS). In a typical palm oil mill, empty fruit bunches are available in abundance...

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The Role of Material Recovery Facilities in Achieving Zero Waste

Salman Zafar — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 22:19:00 +0000

Communities across the world are grappling with waste management issues. A consensus is emerging worldwide that the ultimate way to deal with waste is to eliminate it. The concept of Zero Waste encourages redesign of resource life cycles so that all products are reused,...

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The Biomass Energy Potential of Palm Kernel Shells

Salman Zafar — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 21:49:24 +0000

The Palm Oil industry in Southeast Asia and Africa generates large quantity of biomass wastes whose disposal is a challenging task. Palm kernel shells (also known as PKS) are the shell fractions left after the nut has been removed after...

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Wastes Generation in Tanneries

Salman Zafar — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 20:23:14 +0000

Wastes originate from all stages of leather making process, such as fine leather particles, residues from various chemical discharges and reagents from different waste liquors comprising of large pieces of leather cuttings, trimmings and gross shavings, fleshing residues, solid hair...

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How to Deal with Large and Complex Waste in Your Business

Salman Zafar — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 19:54:42 +0000

Are you a business owner? Irrespective of the kind of business you’re in, waste management is something that should definitely concern you. Given the amount of waste businesses generate daily, it can become overwhelming to deal with, particularly when it...

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Contamination in Paper Recycling: Identifying, Managing and Minimizing Quality Issues

Grace Waters — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 06:09:23 +0000

Every bale of recovered paper that arrives at a mill carries some amount of material that was never meant to be there. While the paper recycling industry offers considerable environmental benefits, production efficiency and product quality are often compromised by...

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Thermal Conversion of Tannery Wastes

Salman Zafar — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 18:57:17 +0000

Tanneries generate considerable quantities of sludge, shavings, trimmings, hair, buffing dusts and other general wastes and can consist of up to 70% of hide weight processed. Thermal conversion technologies by virtue of chemically reducing conditions, provides a viable alternative thermal...

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Landfill Gas to Pipeline-Quality RNG: How Upgrading Technologies Are Finally Commercializing at Scale

Grace Waters — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 04:35:50 +0000

Landfills have been viewed primarily as waste disposal sites. Yet beneath the surface of these facilities lies a valuable energy resource that is increasingly attracting attention from utilities, investors and sustainability leaders. As organic waste decomposes in landfills, it generates...

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CRISPR Technology to Revolutionize Bioremediation

Salman Zafar — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 18:10:00 +0000

When people think of waste management, gene editing probably does not come to most people’s minds. Yet the innovative CRISPR genome modification technology fits well within the confines of managing pollution and waste on the planet. In particular, scientists are...

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Waste Management in the Global North and Global South: Key Differences

Be Waste Wise — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 18:14:06 +0000

Waste management is highly context specific. Therefore it is important to distinguish between the conditions in the Global North and the Global South. Recent ILO figures suggest that 24 million people around the world are involved in the informal waste...

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Sewage Sludge as an Alternative Fuel for Cement Plants

Dirk Lechtenberg — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:21:55 +0000

Cities around the world produce huge quantity of sewage (or municipal wastewater) which represents a serious problem due to its high treatment costs and risk to environment, human health and marine life. Sewage generation is bound to increase at rapid...

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Palm Kernel Shells (PKS) – An Attractive Biomass Fuel

Salman Zafar — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 19:57:34 +0000

Biomass residue from palm oil industry are attractive renewable energy fuel in Southeast Asia. The abundance of these biomass resources is increasing with the fast development of palm oil industry in Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand. In the Palm Oil value...

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Waste Management Scenario in Oman

Salman Zafar — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 16:15:52 +0000

Waste management is a challenging issue for the Sultanate of Oman due to high waste generation rates and scarcity of disposal sites. With population of almost 3 million inhabitants, the country produced about 1.6 million tons of solid waste in...

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Biofuels from Municipal Solid Wastes – An Introduction

Dhuha Al-Ibraheem — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:04:52 +0000

Nowadays, biofuels are in high demand for transportation, industrial heating and electricity generation. Different technologies are being tested for using MSW as feedstock for producing biofuels. This article will provide brief description of biochemical and thermochemical conversion routes for the...

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Ways to Recycle Summer Pool Inflatables

Salman Zafar — Thu, 21 May 2026 14:17:20 +0000

Over the last few years, having pools in our gardens has become hugely popular with both kids and adults alike. Which has also meant that summer pool inflatables – particularly large dinosaurs or unicorns – have become popular too. The...

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The Basics of the Composting Process

Salman Zafar — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 10:30:26 +0000

The composting process is a complex interaction between organic waste and microorganisms. The microorganisms that carry out this process fall into three groups: bacteria, fungi, and actinomycetes. Actinomycetes are a form of fungi-like bacteria that break down organic matter. The first stage of...

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