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Waste Management and Environmental Remediation

A special issue of Geosciences (ISSN 2076-3263).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2019) | Viewed by 66898

Special Issue Editor

Prof. Magdalena Daria Vaverková

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Department of Applied and Landscape Ecology, Faculty of AgriSciences, Mendel University in Brno, Zemědělská 1, 613 00 Brno, Czech Republic
Interests: waste management; waste treatment; wastewater analysis; heavy metals; soil degradation; groundwater pollution; pollutants migration; soil remediation; landfills; monitoring

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The overall goal of this Special Issue of Geosciences is to explore and evaluate the impact of waste management on the environment. Waste management and the safe disposal of waste have massive and far-reaching consequences for the environment and are of vital importance. Rapid industrialization; urbanization; agricultural, industrial, and economic activity; and, above all, waste management, have led to large-scale land degradation over the past few decades. The issue of waste management and its influence on the human health and ecosystems is a hot topic. In general, it can be stated that waste management always has a negative impact on the environment, especially on soils. Attention should be brought to the issue that soil and land resources provide food, materials, and often-overlooked regulating and supporting ecosystem services on which provisioning services depend. Demands on global land resources are increasing as the world’s population increases in number and affluence. Currently, it is very important to effectively address the problem of land and soil degradation. Good management of land will bring benefits in the form of climate change mitigation and adaptation, as well as biodiversity conservation, which, in addition to improving food security, will provide sustainable livelihoods. In this context, the need to protect the land against further degradation and pollution is increasing, and the need to restore degraded sites for environmental sustainability. Land restoration has been listed as an integral part of sustainable development. There is a need to search for new, adequate remediation, restoration, and reclamation technologies in the areas affected by waste management and other anthropogenic degradation. This issue is of great concern and is a key environmental issue worldwide.

Specifically, this Special Issue aims to provide an outlet for rapid, widely accessible publication of peer-reviewed studies dealing with issues of waste management, waste treatment, landfills, and their related influence on the human health and ecosystems, as well as the possibility of environmental remediation. This Special Issue aims to cover, without being limited to, the following areas: waste management impact on environment, climate change and the waste management sector; landfill disposal and closing; recycling and waste minimization; technological innovation (in solid waste management); and governance, social, and legal issues in the waste management sector.

Prof. Magdalena Daria Vaverková
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • Waste management
  • Waste treatment
  • Landfill
  • Landfill management strategies
  • Wastewater analysis
  • Heavy metal pollution
  • Land degradation
  • Groundwater pollution
  • Pollutants transport
  • Soil remediation
  • Monitoring.

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Analysis of the Possibility of Environmental Pollution by Composted Biodegradable and Oxo-Biodegradable Plastics
by Florentyna Markowicz and Agata Szymańska-Pulikowska
Geosciences 2019, 9(11), 460; https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences9110460 - 27 Oct 2019
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Composting the municipal organic fraction of waste results in a valuable product in the form of compost, which could be used instead of other forms of fertilisation. The organic waste stream may contain oxo-biodegradable and biodegradable plastics used for waste collection. Their components [...] Read more.
Composting the municipal organic fraction of waste results in a valuable product in the form of compost, which could be used instead of other forms of fertilisation. The organic waste stream may contain oxo-biodegradable and biodegradable plastics used for waste collection. Their components and decomposition residues may contaminate the compost chemically and physically. In this paper, the results of studies on the content of selected macro- and microelements in new and composted plastics have been analysed. Statistical analyses were carried out in order to determine the most characteristic components of plastics and to determine the character of chemical composition changes. The analysis of the test results showed that multidirectional changes in the content of macro- and microelements occur during composting, and they may be the source of contamination of the fertiliser produced. Contaminants in the form of microplastics may also be released into the environment, which may pose a threat to many elements of the environment, including animals and humans. Full article
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Identification and Analysis of Sets Variables for of Municipal Waste Management Modelling
by Krzysztof Nęcka, Tomasz Szul and Jarosław Knaga
Geosciences 2019, 9(11), 458; https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences9110458 - 25 Oct 2019
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Due to the large quantities of municipal waste generated, their harmful effects on the environment should be minimized. The rationalization of waste management is therefore necessary to achieve a more sustainable development system. In order to support the decision-making process for municipal waste [...] Read more.
Due to the large quantities of municipal waste generated, their harmful effects on the environment should be minimized. The rationalization of waste management is therefore necessary to achieve a more sustainable development system. In order to support the decision-making process for municipal waste management, this document focuses on developing models for practical use by local authorities in forecasting and managing the size of waste stream in their area. This action, because of its specificity, is a difficult task, especially because of the systemic changes made and the territorial differentiation and changes in the living level of the population. The work presents studies conducted in 2479 municipalities for which mass accumulation index forecasts were developed, using selected methods based on readily available input variables that have not yet been used (structure municipalities and typology of municipalities by scope of influence). The studies confirmed the hypothesis that the amount of municipal waste collected from households depends both on the administrative type of the municipality and on the factors related to the location and socioeconomic function of the area. The inclusion of localization and socioeconomic factors, which so far were not used to model the municipal waste stream, allowed for the reduction of the prediction error of this indicator. Relevant waste stream forecasts will allow local governments to achieve more effectively the objective of sustainable waste management and thus reduce their environmental impact. The achievement of this objective will be possible not only through the preparation of infrastructure to serve the projected waste volumes; it will also identify the waste management areas where the municipal waste reception process is inadequate. Thus, it will help to eliminate illegal processing and the landfill of waste. Full article
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Landfill Impacts on the Environment—Review
by Magdalena Daria Vaverková
Geosciences 2019, 9(10), 431; https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences9100431 - 03 Oct 2019
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Waste management (WM) is a demanding undertaking in all countries, with important implications for human health, environmental preservation, sustainability and circular economy. The method of sanitary landfilling for final disposal of waste remains a generally accepted and used method but the available scientific [...] Read more.
Waste management (WM) is a demanding undertaking in all countries, with important implications for human health, environmental preservation, sustainability and circular economy. The method of sanitary landfilling for final disposal of waste remains a generally accepted and used method but the available scientific evidence on the waste-related environmental and health effects is not conclusive. Comparative studies of various WM methods (landfilling, incineration, composting etc.) show that among the municipal solid waste (MSW) treatment and disposal technological options, sanitary landfilling or open dumping is popular in most countries because of the relative low cost and low-technical requirement. The European Union (EU) Directive on waste landfills has introduced specific goals for reducing the volume of disposed waste and very strict requirements for landfilling and landfill sites. Evaluation of the impact of landfills on the environment is a crucial topic in the literature and has received increased attention recently, given growing environmental concerns. The main goal of this survey was to conduct a comprehensive assessment of possible impacts of MSW landfills on the environment. The main conclusion of the overall assessment of the literature is that the disposal of MSW in landfills entails a number of environmental risks but with respect to the current situation and rich style of living adopted in industrially developed countries, the idea of WM systems functioning without landfilling—at least in the foreseeable future within one generation—seems to be somewhat unreal. The results also provided important information of landfills as a source of environmental risk. Results of this research may have an important impact on landfill management and the disposal of waste. From the literature review, it is evident that even if high levels of waste avoidance, reuse and recycling are achieved, some waste materials will always need to be forwarded for disposal. Full article
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