Sustainability in Solid Waste Management
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sustainability and Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2016) | Viewed by 108155
Special Issue Editor
Interests: municipal solid waste management; composting; biorefining of solid waste; life cycle analysis
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Dear Colleagues,
Solid waste management has been a wide area of research that has attracted the attention of many scientists over the past few decades. Municipal solid waste, which has traditionally been studied the most, is a stream which, by weight, is at relatively low percentages compared to the total amounts of solid wastes generated worldwide. Emphasis is lately given on special solid waste streams that may, or may not, have hazardous properties. The aspect of sustainability has been particularly introduced into solid waste management during the past two decades. For example, “sustainable landfilling” was a term introduced during the nineties to suggest the use of stabilization techniques prior to landfilling to reduce landfill emissions. Recently, and especially after the introduction of the H2020 funding proposal calls in Europe, the valorization of solid wastes to obtain useful products, or to recover energy, has been a clear priority with typical treatment technologies (i.e., “end of pipe” technologies) becoming a secondary priority. Life cycle assessment (LCA) has been a strong tool to reach decisions and to compare technologies and management scenarios in the solid waste field.
This Special Issue aims to focus on this diverse nature of sustainable solid waste management: from valorization techniques to legal, economic and behavioral aspects and from LCA to quality assessment methods. The main topics of the manuscripts invited in this Special Issue are listed below.
Dr. Dimitrios Komilis
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Valorization of solid wastes and recovery of useful products
- Solid waste prevention and minimization
- Solid waste pretreatment and sustainable landfilling
- Sustainable hazardous waste management
- Special solid waste streams
- Life cycle analysis and economics in solid waste management
- From waste to end product: Quality assessment methods
- Legal issues in solid waste management
- Behavioral aspects of solid waste management
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