A GIS based transportation model for solid waste disposal – A case study on Asansol municipality M.K. Ghose a‚*‚ A.K. Dikshit b‚ S.K. Sharma c a Regional Remote Sensing Service Center‚ ISRO‚ IIT Campus‚ Kharagpur 721 302‚ India b Centre of Environmental Science and Engineering‚ Indian Institute of Technology‚ Bombay‚ India c Department of Civil Engineering‚ Indian Institute of Technology‚ Kharagpur‚ India Abstract Uncontrolled growth of the urban population in developing countries
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technologies are being developed to reduce the amount of rubbish that is sent to landfill each year; Energy Recovery Facilities (ERF) and composting. There are many advantages and disadvantages in a landfill. Some of the advantages are: * Waste going to properly designed landfills can be processed to removal recyclable materials before tipping. * Properly managed landfills can capture the natural gas (methane) produced by the decomposing material underground. * Properly managed
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settlements not serviced by any local municipalities. They can’t go to local schools because they cant afford. These children throw their hands in the heap of filth to find something valuable that can be recycled and can bring some cents to their home. Waste pickers often work alone‚ they seek for financial value and usually being unequipped they disassemble the material found on dump sites and later this translates into pollution of the surroundings and poisoning of their own bodies. As they collect metal
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eventually ends up in a landfill. This investigatory project shows that we can help lighten some environmental problems by lessening styrofoam trashes and at the same time turn it into something useful. Recycling helps to keep Styrofoam out of the waste stream and therefore out of the landfill where it can sit for more than a hundred years. The recycling of polystyrene is not for cost benefits it’s for the benefit of our environment. Background: Styrofoam® is polystyrene‚ but most know it by its
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SOURCES OF INFORMATION AND KNOWLEDGE‚ ATTITUDES‚ AND PRACTICES ON SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT OF A FISHING COMMUNITY Mary Ann B. Nicolas Thesis Student College of Development Communication University of the Philippines Los Baños Dr. Ma. Theresa H. Velasco Adviser and Chairperson Department of Science Communication College of Development Communication‚ University of the Philippines Los Baños Nancy Tandang Statistical Consultant and Assistant Professor I Institute of Statistics
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Assessing the Solid Waste Management Practices of Information Technology Students of Iloilo Doctors’ College at their Homes Diego Karlo S. Dosado Jake J. Gabayeron Raymond P. Ledesma Rene Lorenz G. Rios Regine S. Sarita John Marco L. Soquera Introduction The overall challenge of sustainability is to avoid crossing irreversible thresholds that damage the life systems of earth while creating long-term economic‚ political‚ and moral arrangements that secure the wellbeing of present
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Project Work. Fabrication of a twin rubbish bin to disseminate information to the public & to improve waste management. Based on a research synopsis prepared by Kekeli Buckner. CHAPTER ONE BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY Cleanliness they say is next to Godliness. All over the world‚ human beings are tasked with the responsibility to manage and sustain the earth. For thousands of years the earth has remained a habitable planet. This is mainly because human beings have a culture of keeping
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The poem I am choosing to examine is T.S‚ Eliot ’s The Waste Land emerging from the Modernist poetic movement. The modern movement occurred after World War one (1914-1918). This war marked momentous changes on a global scale. Before 1914‚ English literature and it ’s ideas were in many ways still harking back to the nineteenth century: after 1918 Modern begins to define the twentieth century. Among the influences of Modernism were the rapid developments both socially and technologically. Also new
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Current critical debate discusses contemporary poetry in terms of the Pound‚ Stevens or Williams’ era‚ forgetting T. S. Eliot‚ the poet who presided over the literary scenario for almost half a century. Eliot’s bookishness‚ political conservatism and religious leanings‚ together with the Modernist cultivation of an erudite‚ culturally charged idiom‚ have constituted a serious source of critical discontent. For the adepts of Marxist hermeneutics‚ his work came to represent “a privileged‚ closed‚ authoritative
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hereby declared the policy of the state to adopt a systematic‚ comprehensive and ecological solid waste management program which shall ensure the proper segregation‚ collection‚ transport‚ storage‚ treatment and disposal of solid waste through the formulation and adoption of the best environmental practice in ecological waste management. (R.A. 9003‚ Sec. 2‚ d.) Preparation and implementation of waste management programs shall be required of all provinces‚ cities and municipalities. A provision of
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