Sustainable waste management is the core issue of modern societies because of its
increasing social and environmental concerns. Therefore, the scientific community is …

The growing volume of municipal solid waste (MSW) generated worldwide often undergoes
open dumping, landfilling, or uncontrolled burning, releasing massive pollutants and …

Dwindling fossil fuels and improper waste management are major challenges in the context
of increasing population and industrialization, calling for new waste-to-energy sources. For …

Plastics have been the most consumed materials of human societies in recent decades and,
in the mean time, one of the major products obtained from landfill mining. Characteristics of …

Recycling plastic waste efficiently and cleanly is one of the key ways to reduce
environmental pollution and carbon emissions. At present, the disposal methods for waste …

Among the various waste-to-energy conversion methods, gasification is a technically
feasible option for municipal solid waste valorization, meeting current emission limits and …

Thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) is the most widespread thermal analytical technique
applied to waste materials. By way of critical review, we establish a theoretical framework for …

Looking for new, sustainable ways to utilize plastics is still a very pertinent topic considering
the amount of plastics produced in the world. One of the newest and intriguing possibility is …

In Europe over 5.25 billion tonnes of waste has been landfilled between 1995 and 2015.
Among this large amount of waste, plastic represents typically 5–25 wt% which is significant …

A circular economy (CE) is conceptualized under different rounds of materials and energy
cycling flows and is a matter of a three-level deployment: inter-enterprise circulation …