Improving municipal solid waste management in Algeria and exploring energy recovery options

H Hachemi, C Seladji, L Negadi, R Bhandari, S Aryal - Renewable Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
Effective municipal solid waste management (MSWM) posed a significant challenge for
numerous developing nations, including Algeria. The imperative to convert household waste …

The distribution, behavior, and release of macro-and micro-size plastic wastes in solid waste disposal sites

X Fei, H He, X Pi, X Lu, Q Chen, J Ma… - Critical Reviews in …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Sanitary landfills and uncontrolled dumpsites are plastic wastes (PWs) reservoirs
containing∼ 60% of all the plastics ever made, amounting to 5,000× 106 tons as of 2017 …

Comprehensive assessment of the leachate quality and its pollution potential from six municipal waste dumpsites of India

M Somani, M Datta, SK Gupta, TR Sreekrishnan… - Bioresource technology …, 2019 - Elsevier
In the present study, an assessment was carried out for the leachate characteristics from six
major landfills of India. These landfills are located in Delhi, Hyderabad and Kadapa. The …

Investigations on fine fraction of aged municipal solid waste recovered through landfill mining: Case study of three dumpsites from India

M Somani, M Datta, GV Ramana… - Waste Management …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Reclamation of the dumps/landfills having huge quantities of decades-old garbage (aged
waste or legacy waste) in an environmentally sound manner is one of the major challenges …

Determination of residual municipal solid waste composition from rural and urban areas: a step toward the optimization of a waste management system for efficient …

M Triassi, B De Simone, P Montuori, I Russo… - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
Residual municipal solid waste (RMSW) is a rapidly expanding problem worldwide and a
good waste management system could reduce concerns about its correct treatment. The …

WasteNet: Waste classification at the edge for smart bins

G White, C Cabrera, A Palade, F Li, S Clarke - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
Smart Bins have become popular in smart cities and campuses around the world. These
bins have a compaction mechanism that increases the bins' capacity as well as automated …

Geotechnical properties of fresh municipal solid wastes with different compositions under leachate exposure

Y Xie, J Xue, CT Gnanendran, K Xie - Waste Management, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the geotechnical properties of a type of synthetic municipal solid
waste (MSW). The tests were conducted on five groups of synthetic MSW compositions …

Experimental investigation of water retention curves of municipal solid wastes with different paper contents, dry unit weights and degrees of biodegradation

Y Xie, J Xue - Waste Management, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the drying and wetting water retention curves (WRCs) of municipal
solid wastes (MSWs) with different paper contents, dry unit weights and degrees of …

Physical, geotechnical and biochemical behaviours of municipal solid waste in field and laboratory bioreactors

Y Xie, J Xue, CT Gnanendran, K Xie - Waste Management, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the effects of degrees of compaction (initial dry unit weights),
recirculation liquid and rate, and environmental temperature on the long-term physical …

Contaminants in soil-like material recovered by landfill mining from five old dumps in India

M Somani, M Datta, GV Ramana… - Process Safety and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Soil-like material (SLM) was mined from five municipal solid waste (MSW) dumps to assess
its potential for reuse in earthwork projects. The contamination levels of SLM (< 4.75 mm) …