Treatment and Recycling of Municipal Solid Waste
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Waste and Recycling".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (16 June 2023) | Viewed by 1850
Special Issue Editors
Interests: application of LCA; remote sensing and GIS in environmental management; municipal solid waste management; water treatment
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The management of rapidly increasing municipal solid waste generation is a major challenge in both rural and urban areas across the world. It is a multi-faceted issue that affects all three pillars of sustainable development, that is, environment, economic and social aspects. In order to reduce the unwanted effects of wastes on these three pillars, a sustainable solution is required. The principles of reduce, reuse, recycle as well as material and energy recovery can help in sustainable municipal solid waste management. Municipal solid waste is a mixture of several components generated from households, market and other commercial establishments. There is great potential for the recovery of materials as well as energy from municipal solid waste. However, the existing practices of municipal solid waste management are faced with many issues, such as a lack of waste reduction and segregation at source; inadequate collection, transportation and treatment facilities; and uncontrolled landfilling.
The goal of this Special Issue on “Treatment and Recycling of Municipal Solid Waste” is to support the achievement of sustainability goals at each level of the municipal solid waste management hierarchy. Waste reduction and reuse at source are considered the best options. This is followed by recycling which leads to dry material recovery and the composting of wet organic materials. The organic components of wastes that cannot be recycled should be preferred for energy recovery using biological conversion techniques based on the characteristics of wastes. Then, the waste components can be utilized for energy recovery and refuse-derived fuel (RDF) production whenever material recovery is not possible. The last and least-preferred option is landfilling
for the disposal of remaining inert materials in a safe and controlled manner.
The main purpose of this Special Issue is to bring scientific communities together with novel research works and reviews regarding the treatment and recycling of municipal solid waste for sustainable environment management. Authors are encouraged to submit case studies and research applying modeling techniques in municipal solid waste management with a scope of the possible reproducibility of results. The broad aims and scope of this Special Issue papers are:
- Generation and characterization of municipal solid waste;
- Reduction, reuse and recycling;
- Life cycle assessment;
- Energy recovery from wastes;
- Biochemical conversion;
- Thermochemical conversion;
- Landfilling.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Prof. Dr. Sukha Ranjan Samadder
Dr. Atul Kumar
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- disposal
- life cycle assessment
- municipal solid waste
- recycling
- treatment
- waste to energy
