Essentially, the harms relating to the production, consumption and disposal of plastic waste pose a range of threats to human health, nonhuman animal vitality and the environment, as a whole. The creation, consumption, use and disposal of plastic within society also contribute to broader and inter...
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Waste management 2003 symposium: Waste management 2003 symposium, February 23-27, 2003, Tucson, Arizona, USA
Waste management in the early 19th century involved the disposal of collected waste far away from populated areas. This waste was often used for land reclamation by depositing it in swamps or wetlands without following any regulations or restrictions [15]. Sanitary landfills were developed between ...
The safety of high-level radioactive waste disposal has been studied across the world considering mined geologic repositories. Here, we introduce large-diameter, deep borehole disposal as one of the potential solutions for small volumes of long-lived int
Driven by various factors such as facility availability, regulations, economic benefits and common industry practices, it has been reported that C&D waste is being transported long distances from originally generated location to a place of disposal [11,18,20]. While in some circumstances a landfill...