Asia has an e-waste problem. But it’s not the amount of dead gadgets that’s the issue, really—it’s the ability to process them at the end of their lives. New research from the United Nations University shows that in 2014 Asia generated 16 million met
The increasing quantity of solid wastes is a serious environmental problem not only in developed countries but also in the developing countries in Asia. Until recently disposal was the only technical and economical option that could be taken in the management of these wastes. The technology for ...
Plastic waste is a global issue, and within Europe, Spain is a big part of the problem. Ranking as the fourth-largest producer of plastic packaging waste in the European Union –behind only Germany, France, and Italy – the Mediterranean country’s output stood at almost 1.8 million metric ...
M Kojima - Workshop on Material Cycles & Waste Management in Asia 被引量: 8发表: 2004年 E-JUNK CRISIS MOUNTS. The article addresses the problem of electronic-waste, particularly the export of electronic junk from the developed countries to the poor countries of Asi... Holden,Constance - 《...
TODAY's Trash Talk series investigates Singapore's e-waste problem, and how consumerism contributes to the toxic pile, offering ways to reduce waste.
To be sure, Singapore is not the only country in the world that is facing this problem. The United States, for example, is also running out of landfill space and is set to run out in about 17 years. For Singapore, the matter is made even more dire due to...
Southeast Asia’s Plastic Problem Why has Southeast Asia become a plastic pollution hotspot? For one, studies have revealed that countries with more populated coastal areas are likelier to see greater plastic pollution in the oceans. In fact, Vietnam, Indonesia, and the Philippines, which all ha...
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This difference could be due to several causes which escape the analysis of the current work, but the split of congestion at arrival and at departure avoids any problem arising from this data asymmetry. We then follow Lee et al.22 and make a change of variable in the model: \({s}_{i...
However, its inclusion in formal SWM systems remain a problematic issue and considerable attention from NGOs and scholars is arising for solving such problem [37]. In Figure 6 is reported a simplified scheme that represent the selective collection chain of the informal sector [128]. The ...