Urbanization and solid waste production: Prospects and challenges

I Voukkali, I Papamichael, P Loizia… - Environmental Science and …, 2024 - Springer
The increasing urban population and the restructuring of urban economies are the main
aspects that determine urban development in the twenty-first century. Rapid urbanization is …

COVID-19 and municipal solid waste (MSW) management: a review

AK Das, MN Islam, MM Billah, A Sarker - Environmental Science and …, 2021 - Springer
Municipal solid waste (MSW) represents an inevitable by-product of human activity and a
major crisis for communities across the globe. In recent times, the recycling of MSW has …

[HTML][HTML] Deep learning-based waste detection in natural and urban environments

S Majchrowska, A Mikołajczyk, M Ferlin… - Waste Management, 2022 - Elsevier
Waste pollution is one of the most significant environmental issues in the modern world. The
importance of recycling is well known, both for economic and ecological reasons, and the …

Strategy development in the framework of waste management

AA Zorpas - Science of the total environment, 2020 - Elsevier
Taking into account the declaration from the Treaty of Rome (back in 1957), on
environmental protection “the harmonization of environmental legislations and uniformity in …

Measuring the level of environmental performance in insular areas, through key performed indicators, in the framework of waste strategy development

P Loizia, I Voukkali, AA Zorpas, JN Pedreño… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
To measure “something that is not there”, is not easy and at the same time not fully
understandable and perceived by the citizens. Several elements (such as, waste production …

[HTML][HTML] Household waste management practices and challenges in a rural remote town in the Hantam Municipality in the Northern Cape, South Africa

JMM Viljoen, CJ Schenck, L Volschenk, PF Blaauw… - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
Waste management in rural areas poses a major challenge to local governments in
develo** countries. Municipalities face limited budgets and obstacles with the collection of …

Sustainable solid waste management in Yemen: environmental, social aspects, and challenges

A Al-Dailami, I Ahmad, H Kamyab, N Abdullah… - Biomass Conversion …, 2022 - Springer
Rapid population growth, urbanization, economic progress, and changing lifestyles all
contributed to an increase in resource consumption and waste generation. Global solid …

[HTML][HTML] Map** the intellectual and conceptual structure of research on CoDa in the 'Social Sciences' scientific domain. A bibliometric overview

A Martinez-Garcia, P Horrach-Rossello… - Journal of Geochemical …, 2023 - Elsevier
This article presents a bibliometric analysis and a map** of the intellectual and conceptual
structure of the research conducted on 'Compositional Data'(CoDa) in Social Sciences …

The concept of food waste and food loss prevention and measuring tools

F Economou, G Chatziparaskeva… - Waste Management …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Food waste (FW) has become a global concern, with an estimated 1.3 billion tonnes lost
annually, costing about $1 trillion. Environmental and social consequences of FW are …

Existing tools used in the framework of environmental performance

I Papamichael, I Voukkali, P Loizia, G Pappas… - Sustainable Chemistry …, 2023 - Elsevier
The monitoring and assessment of Environmental Performance constitutes a critical yet
complex area of interest in today's world. The exploration of environmental performance is …