Hypersaline brines are of growing environmental concern. While high-salinity desalination
and zero liquid discharge (ZLD) are increasingly attractive treatment options, the high salt …

Food waste is a serious global problem. Therefore, it is essential to reduce food waste and
adopt recycling strategies to minimize its environmental impacts. However, conventional …

As landfilling is a common method for utilizing plastic waste at its end-of-life, it is important to
present knowledge about the environmental and technical complications encountered …

The escalating loads of municipal solid waste (MSW) end up in open dumps and landfills,
producing continuous flows of landfill leachate. The risk of incorporating highly toxic landfill …

Composting is the controlled conversion of degradable organic products and wastes into
stable products with the aid of microorganisms. Composting is a long-used technology …

Leachate usually includes toxic organic and inorganic pollutants, heavy metals, ammonia
nitrogen compounds, and other dissolved and suspended contaminants. Careful …

Nowadays, sanitary landfilling is the most common approach to eliminate municipal solid
waste, but a major drawback is the generation of heavily polluted leachates. These …

Waste management (WM) is a demanding undertaking in all countries, with important
implications for human health, environmental preservation, sustainability and circular …

Plastic wastes buried in landfill are gradually broken and decomposed into microplastics
under physical, chemical and biological effects, bringing environmental risks to the …

Contaminated water with landfill leachate (CWLL) with high salinity and high organic content
(total organic carbon (TOC)= 649 mg/L and Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD)= 1175 mg/L) …