Gasification of municipal solid waste: Progress, challenges, and prospects

M Sajid, A Raheem, N Ullah, M Asim… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2022 - Elsevier
Sustainable waste management is the core issue of modern societies because of its
increasing social and environmental concerns. Therefore, the scientific community is …

Municipal solid waste management during COVID-19 pandemic: effects and repercussions

M Yousefi, V Oskoei, A Jonidi Jafari… - … Science and Pollution …, 2021 - Springer
The COVID-19 pandemic has an adverse effect on the environment. This epidemic's effect
on the waste composition and management and the impacts of municipal solid waste …

Towards environmentally sustainable management: A review on the generation, degradation, and recycling of polypropylene face mask waste

L Lyu, M Bagchi, N Markoglou, C An, H Peng… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2024 - Elsevier
There has been a considerable increase in the use of face masks in the past years.
Managing face mask waste has become a global concern, as the current waste …

Circular economy of medical waste: novel intelligent medical waste management framework based on extension linear Diophantine fuzzy FDOSM and neural network …

XY Chew, KW Khaw, A Alnoor, M Ferasso… - … Science and Pollution …, 2023 - Springer
Environmental pollution has been a major concern for researchers and policymakers. A
number of studies have been conducted to enquire the causes of environmental pollution …

[HTML][HTML] Advanced oxidation and biological integrated processes for pharmaceutical wastewater treatment: a review

JB Adeoye, YH Tan, SY Lau, YY Tan, T Chiong… - Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
The stress of pharmaceutical and personal care products (PPCPs) discharging to water
bodies and the environment due to increased industrialization has reduced the availability of …

PGM-free biomass-derived electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction in energy conversion devices: promising materials

S Zago, LC Scarpetta-Pizo, JH Zagal… - Electrochemical Energy …, 2024 - Springer
Biomass is a low-cost, abundant and renewable resource that can be used to manufacture
porous carbon-based materials for a variety of applications. Different mesoporous carbon …

[HTML][HTML] Microplastics waste in environment: A perspective on recycling issues from PPE kits and face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic

SS Ray, HK Lee, DTT Huyen, SS Chen… - … Technology & Innovation, 2022 - Elsevier
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the extensive use of face masks and protective personal
equipment (PPE) kits has led to increasing degree of microplastic pollution (MP) because …

Principal of environmental life cycle assessment for medical waste during COVID-19 outbreak to support sustainable development goals

A Nabavi-Pelesaraei, N Mohammadkashi… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Disposal of medical waste (MW) must be considered as a vital need to prevent the spread of
pandemics during Coronavirus disease of the pandemic in 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak in the …

[HTML][HTML] Retrieving back plastic wastes for conversion to value added petrochemicals: opportunities, challenges and outlooks

M Kumar, S Bolan, LP Padhye, M Konarova, SY Foong… - Applied Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Plastic production and its unplanned management and disposal, has been shown to pollute
terrestrial, aquatic, and atmospheric environments. Petroleum-derived plastics do not …

Recent trends in the pyrolysis of non‐degradable waste plastics

SH Gebre, MG Sendeku, M Bahri - ChemistryOpen, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Waste plastics are non‐degradable constituents that can stay in the environment for
centuries. Their large land space consumption is unsafe to humans and animals …