Waste Management and Its Environmental Performance
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2023) | Viewed by 1999
Special Issue Editors
Interests: solid waste management; material flow analysis; resource management; environmental system engineering
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Interests: waste management; waste separation behavior; environmental policy; behavior recurrence; data mining; policy evaluation
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Interests: solid waste treatment; leachate treatment; resource recovery
Interests: treatment, disposal and resource utilization of solid waste; environmental processes in landfills; interfacial processes relevant to dissolution and redox
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
How to balance the relationship between eco-environmental protection and socio-economic development is a global issue. Especially with the ongoing global resource and energy crisis, developing countries must find solutions to these problems. With the acceleration of industrialization and urbanization, significant changes have taken place in individual lifestyle and consumption structure, resulting in increasingly serious waste problems (pollution, health, sustainability, etc.). Effective waste management from source, collection and transportation to disposal has been a subject of great concern. This social issue involves government departments, collection and transportation departments, waste disposal enterprises, residents and others. Whether it is achieved through the collaborative treatment of waste among multiple entities, or if each entity takes their own action (e.g., the formulation of effective policies by the government, separation and recycling at the source by residents, and market incentives by enterprises), it will affect the effectiveness of waste management and the level of harm caused by, resources reclaimed from, and overall reduction of waste. Moreover, the environmental benefits and other benefits brought by the treatment of waste need to be further explored in order continuously feed back the problems or excellent methods to all links of waste management and improve the waste management measures at all links.
This Special Issue of Sustainability aims to improve waste management and ameliorate associated environmental issues. We welcome papers on topics including, but not limited to:
- Evaluation of waste management policy.
- Waste management patterns.
- Source separation/recycling behavior.
- Optimization of waste collection and transportation.
- Waste disposal and carbon emissions.
- Waste treatment and pollution.
- Waste management and human health.
- Waste management based on big data.
- Environmental performance.
Dr. Xiaofeng Gao
Prof. Dr. Feiyu Chen
Dr. Tao Zhou
Dr. Hongping He
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- waste management
- waste separation
- waste recycling
- environmental performance
- evaluation
- waste disposal
- collection and transportation
- carbon emission
- human health
- pollution
- big data
