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Municipal solid waste management in Tehran : Changes during the last 5 years
| Title: | Municipal solid waste management in Tehran : Changes during the last 5 years |
| Authors: | Malmir, Tahereh Browse this author | | Tojo, Yasumasa Browse this author →KAKEN DB |
| Keywords: | Waste management in developing countries | | waste stream | | waste composition | | landfilling | | resource recovery from waste | | biodegradable fraction in landfilled waste |
| Issue Date: | May-2016 |
| Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
| Journal Title: | Waste management & research |
| Volume: | 34 |
| Issue: | 5 |
| Start Page: | 449 |
| End Page: | 456 |
| Publisher DOI: | 10.1177/0734242X16632056 |
| PMID: | 26922086 |
| Abstract: | The situation of waste management in Tehran was a typical example of it in developing countries. The amount of municipal solid waste has been increasing and the city has depended on landfill for municipal solid waste management. However, in recent years, various measures have been taken by the city, such as collecting recyclables at the source and increasing the capacity of waste-processing facilities. As a result, significant changes in the waste stream are starting to occur. This study investigated the nature of, and reasons for, the marked changes in the waste stream from 2008 to 2012 by analysing the municipal solid waste statistics published by the Tehran Waste Management Organization in 2013 and survey data on the physical composition of the municipal solid waste. The following trends were identified: Although the generation of municipal solid waste increased by 10% during the 5-year period, the amount of waste directly disposed of to landfill halved and resource recovery almost doubled. An increase in the capacity of a waste-processing facility contributed significantly to these changes. The biodegradable fraction going to landfill was estimated by using the quantity and the composition of each input to the landfill. The estimated result in 2012 decreased to 49% of its value in 2008. |
| Type: | article (author version) |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2115/62267 |
| Appears in Collections: | 工学院・工学研究院 (Graduate School of Engineering / Faculty of Engineering) > 雑誌発表論文等 (Peer-reviewed Journal Articles, etc)
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Submitter: MALMIR TAHEREH
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