Characterization and quantification of household solid wastes in a Mexican city

Ojeda‐Benítez, Sara; Vega, Carolina Armijo de; Ramírez-Barreto, Ma. Elizabeth

doi:10.1016/s0921-3449(03)00028-4

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“…Garbage burning consumes some modern carbon, but also a large amount of plastics derived from fossil fuels. Some studies suggest a higher proportion of food waste for Mexican dumps than we estimated (Buenrostro and Bocco, 2003;Ojeda-Benitez et al, 2003;De la Rosa et al, 2009), which, if true, would not affect our %C, but could increase the fraction of modern carbon. However, indications are that much of the food waste may decompose before burning (BernachePérez et al, 2001).…”

Section: Cooking Fires Compared To Urban Emissions In a Mostly Urban mentioning

confidence: 59%

Trace gas and particle emissions from domestic and industrial biofuel use and garbage burning in central Mexico

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Abstract. In central Mexico during the spring of 2007 we measured the initial emissions of 12 gases and the aerosol speciation for elemental and organic carbon (EC, OC), anhydrosugars, Cl − , NO − 3 , and 20 metals from 10 cooking fires, four garbage fires, three brick making kilns, three charcoal making kilns, and two crop residue fires. Global biofuel use has been estimated at over 2600 Tg/y. With several simple case studies we show that cooking fires can be a major, or the major, source of several gases and fine particles in developing countries. Insulated cook stoves with chimneys were earlier shown to reduce indoor air pollution and the fuel use per cooking task. We confirm that they also reduce the emissions of VOC pollutants per mass of fuel burned by about half. We did not detect HCN emissions from cooking fires in Mexico or Africa. Thus, if regional source attribution is based on HCN emissions typical for other types of biomass burning (BB), then biofuel use and total BB will be underestimated in much of the developing world. This is also significant because cooking fires are not detected from space. We estimate that ∼2000 Tg/y of garbage are generated globally and about half may be burned, making this a commonly overlooked major global source of emissions. We estimate a fine particle emission factor (EFPM 2.5 ) for garbage burning of ∼10.5±8.8 g/kg, which is in reasonable agreement with very limited previous work. We observe large HCl emission factors in the range 2-10 g/kg. Consideration of the Cl content of the global waste stream suggests that garbage burning

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confidence: 59%

Trace gas and particle emissions from domestic and industrial biofuel use and garbage burning in central Mexico

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“…From Table 2, the results shown that the total generation quantity, daily generation rate, total volume and density were 1464.5 kg, 0.66 kg/person/day, 19.73 m 3 and 74.7 kg/m 3 respectively in Tripoli city. Comparisons between the Tripoli city results and those for African and Arabic countries, the generation rate agreed with All Arabic countries [17], and Cameroon, Burkina Faso, Guinea, Namibia, Senegal and Zimbabwe [18] but it is higher than 0.39 reported in Allahabad, India [19], 0.23 kg in Beijing [20], 0.55 kg in Abuja [21], 0.59 kg in Mexican city [22], and the 0.4 kg in Dares Salaam [23], but it is less than the 1.1 kg reported in Lagos [24] and 0.84 in Lahore city, Pakistan [25]. …”

Section: Household Solid Waste Generation Volume and Density In Placmentioning

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Characterization of Household Solid Waste and Management in Tripoli City—Libya

Moftah¹,

Marković²,

Moftah³

et al. 2016

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Waste stream characteristics must be understood to tackle waste management problem in Tripoli city, Libya. It is recognized that information on both quantity and composition of generation waste is important for the effective planning of household waste handling infrastructure. So, this study is aimed to evaluating the generation, composition and density of household solid waste in Tripoli city, Libya. The study is carried out according to the Annex 2.

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“…sensitivity is not diffused to the solid waste stakeholders and to the whole population. See, for example, the recommendations by Ojeda-Benitez et al (2003) for the city of Mexico:…”

Section: General Remedies To Hsw Problems For the Whole Urban Communimentioning

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A multiple criteria analysis for household solid waste management in the urban community of Dakar

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Household solid waste management is a severe problem in big cities of developing countries. Mismanaged solid waste dumpsites produce bad sanitary, ecological and economic consequences for the whole population, especially for the poorest urban inhabitants. Dealing with this problem, this paper utilizes field data collected in the urban community of Dakar, in view of ranking nine areas of the city with respect to multiple criteria of nuisance. Nine criteria are built and organized in three families that represent three classical viewpoints: the production of wastes, their collection and their treatment. Thanks to the method PROMETHEE and the software ARGOS, we do a pair-wise comparison of the nine areas, which allows their multiple criteria rankings according to each viewpoint and then globally. Finding the worst and best areas in terms of nuisance for a better waste management in the city is our final purpose, fitting as well as possible the needs of the urban community. Based on field knowledge and on the literature, we suggest applying general and area-specific remedies to the household solid waste problems.

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Characterization and quantification of household solid wastes in a Mexican city

Cited by 63 publications

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Trace gas and particle emissions from domestic and industrial biofuel use and garbage burning in central Mexico

Trace gas and particle emissions from domestic and industrial biofuel use and garbage burning in central Mexico

Characterization of Household Solid Waste and Management in Tripoli City—Libya

A multiple criteria analysis for household solid waste management in the urban community of Dakar

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