Risk of spontaneous and anthropogenic fires in waste management chain and hazards of secondary fires

Ibrahim, Muhammad Asim

doi:10.1016/j.resconrec.2020.104852

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“…Chemical risks Another risk present in the waste treatment plants is that of fires which, due to the presence of wood, increases above all in the bulky waste treatment plants. Waste fires have a high risk of spreading towards urban areas (in other words they carry the risk of structural fires), as well as forested areas (with the risk of forest fires) [51]. These fires may produce costs for the waste management company (related to the loss of materials and damage to buildings, among others), environmental costs due to air, land and water pollution, costs to society (such as health care and insurance compensation, among others) [52] and socioeconomic costs (such as emotional stress caused by public fears) [53].…”

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The economic assessment of the environmental and social impacts generated by a light packaging and bulky waste sorting and treatment facility in Spain: a circular economy example

Medina-Mijangos

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Guerrero-García-Rojas

et al. 2021

Environ Sci Eur

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Background The waste sorting and treatment facilities play an important role in the management of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW), as they permit the materials to be prepared for their later reuse and recycling. The aim of this work is to carry out a technical–economic analysis of a sorting and treatment facility (STF) of light packaging and bulky waste in Gavà-Viladecans, Barcelona, Spain, by means of a methodology based on a social Cost–Benefit Analysis (sCBA), as it studies the private impacts and externalities (impacts related with environmental and social aspects) to determine the Total Benefit (the difference between revenues and costs) generated by the facility to decide whether it is operationally and economically profitable. Results The key point of the case study is the identification, frequency, quantification and monetary valuation of the impacts generated by the facility, as well as the sale of materials, the CO2 emissions and the increase in the availability of materials, among others. By applying the methodology, it has been possible to show that this facility is operationally (BP = 7.06 €/ton) as well as economically (BT = 55.72 €/ton) profitable. Conclusions The plant is highly profitable from a social and environmental perspective, as can be seen from the monetary valuation of the externalities. The STF fulfils a primordial function for the city of Barcelona and its environs, as it treats waste for later reuse and recycling, preventing waste from being sent to landfills and reducing the CO2 emissions from the extraction of virgin raw materials, thereby helping to reach the objectives set by the European Commission. Finally, this paper provides a guide for future researchers and decision makers interested in the economic analysis of MSW management systems.

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The economic assessment of the environmental and social impacts generated by a light packaging and bulky waste sorting and treatment facility in Spain: a circular economy example

Medina-Mijangos

Zein

Guerrero-García-Rojas

et al. 2021

Environ Sci Eur

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“…Waste fires are common at all stages of the waste recycling chain and concern all businesses that are involved in collection, sorting, preassessment, recycling, energy recovery and transportation of waste (Nigl et al 2020;Ibrahim, 2020a). The issue of fires in the waste and recycling industry, which is referred as an epidemic by Fogelman, (2018), can have serious socio-economic, environmental, and occupational health and safety consequences.…”

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“…Most of waste storage sites are located at urban fringe and fire incident at these sites pose serious hazard for the ignition of both urban fires and wildfires (Ibrahim, 2020a). Incidents of ignition of wildfires caused by waste fires are becoming more common in Sweden and regularly get coverage in the electronic and print media (Expressen, 2018a;Expressen, 2018b;Expressen, 2019;Razooq et al, 2020), and several such incidents are reported to The Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB) (Ekberg, 2020).…”

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“…Incidents of ignition of wildfires caused by waste fires are becoming more common in Sweden and regularly get coverage in the electronic and print media (Expressen, 2018a;Expressen, 2018b;Expressen, 2019;Razooq et al, 2020), and several such incidents are reported to The Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB) (Ekberg, 2020). The wildfires can develop from waste fires either by direct flame contact, through radiation exposure or by firebrands (Ibrahim, 2020a) and the latter factor i.e., firebrands, in general, is known to ignite multiple spot fires up to 2.4 km away from the primary fire (Aronson, 2012). Black carbon released from the biomass fires in the Arctic Circle (Sweden in particular) is primarily responsible for darkening (Berwyn, 2018a) and largescale melting of Greenland ice sheet (Keegan et al, 2014;Berwyn, 2018b;NSIDC, 2019), and affecting climate on regional and even on global scale by scattering or absorbing radiation and changing cloud properties (NOAA, 2020).…”

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Safety at waste and recycling industry: Detection and mitigation of waste fire accidents

2022

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“…Makowski and Niedbalski used the geomechanical method to identify rock burst hazards in underground mining, which helped to predict rock burst accidents before mining operations [10]. Ibrahim used the national data of fire anomalies to analyze the risk of wastefires in Sweden and found that controlling upstream hazards in waste management chain helped to reduce the risk of fire [11]. Ferreira et al proposed a hazard classification system based on the use of the CFs of the virtual substances as a hazardous reference to help perform a preliminary screening, which can be integrated with other criteria to facilitate the identification of PBT chemicals [12].…”

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Exploration and Research on the Propagation Law of Seepage Risk Network in Tailings Storage Facility

Zhen

2021

Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society

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The seepage accident of a tailings pond poses a serious threat to the stability of tailings dams and the surrounding environment. To reduce the occurrence of seepage accidents, this paper studies the identification of seepage hazards, the propagation law of seepage risk, the importance of hazards, and the priority of hazard treatment. To overcome the subjectivity and omission of hazard identification, according to the complexity and dynamics of tailings seepage, this paper proposes the evidence-based identification method of three-dimensional seepage hazards (EIMTSH) to identify the hazards of the tailings seepage system and the relationship between hazards. Then, on the basis of identifying the hazards of the tailings seepage system, the propagation network of seepage risk in tailing ponds (PNSRTP) is constructed based on the complex network theory. By analyzing the characteristics of the PNSRTP, it can be found that the propagation of seepage risk is scale-free and small-world. Through the node deletion method, this paper finds that the nodes with a higher degree value can reduce the network efficiency more quickly and should be governed first. By giving priority to the treatment of hazards with higher degree, the propagation of seepage risk can be reduced more quickly and the risk management level of tailings ponds can be improved, which is helpful to realize the sustainable development of mining production.

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Risk of spontaneous and anthropogenic fires in waste management chain and hazards of secondary fires

Cited by 26 publications

References 40 publications

The economic assessment of the environmental and social impacts generated by a light packaging and bulky waste sorting and treatment facility in Spain: a circular economy example

The economic assessment of the environmental and social impacts generated by a light packaging and bulky waste sorting and treatment facility in Spain: a circular economy example

Safety at waste and recycling industry: Detection and mitigation of waste fire accidents

Exploration and Research on the Propagation Law of Seepage Risk Network in Tailings Storage Facility

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