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Introduction to Waste Management
• What is solid waste• Why manage it• Material flows• Waste management systems• Issues in waste management• Approaches in waste management
Copyright Anders Damgaard & Morton A. Barlaz, NC State University 1
What is solid waste
• No universally accepted definition exists• A useful definition:
“Waste is a left-over, a redundant product or material of no or marginal value for the owner and which the owner wants to discard” (Solid Waste Technology and Management)
• The definition suggests that waste depends on time (e.g. new products, war/shortage), location (e.g rural/small town vs. urban, climatic differences), culture (e.g food-wise), and social conditions (e.g. poor vs. rich)
• Focus on municipal waste in this class
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Definitions – Other wastes
• Construction wastes:– From work on individual residences and
commercial/industrial buildings• Demolition wastes:
– Dirt, stones, concrete, bricks, plastics, lumber, pipes,shingle from razed buildings
• Agricultural wastes:– Wastes from agricultural sources
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Why manage it?
• We generate over 350 million tons per year• Every governmental unit must address solid
waste management• Waste will cause public health problems if not
managed properly
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Naples, July 2007
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The current state of solid waste management
• New landfills and waste-to-energy facilities are difficult to site
• Public interest in landfill diversion is high and is thought to represent a solution to waste problems
• The perceived risks associated with any wastemanagement facility are high
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The current state of solid waste management
• Solid waste is an area where the technical andpolitical processes must work together.
• Solid waste is a local issue, not something thatjust occurs in industrial areas.
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Material Flow and Waste - 1
ref. Vesilind et al 2002
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Material Flow and Waste - 2
Brunner and Rechberger, 2004
Solid:12-18
Solid:Ca. 6
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Vienna, Austria
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Waste and Economy
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Danish EPA, 2005
Denmark
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Waste Management Systems
GENERATION STORAGE COLLECTION TRANSPORT PROCESSING DISPOSAL POST-DISPOSAL MONITORING PLANNING FINANCING PERMITTING PUBLIC RELATIONS
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Waste management areas
• Generation– Categories– Types– Quantities– Composition
• Material fractions• Substances
• Treatment– Mechanical
• Air classifier, magnet– Thermal
• Incineration• Pyrolysis/gasification
– Biological• Composting• Anaerobic Digestion
• Collection and transport– Source segregation– In-house collection– Collection stations (drop-off)– Collection– Transfer stations & transport
• Recycling Utilization and Disposal– Recycling
• Paper, plastic, metal, glass– Utilization
• Compost as soil amendment• Bottom ash in roads• RDF in cement kilns• Energy
– Landfilling• Ash monofill vs. MSW• Gas recovery for energy
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Current waste management in the US
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Issues in solid waste: 1
• Volume - space: Needs to be actively taken away. Does not disappear by itself
• Nuisances: Odours, flies, etc. Waste being spread by dogs, wind etc. becomes un-esthetical
• Public health issues: Pathogens (bacteria, virus, protozoan, intestinal worm eggs, fungi) in the waste are spread by vectors (flies, rats, etc.) or infected or transmitting vectors are attracted by the waste
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Issues in solid waste: 2
• Economy: The scale of waste generation makes economy an important issue
• Contamination of the environment: Waste components transferred to air, water or soil may cause contamination
• Resource issues: Waste contains resources that should be used in order to save on other resources
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Waste management criteria: 1
The ideal waste management system:• Provide a customised and robust handling of all waste
with a minimum of effort for the customer• Result in the lowest possible load on the environment in
terms of noise and contamination of air, water and soil• Provide a maximum of resource recovery from the
waste while minimising use of resource in the waste handling
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Waste management criteria: 2
• Provide only little impact on the city with respect to traffic, vehicle exhaust, noise, traffic accidents and spill of waste
• Include architectural considerations in establishing waste collection and treatment facilities
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Waste management criteria: 3
• As a minimum enforce current laws, regulations and code of practice
• Economically acceptable!• Ultimately, understanding the economics of waste
management will lead to an understanding of why material flows in the way that it does
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Approaches to management: 1
• Common sense strategy: Some issues should meet defined minimum standards (occupational health, level of service, compatibility with regulations, etc.), while the balancing of the other issues is a matter of discussion/ policy
• Waste hierarchy (3-5 levels):- waste minimization and cleaner technology- waste reuse and recycling (definition is partly political)- incineration with energy recovery- landfilling
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Approaches to management: 2
• Sustainability: World Commission on Environment and Development, 1987 (The Brundtland-report: Our Common Future) defines: Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
• Not many direct suggestions, but a way of thinking: long term issues should receive more attention, each generation solves its own problems, local responsibility, etc.
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Approaches to management: 3
• Life-cycle assessment (LCA) is a common tool used in evaluation and minimising the environmental impact of industrial products, but still fairly new in waste management:
• LCI: Life cycle inventory is the basis: account of all mass flows and emissions as well as energy use and production. We will do some in this class.
• LCIA: Life cycle impact assessment: converts LCI to potential impacts and compares these, e.g., Global Warming
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Nicaragua Recycling and Landfill
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Drop-Off Recycling in Delaware
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A Landfill in Virginia
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