Challenges, Regulations, and Case Studies on Sustainable Management of Industrial Waste (original) (raw)

Industrial and Community Waste Management: Global Perspective

American Journal of Physical Sciences, 2020

The review focused on the management of industrial and communal wastes. Industrial and communal waste management practices are not uniform among countries; urban and rural areas, residential, and industrial sectors, all take different approaches. Industrial wastes can be classified on basis of their characteristics; Waste in dissolved and pollutant is in liquid form, e.g. dairy industry; Waste in solid form, but a number of pollutants within are in the liquid or fluid form, e.g. washing of minerals or crockery industry or coal. Industrial waste is produced as a result of industrial activities, including materials rendered useless during manufacturing process such as that of food and chemical industries, mills, factories, and mining operations. Dirt and gravel, concrete and masonry, solvents, chemicals, scrap lumber, scrap metal, oil, etc. are types of industrial waste. Industrial or community waste may be liquid, solid, or gaseous. It may be absolutely hazardous, mirror entry, or non-hazardous waste. Hazardous waste can be toxic, ignitable, corrosive, radioactive, or reactive. Industrial waste may pollute the soil, the air, or nearby water bodies, ending up in the sea. Waste management is important component in a business' ability to maintain the ISO14001 accreditation. The ISO14001 standard encourages companies to ensure green environment and improve their environmental efficiencies every year by eliminating waste through the resource recovery practices. The principles of waste management puts some factors into consideration such as waste hierarchy, life-cycle of a product, resource efficiency, and polluter-pays principle. Common waste disposal and management methods include incineration, landfill, recycling, re-use, pyrolysis, resource recovery, composting, among others. An important method of waste management in industries and communities is the prevention of waste materials being created, better known as waste reduction. The waste management industry has adopted new technologies such as Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags, GPS, etc., which enable the collection of better quality data without the using estimation or manual data entry.

INDUSTRIAL WASTES AND THE NATIONAL WASTE MANAGEMENT PLAN

International Conference on Industrial Waste & Wastewater Treatment & Valorisation, Athens, Greece, 2015

The paper aims to disseminate to the scientific community, decision makers and stakeholders the revised national waste management plan (NWMP) that is under adoption in Greece, highlighting key aspects in regards to Greece's strategy, goals, and foreseen actions on industrial waste management till 2020. In Greece, there is a considerable potential for improving industrial waste management to minimise significant adverse effects on human health and the environment. On the other hand, Greek industry can deliver the objective for a resource efficient and green economy, contributing thus to the implementation of national waste agenda and reducing costs for industry in the longer term. Taking into account existing knowledge and progress made in Greece, the revised NWMP builds upon the recourse efficiency flagship initiative in the Europe 2020 Strategy, the Roadmap to a Resource Efficient Europe and the 7 th Environment Action Programme to 2020. Major interventions focus on improvements in industrial waste data collection system and monitoring mechanism, synergies and actions for maximising recycling and recovery options, and the establishment of adequate network of industrial waste disposal installations, including investigation and compliance procedures for stored industrial waste.

Applying the Concept of Circular Economy to Integrated Waste Management. Case Study

SIMI 2016, 2016

Circular economy should define the new model for a sustainable environment and sustainable resource utilization. The traditional linear economy no longer supports the demands of an increasing population for new and better products. Reckless consumption threatens the viability of the current "take-make-dispose" model, and a shift in the mentality of both companies and customers is required, supported also by institutional and policy measures. Consumers will shift to users and producers and sellers will become service providers. Long term benefits and opportunities of circular economy outweigh short term costs and threats, and all stakeholders should keep in mind that beyond fulfilling the needs for material consumption, there is a responsibility towards the environment. Design and innovation will play a key role for the transition to circular economy, and waste will no longer be considered as such, but as a valuable resource, while the emphasis will be on reuse, repair, reconditioning and recycling. This paper assesses the potential of applying the concept of circular economy to integrated waste management, by analysing the available statistical data for Romania and European Union regarding waste management. The main improvement measures to apply are the implementation of a collection and sorting system partly funded through extended producer responsibility schemes, charging for waste generation, encouraging recycling, and transforming waste into energy instead of storing it in landfills. As the results show, a slight increase has been recorded for recycling rates in Romania and EU. However, there is place for improvement, and circular economy could represent the solution.

Circular Economy and Sustainable Waste Management

Paper, 2024

This research explores the challenges and opportunities of implementing a Circular Economy (CE) for Sustainable Waste Management (SWM) in Pakistan, with a particular focus on Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP). Although developed countries have transitioned towards CE, developing nations like Pakistan face technological, human resource, institutional, and financial limitations. Current waste management policies in Pakistan focus primarily on hazardous waste disposal, neglecting broader CE principles such as resource recovery, recycling, and reuse. The study critically examines the legal frameworks, such as the Pakistan Environmental Protection Act, 1997, and the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Climate Policy 2022, revealing gaps in policy enforcement and regulatory capacity. Through a thorough analysis, the paper presents policy and implementation-level recommendations, including regulatory amendments, incentives for industries, and capacity building. The findings underscore the importance of public-private partnerships (PPP), integration of the informal waste sector, and technological upgrades in modern recycling facilities.

Recognising waste use potential to achieve a circular economy

Waste Management, 2020

Waste management historically focused on the protection of human health and the natural environment from the impacts of littering and dispersion of pollutants. An additional and more recent concern is the resource value of waste. Our analysis shows that the regulatory concept of waste in the European Union, which comprises environmental principles, the legal definition of waste, legal requirements, and policy implementation, is not fit for addressing this concern. The legal definition of waste overlooks the context of waste, fails to consider the interests of the waste user as opposed to the waste holder, and aims to control the impacts of careless discarding rather than stimulating careful discarding. To address these challenges, we suggest a legal requirement to recognise the potential of waste to be used, operationalised by formulating a waste use potential, which expresses how and how much waste can be used as a resource, given enabling conditions. Recognition of waste use potential highlights local opportunities for reuse and recovery, reduces the likelihood of careless discarding, and reveals the interests of possible waste users to the waste holder. The waste use potential may be used in the formulation and evaluation of policies for industrial and municipal solid waste in a circular economy.

Recycling of industrial waste and its impact on the environmental quality costs

This research aimed to highlight what is the importance of environmental accounting and the recognition of environmental quality costs of industrial facilities ?, and where operations and production produces waste need to take measures including disposal of this waste operations ?, and how to discharge , either dumped or incineration or landfill or drown in the surrounding environment without incurring any material reward for this: leading to causing damage can accumulate and become great in the end, so there was a need to reconsider how to get rid of them by recycling the waste so as to diminish the claim by communities to download contaminated facilities more environmentally responsible by the costs to the environment spontaneously.

Circular patterns of waste prevention and recovery

E3S Web of Conferences

The growth of modern societies with their scientific, economic and social achievements was made possible by the cheap availability of fossil fuels. Side effects of fossil energy resources were the development of unsustainable production and consumption patterns, the degradation of natural capital, and the release of airborne, waterborne and solid waste. Consumption and environmental loading are not only related to fuels, but also to other material resources, such as minerals in general and rare earths in particular. The increasing shortage of crucial resources affects and constrains important economic sectors (e.g., electronic sectors, renewable energies, food production), thus placing a limit on further development and wellbeing. Concepts of sustainable economies and communities, with focus on the social dimension of development and also on the ecological and economic aspects at the same time, are gaining the attention of policy makers, managers, and investors, as well as local sta...

Zero Waste: A Concept of Sustainable Industrial Ecology

2009

impact on the standard of living and population growth of the developing country, the volume of waste increasing at an alarming rate. Due to poor disposal system and lack of awareness of the environmental externalities in the developing countries, the waste management facilities are sub optimal in many cases. This sub optimal waste management system may cause major damages to the environment, which may be the reason for health hazards in the developing country. In such a context, the paper emphasizes on the problems, disposal and treatment of waste to develop the sustainable industrial ecology.