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Creating a competing demand for waste resources: a strategy for waste minimization in Nigeria

Solid waste management in Nigeria is a social and public health concern. Waste problems are more serious in cities as the communities lead a non-indigenous lifestyle with respect to resource consumption and wastage. Nigerian municipal waste has organic bio ...

A World Resources Forum Production, PSI2017

MUNICIPAL WATER/WASTEWATER AGENCY SERVICES: SHIFTING FROM LINEAR TO CIRCULAR

Municipal water/wastewater agencies play an essential role in community well-being. Traditionally, municipal water/wastewater agencies have followed a linear (“take, make, dispose“) mode of thinking based on resource extraction. Often, the model follows th ...

A World Resources Forum Production, PSI2017

Drivers for and against municipal wastewater recycling: a review

Janet Gordon Hering

The reclamation, treatment and reuse of municipal wastewater can provide important environmental benefits. In this paper, 25 studies on this topic were reviewed and it was found that there are many (> 150) different drivers acting for and against wastewate ...

IWA Publishing2016

Sputtered Cu-polyethylene films inducing bacteria inactivation in the dark and under low intensity sunlight

César Pulgarin, Juan Kiwi, Sami Rtimi, Oualid Baghriche, Laura Victoria Suárez Murillo

This study addresses the preparation of uniform, adhesive and robust thin Cu-polyethylene films (PE-CuOx) by direct current magnetron sputtering (DCMS). Cu-coatings of 25 nm sputtered with 60W deposited 0.16% weight Cu/weight PE leading to the fastest bact ...

Elsevier Science Sa2016

A silica-based magnetic platform decorated with mixed ligand gold nanoparticles: a recyclable catalyst for esterification reactions

Francesco Stellacci, Randy Patrick Carney, Elif Ertem Bekdemir, Emma-Rose Janecek

A novel and convenient synthetic strategy for the preparation of magnetically responsive silica nanospheres decorated with mixed ligand protected gold nanoparticles is described. Gold nanoparticles are attached to the silica surface via stable amide bond f ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2016

Water and Waste Reuse to Enhance Environmental and Human Health

As strategies in sustainability permeate modern engineering approaches, opportunities to re-engineer our water and sanitation systems in ways that simultaneously address human and ecological needs become apparent. Yet uncertainties remain regarding the hum ...

2015

Why Do Some Water Utilities Recycle More than Others? A Qualitative Comparative Analysis in New South Wales, Australia

Janet Gordon Hering

Although the recycling of municipal wastewater can play an important role in water supply security and ecosystem protection, the percentage of wastewater recycled is generally low and strikingly variable. Previous research has employed detailed case studie ...

Amer Chemical Soc2015

Properties of mortars produced with reactivated cementitious materials

Ricardo Javier Serpell Carriquiry

The production of reactivated cementitious materials is an option for the recycling of hydrated-cement-rich fines discarded during recycled aggregate production. Reactivation is based on a thermal process where calcium silicate hydrates present in the fine ...

2015

High resolution scrape-off layer profile measurements in limited and diverted plasmas in C-Mod -- investigation of heat flux channel width physics

Christian Gabriel Theiler

Narrow scrape-off layer (SOL) heat flux channel widths (λq) are seen on many tokamaks, both in inner-wall limited (IWL) and diverted discharges. These observations have important consequences for ITER and reactors, impacting the design of inner limiter til ...

2014

Enhancing Recycling of Construction Materials: An Agent Based Model with Empirically Based Decision Parameters

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer

Recycling of construction material is a valuable option for minimizing construction & demolition waste streams to landfills and mitigating primary mineral resource depletion. Material flows in the construction sector are governed by a complex socio-technic ...

University of Surrey, Department of Sociology2014

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