Waste management strategies

L. Erwin and L. Hall Healy, Jr., Packaging and Solid Waste Management Strategies, The American Management Association, Washington, D.C., 1990. 

Landfill methods are considered the most economical and environmentally acceptable way of disposing of solid wastes throughout the world. Even with the implementation of waste reduction, recycling, and transformation technologies, disposal of residual solid waste in landfill will still remain an important component of an integrated solid waste management strategy.4... 

It further addresses the importance of using some types of energy-derived waste as alternative raw materials for certain valuable components. Moreover, the book showcases research on how certain waste materials can be utilized for energy production, an increasingly important aspect of modem integrated waste management strategies. The main objectives are to ... 

Glagolenko, Yu, V., Dzekun, E. G., Drozhko, E. G., Medvedev, G. M., Rovny, S. I. Suslov, A. P. 1996. Radioactive waste management strategy at production association Mayak . Issues of Radiation Safety, 2, 3-10 (in Russian). 

Fig. I. Schematic diagram showing the life-cycle of tyres including current tyre waste management strategies.

However the EU classification of lead stabilisers as reprotoxic, harmful, dangerous for the environment and danger of cumulative effects and their presence (heavy metal) causing issues in waste management strategies, resulted in their agreed phase-out in Europe (see Section 7). 

Local Government Services Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority Integrated Waste Management Strategy, Coopers and Lybrand, 1997. 

A limited support to complement regulations pertaining to waste management strategy, will be provided, during 2002, by a subcontract awarded by the Tacis Consortium to NTSC (under negotiation). 

An identified National Waste management strategy facilitates the production of local strategies and again using the UK as an example, the draft... 

Before focusing on landfill activities alone, it is worth looking briefly at the other elements of a waste management hierarchy in order to be able to better identify the role of landfill disposal within an integrated waste management strategy. 

Freeman, H.M. (1995) Pollution Prevention - A New Agenda, hi Industrial Pollution Prevention Handbook (Freeman, H.M. ed.) pp 1-8. McGraw-Hill, USA. Freeman, H.M. and Lounsbury, J. (1990) Waste Minimisation as a Waste Management Strategy in the United States. In Hazardous Waste Minimisation (Freeman, H.M. ed.) pp 3-14. McGraw-Hill, USA. 

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