Essays about: "proper waste management"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 47 essays containing the words proper waste management.

  1. 21. Practical Implementation of Lean at Small and Young Companies

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Industriell Produktion

    Author : Fredrik Hasselgren; [2018]
    Keywords : “Lean SME”; “Lean Small Company”; “Lean Manufacturing”; “Practical Lean Implementation”; “Lean Young Company”; Technology and Engineering;

    Abstract : Introduction: This thesis aims to investigate how a small and young company can implement the management philosophy Lean. The thesis is designed as a literature study with two objectives. The first objective is to identify what Lean is and what its underlying tools, methods and principles are. READ MORE

  3. 22. Sanitation and Waste to Value for Informal Settlements : A field study in Johannesburg, South Africa

    University essay from KTH/Skolan för industriell teknik och management (ITM); KTH/Hållbar utveckling, miljövetenskap och teknik

    Author : Johanna Windh; Kristin Holmlund; [2018]
    Keywords : sSWOT-analysis; biogas; sanitation;

    Abstract : Access to adequate sanitation and renewable clean energy can improve the living standards in developing communities in informal settlements. This can also generate effects such as reduced unemployment and better health, which in turn can contribute to less violence and less segregation. READ MORE

  4. 23. An investigation into Swedish E-waste collection and recycling system - A case study in Gothenburg

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Yiwei Zhang; Peyman Bashiri; [2017-06-29]
    Keywords : E-waste management; reverse logistics; Sweden; Gothenburg; E-waste collecting and recycling system;

    Abstract : With the fast growth of information communication technologies industry, the amount of electrical and electronic waste also increases quickly. If they are treated in wrong way, some hazardous components of E-waste might pollute environment and threaten human health. However, proper treatment can make E-waste become resource and be used again. READ MORE

  5. 24. The energy system of Greece : A Techno-economic and Environmental Approach

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för bygg- energi- och miljöteknik

    Author : Stelios Kastis; Vaggelis Kitsios; [2017]
    Keywords : Fossil fuels; renewable energy; electricity; CO2eq emissions; environmental impact; power plants; energy costs; LCA;

    Abstract : The human effort to continuously improve their standard of living in conjunction with the rapid growth of world‟s population, the reckless and the wasteful misuse of energy reserves threaten to lead mankind in an energy deadlock. In an effort to realize the size of the waste of our planet‟s available energy resources, we only need to point out that people have spent the last century stocks of raw materials and energy, which were saved and produced during the lifetime of our planet. READ MORE

  6. 25. Water Literacy in Developing Country - A case study for Indonesia

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Teknisk vattenresurslära

    Author : Arlisa Febriani; [2017]
    Keywords : water literacy; developing country; water education; water conservation; Science General;

    Abstract : Public participation is vital to ensure sustainable water management, and providing education is one of the way to trigger participation. For decades, developed countries try to educate their citizen to be environmentally literate, and for the water sector, water-related knowledge has been introduced to the public by schools, municipalities and water utilities. READ MORE