Essays about: "social benefits of recycling"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 23 essays containing the words social benefits of recycling.

  1. 11. Are we Going to Burn Everything? Agbogbloshie’s Informal E-waste Workers’ Perspectives

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School; Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Development Studies

    Author : Mubarik Kassim Rabiu; [2018]
    Keywords : Agbogbloshie; e-waste; informal recycling; e-waste workers; human-environment system.; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This study engages with the informal e-waste sector, its financial, environmental and human health impacts as perceived by the e-waste workers. Although recovering resources from e-waste informally is useful to the financial needs of the workers, the rudimentary techniques employed are detrimental to the human-environment system. READ MORE

  3. 12. Waste Management System Assessment in the North of Argentina

    University essay from KTH/Hållbar utveckling, miljövetenskap och teknik

    Author : Maria Eugenia Quiroga Ekman; [2017]
    Keywords : Integrated waste management; solid waste; methodology; waste management; waste treatment; landfill; organic waste; biogas;

    Abstract : During the last decades, solid waste management has been going through a lot of changes regarding, regulation and applications of models and systems. New practices to solve environmental problems have been approached in different scenarios, situations and in different countries. READ MORE

  4. 13. Introducing carbon fee & dividend by writing about morality, co-benefits or pragmatism: First survey results on how framing and backgrounds influence policy support and idea dissemination

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Miljövetenskaplig utbildning

    Author : Tim Isaksson; [2016]
    Keywords : carbon tax; fee dividend; carbon pricing; climate change; revenue recycling; framing; morality; co-benefits; pragmatism; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : ‘Fee & dividend’ (F&D) would incentivize the energy transition by levying an annually rising fee on fossil fuels. Simultaneously, all revenues would be given straight back to citizens, protecting a majority against price increases on products and services. READ MORE

  5. 14. Waste market in urban Malawi : a way out of poverty?

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

    Author : Juliette Barré; [2014]
    Keywords : waste; development; poverty; Malawi; recycling; market;

    Abstract : In 2012, world global production of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) was estimated at about 1.3 billion tons per year and is predicted to grow to 2.2 billion tons per year by 2025. Massive and fast accumulation of waste is difficult to handle especially in urban areas where space is scarce. READ MORE

  6. 15. Läkande landskap : att rena mark och vatten med fytoremediering i en urban kontext

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management (from 130101)

    Author : Fanny Lundén; [2014]
    Keywords : Fytoremediering; förorenad mark; in-situ; giftfri miljö; brownfield planering; postindustriella urbana områden; rekreation; design; Malmö; Amsterdam;

    Abstract : Fytoremediering är en relativt ny saneringsmetod men har de senaste åren blivit mer uppmärksammad inom forskning. Fytoremediering bygger på växters naturliga förmåga att rena förorenad mark, vatten eller sediment. READ MORE