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Waste management for smart cities
Published in Vahap Tecim, Sezer Bozkus Kahyaoglu, Artificial Intelligence Perspective for Smart Cities, 2023
Berrin Denizhan, Esra Kahya Özyirmidokuz
Waste can have a lethal effect on human health. Harmful gasses may occur in waste areas or regular waste storage areas. These gasses can cause death associated with air pollution. One of the problems frequently mentioned in the literature is that solid and liquid wastes turn into gas and increase air pollution. In the literature, Alani et al. (2009) attach special importance to road construction activities. These activities will produce a large amount of different types of pollutants and thus destroy important habitats of the ecosystem, fish spawning grounds, etc. will affect (Alani et al., 2009, Doğdu et al., 2014). Attention should be paid to abandoned garbage, both in urban public areas and in places such as rural or suburban roads. Beyond the degradation of the site, abandoned litter can cause pollution and have a negative impact on the quality of life (Carolis et al., 2020). Air pollution, on the other hand, has adverse effects especially on respiratory health.
Waste and resource management
Published in Stephen Battersby, Clay's Handbook of Environmental Health, 2023
In the United Kingdom the cost of managing litter is estimated to amount to £1 billion, according to Keep Britain Tidy. Demand for action against litter is consistent and hardening as exemplified by its prominence in the waste management objectives detailed in the government’s Resources and Waste Strategy in 2018 and preceded earlier that year by its Litter Strategy for England.
Waste
Published in Tim Deveaux, Bassett’s Environmental Health Procedures, 2019
Where a litter authority has given a person a penalty notice and the person has not paid the fixed penalty in full within the payment period the litter authority may recover any unpaid amount (being the increased amount referred to in regulation 6(3)) and any related costs awarded by an adjudicator as a civil debt, or as if payable under a County Court order (regulation 7(2)).
A visualization tool for citizen-science marine debris big data
Published in Water International, 2021
Graeme F. Clark, Jordan Gacutan, Robert Lawther, Emma L. Johnston, Heidi Tait, Tomasz Bednarz
The tool provides non-expert decision-makers the ability to extract and visualize debris big data, supporting the assessment of policy implementation. Within the state of New South Wales (NSW), Australia, a state priority is the 40% reduction in litter from 2010 baselines, guided by the Protection of the Environment Operations Act 1997 (POEO Act, NSW Government). Litter source reduction is performed through a combination of education, media, council and community-based strategies (NSW Government, 2018). A key strategy employed is the container deposit scheme (CDS),1See http://www.returnandearn.org.au/. which provides a refund for glass and aluminium beverage containers.
Copernicus Marine Service Ocean State Report, Issue 4
Published in Journal of Operational Oceanography, 2020
Karina von Schuckmann, Pierre-Yves Le Traon, Neville Smith, Ananda Pascual, Samuel Djavidnia, Jean-Pierre Gattuso, Marilaure Grégoire, Glenn Nolan, Signe Aaboe, Enrique Álvarez Fanjul, Lotfi Aouf, Roland Aznar, T. H. Badewien, Arno Behrens, Maristella Berta, Laurent Bertino, Jeremy Blackford, Giorgio Bolzon, Federica Borile, Marine Bretagnon, Robert J.W. Brewin, Donata Canu, Paola Cessi, Stefano Ciavatta, Bertrand Chapron, Thi Tuyet Trang Chau, Frédéric Chevallier, Boriana Chtirkova, Stefania Ciliberti, James R. Clark, Emanuela Clementi, Clément Combot, Eric Comerma, Anna Conchon, Giovanni Coppini, Lorenzo Corgnati, Gianpiero Cossarini, Sophie Cravatte, Marta de Alfonso, Clément de Boyer Montégut, Christian De Lera Fernández, Francisco Javier de los Santos, Anna Denvil-Sommer, Álvaro de Pascual Collar, Paulo Alonso Lourenco Dias Nunes, Valeria Di Biagio, Massimiliano Drudi, Owen Embury, Pierpaolo Falco, Odile Fanton d’Andon, Luis Ferrer, David Ford, H. Freund, Manuel García León, Marcos García Sotillo, José María García-Valdecasas, Philippe Garnesson, Gilles Garric, Florent Gasparin, Marion Gehlen, Ana Genua-Olmedo, Gerhard Geyer, Andrea Ghermandi, Simon A. Good, Jérôme Gourrion, Eric Greiner, Annalisa Griffa, Manuel González, Annalisa Griffa, Ismael Hernández-Carrasco, Stéphane Isoard, John J. Kennedy, Susan Kay, Anton Korosov, Kaari Laanemäe, Peter E. Land, Thomas Lavergne, Paolo Lazzari, Jean-François Legeais, Benedicte Lemieux, Bruno Levier, William Llovel, Vladyslav Lyubartsev, Pierre-Yves Le Traon, Vidar S. Lien, Leonardo Lima, Pablo Lorente, Julien Mader, Marcello G. Magaldi, Ilja Maljutenko, Antoine Mangin, Carlo Mantovani, Veselka Marinova, Simona Masina, Elena Mauri, J. Meyerjürgens, Alexandre Mignot, Robert McEwan, Carlos Mejia, Angélique Melet, Milena Menna, Benoît Meyssignac, Alexis Mouche, Baptiste Mourre, Malte Müller, Giulio Notarstefano, Alejandro Orfila, Silvia Pardo, Elisaveta Peneva, Begoña Pérez-Gómez, Coralie Perruche, Monika Peterlin, Pierre-Marie Poulain, Nadia Pinardi, Yves Quilfen, Urmas Raudsepp, Richard Renshaw, Adèle Révelard, Emma Reyes-Reyes, M. Ricker, Pablo Rodríguez-Rubio, Paz Rotllán, Eva Royo Gelabert, Anna Rubio, Inmaculada Ruiz-Parrado, Shubha Sathyendranath, Jun She, Karina von Schuckmann, Cosimo Solidoro, Emil V. Stanev, Joanna Staneva, Andrea Storto, Jian Su, Tayebeh Tajalli Bakhsh, Gavin H. Tilstone, Joaquín Tintoré, Cristina Toledano, Jean Tournadre, Benoit Tranchant, Rivo Uiboupin, Arnaud Valcarcel, Nadezhda Valcheva, Nathalie Verbrugge, Mathieu Vrac, J.-O. Wolff, Enrico Zambianchi, O. Zielinski, Ann-Sofie Zinck, Serena Zunino
The marine litter has really become a serious problem in the Mediterranean Sea. This issue is intensified by the limited exchanges of the Mediterranean with the open ocean, the high degree of urbanisation along the coasts and the high level of maritime traffic. The pollution caused by marine litter can deeply impact human and animal health and create an economic damage to the societal environment. The most abundant marine litter items worldwide are plastics (Gregory and Ryan 1997) and they constitute more than 80% of the floating debris in the Mediterranean Sea (Galgani 2014; Suaria and Aliani 2014). Their persistence in the marine environment and their slow degree of degradation (Barnes et al. 2009) make the plastics a threat that has to be monitored and possibly reduced.