TY - JOUR
T1 - Critical review on technological advancements for effective
waste management of municipal solid waste — Updates and
way forward
AU - Prajapati, Priya
AU - Varjani, Sunita
AU - Singhania, Reeta Rani
AU - Patel, Anil Kumar
AU - Awasthi, Mukesh Kumar
AU - Sindhu, Raveendran
AU - Zhang, Zengqiang
AU - Binod, Parameswaran
AU - Awasthi, Sanjeev Kumar
AU - Chaturvedi, Preeti
PY - 2021/8
Y1 - 2021/8
N2 - Rise in industrialization and urbanization has resulted in problems like uprising energy demand, voluminous waste generation, and environmental effects. As a consequence, implementing an efficient solid waste management strategy is gaining momentum. The urgency becomes more evident as out of 17 Sustainable Development Goals majority of goals and their targets have a direct link to solid waste management. Public awareness is essential for proper waste management as well as social and demographic issues. The present review intends to expand the literature about recent technological advancements in the area of minimizing waste content and electricity generation. It also covers the conversion of energy from waste with the help of techniques like incineration, gasification, plasma gasification, co-gasification, composting, vermicomposting, co-composting, anaerobic digestion, and co-digestion. These techniques are utilized to convert municipal solid waste into a suitable source for renewed energy that produces heat and electricity and other byproducts in risk-free and environmentally friendly way(s). More precisely, this paper focuses on the enhanced generation of biogas. This review also highlights challenges, knowledge gaps, and future research direction(s).© 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
AB - Rise in industrialization and urbanization has resulted in problems like uprising energy demand, voluminous waste generation, and environmental effects. As a consequence, implementing an efficient solid waste management strategy is gaining momentum. The urgency becomes more evident as out of 17 Sustainable Development Goals majority of goals and their targets have a direct link to solid waste management. Public awareness is essential for proper waste management as well as social and demographic issues. The present review intends to expand the literature about recent technological advancements in the area of minimizing waste content and electricity generation. It also covers the conversion of energy from waste with the help of techniques like incineration, gasification, plasma gasification, co-gasification, composting, vermicomposting, co-composting, anaerobic digestion, and co-digestion. These techniques are utilized to convert municipal solid waste into a suitable source for renewed energy that produces heat and electricity and other byproducts in risk-free and environmentally friendly way(s). More precisely, this paper focuses on the enhanced generation of biogas. This review also highlights challenges, knowledge gaps, and future research direction(s).© 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
KW - Anaerobic digestion
KW - Environmental pollution
KW - Resource recovery
KW - Waste management
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U2 - 10.1016/j.eti.2021.101749
DO - 10.1016/j.eti.2021.101749
M3 - RGC 21 - Publication in refereed journal
SN - 2352-1864
VL - 23
JO - Environmental Technology and Innovation
JF - Environmental Technology and Innovation
M1 - 101749
ER -
