Muneeb Farooq, Adhithiya Venkatachalapati Thulasiraman, Zahoor Manzoor, Sachin Tripathi, Farhat Un Nisa, Asif Farooq, Saheem Rasool, Reyaz Hussain Akhoon, Muhammad Yousuf Shah, Khalid Muzamil Gani
Unscientific dumping of municipal solid waste (MSW) is a common practice in Kashmir. To have an environmentally friendly and sustainable waste management system, MSW was collected from nine study locations of this region. They were air-dried, then oven-dried at 105 °C for 24 h, segregated, and characterized for various components. The overall average organic waste was > 55%, plastic waste about 17%, inert material about 10%, paper 9%, and cloth waste 7%. The calorific value of paper and plastic wastes exhibited was 4910 kcal/kg, while organic waste had a calorific value of 1980 kcal/kg...
April 13, 2024: Environmental Monitoring and Assessment