Reuse of Sawdust in Developing Countries in the Light of Sustainable Development Goals
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(ISSN 2689-5846)
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Technologies of Using Waste as Substitutes for Primary Raw Materials
Submission Deadline: July 31, 2022 (Open) Submit Now
Guest Editor
Mohamed Alwaeli, PhD, Associate Professor
Faculty of Energy and Environmental Engineering, Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland
Research Interests: municipal solid waste; waste management; recycling; concrete; primary raw materials.
About the topic
Dear Colleagues,
As a result of the modernisation and growing urbanisation across worldwide, demand for resources has increased significantly. Thus, the depletion of natural resources is nearly inevitable. Identifying alternative materials to decrease the consumption of natural resources has become an imperative task at this point to safeguard the interests of future generations.
Waste generation is one of the most obvious impacts of exponential population growth, industrial and technological development, and rising consumerism. Most of the wastes do not find any effective use and cause a waste disposal crisis and environmental degradation, and the appropriate management of such waste is one of the most pressing technological challenges.
It has been observed that some of these wastes have high potential and can be utilized as substitute of raw materials. One of the possibilities for the utilisation of industrial and muncipal wastes is to develop a waste management program based on the waste-generation hierarchy for preventing waste production through waste minimization and through the use of waste as a substitute for primary materials as the primary waste management technology, followed by various methods available for waste disposal. Closed loop recycling of wastes as subtitutes for raw materials is the best sustainable method in order to compensate the lack of natural resources and to find alternative ways for conserving the environment.
Preserving natural resources is a matter of sustainable development to ensure sufficient resources for future generations. Utilization of wastes as substitutes of raw materials has threefold advantages of eliminating the costs of dumping, reducing energy consumption, and decreasing pollution problems. This would also lead additional benefits in terms of cost production savings, promoting ecological balance and conservation of raw resources, etc.
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Publication
Reuse of Sawdust in Developing Countries in the Light of Sustainable Development Goalsby
Udeme Udokpoh
and
Chidozie Nnaji
Abstract The several furniture-making phases, from cutting to processing to polishing, produce a significant volume of sawdust of differing grades. The extraction and disposal of such waste in developing countries with no established or sustainable methods is an increasing problem, frequently posing environmental challenges. Sawdust is [...] |
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