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Waste Management Pinch Analysis (WAMPA) for Carbon Emission Reduction

Improper waste management happened in most of the developing country where inadequate disposal of waste in landfill is commonly practiced Apart from disposal, MSW can turn into valuable product through recycling, energy recovery, and biological recovery action as suggested in the hierarchy of waste management. This stud...

An Integrated Carbon Accounting and Mitigation Framework for Greening the Industry

Greenhouse gases (GHG) emission from industry is one of the potent contributors to the global warming. In industry, the source of carbon emissions related to an industry premise can be categorized into two major types, i.e., direct carbon emission source related to the on-site carbon emission, for instance the emission ...

Evaluation of microbial inoculation technology for composting

Utilisation of microbial inoculant (MI) in composting is a bioremediation technology aiming to enhance the degradation rate and the compost quality. There is a diverse opinion about the effectiveness of MI in composting. The reproducibility of the results is a great challenge notably for an open composting system compar...

Feedstock amendment for the production of quality compost for soil amendment & heavy metal immobi

As the backbone of many developing countries, agricultural sectors face various global challenges, including climate change, urbanization, and some environmental issues such as leaching and accumulation of pesticides and fertilizers. The performance of the conventional farming associated with the overconsumption of chem...

Mitigation of greenhouse gases emission through food waste composting and replacement of chemical fer

A pilot scale composting plant has been established on-campus in Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) to achieve the goal as a sustainable campus. Portion of organic wastes were diverted from landfilling by converting it into compost (organic fertiliser) for reducing greenhouse gases (GHG) emission at the landfill and t...