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Περιβαλλοντικές ωφέλειες από την εναλλακτική διαχείριση απορριμμάτων σε μικρό δήμο με την χρήση του μοντέλου WARM

Psalidas Stamatios

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The present dissertation examines the benefits, environmental or else, of the alternative management of waste at a hypothetical municipality X. Throughout the thesis it is easy to see that alternative waste management is a vital means of ensuring sustainability and environmental protection. This is not only for the obvious reasons of environmental pollution, but also for reasons less known to the general public. For instance, there is a limited availability of landfill sites, making it practically necessary to use different ways of managing waste, such as recycling, which reduces dependence on raw materials, which also results in the economic growth of a society. In order to study the above, plethora of different scenarios were created which combined landfills, recycling, composting and source reduced as proposed ways of handing municipal waste. The most recent edition of Waste Reduction Model (WARM) of United States Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) was used in order to complete the necessary calculations. WARM is a user – friendly program which can be easily understood, given that most people have encountered its reading units several times. More specifically, some of them are barrels of oil, cars and gallons of gasoline to name but a few. Through the utilization of the above mentioned program we were able to have the results needed so as to analyze and draw solid inferences regarding the proposed scenarios. In conclusion, it appeares that among the methods examined, a more effective approach is the source reduction in both the environmental and energy sectors.

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