TY - JOUR
T1 - Solid Waste Characterization for Identifying Recyclable Materials at Peruvian Military Headquarters
AU - Balbuena, Jose
AU - Segura, Homar
AU - Rojas, Gladys
AU - Sosa, Jorge
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - In Peru the solid waste management is an important task for the government, which have been increasing over the years; however, some activities of the solid waste management are not performed. Most of the solid waste ends incinerated or in the landfill, in consequence recyclable material are not recuperated and reused. According to the Peruvian Ministry of Environment only 1.9% of the usable materials were recycled, and public institutions are not unrelated to this recycling issue. The Peruvian Military Headquarter is a public institution focused mainly in all the administrative work of the Peruvian army, so most of the solid waste is office material with high potential to be recycled. In this article, a solid waste segregation and characterization process was included in the former solid waste management of the Peruvian Army Headquarters with the purpose of identifying potential recyclable materials. The results of the characterization and segregation process allowed to recognize three classes of recyclable solid waste, in addition, it was estimated that an approximate of 798 kg of usable material is produced per week at the military facilities.
AB - In Peru the solid waste management is an important task for the government, which have been increasing over the years; however, some activities of the solid waste management are not performed. Most of the solid waste ends incinerated or in the landfill, in consequence recyclable material are not recuperated and reused. According to the Peruvian Ministry of Environment only 1.9% of the usable materials were recycled, and public institutions are not unrelated to this recycling issue. The Peruvian Military Headquarter is a public institution focused mainly in all the administrative work of the Peruvian army, so most of the solid waste is office material with high potential to be recycled. In this article, a solid waste segregation and characterization process was included in the former solid waste management of the Peruvian Army Headquarters with the purpose of identifying potential recyclable materials. The results of the characterization and segregation process allowed to recognize three classes of recyclable solid waste, in addition, it was estimated that an approximate of 798 kg of usable material is produced per week at the military facilities.
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U2 - 10.1088/1755-1315/1216/1/012016
DO - 10.1088/1755-1315/1216/1/012016
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85169572167
SN - 1755-1307
VL - 1216
JO - IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science
JF - IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science
IS - 1
M1 - 012016
T2 - 4th International Conference on Green Environmental Engineering and Technology, ICONGEET 2022
Y2 - 17 November 2022 through 18 November 2022
ER -