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This paper lists several opportunities for China to advance MSW policies and practices. In addition to building on lessons learned from countries with decades of experience in implementing separation at source programs, including lessons on dealing with the informal sector, China's extended responsibility systems (EPR) for different waste streams including packaging waste could be tested locally and if successful, could then be prioritized. EPR schemes could be used to introduce incentives for eco-design, create a sustainable production and consumption pattern, reduce landfilling and develop recycling and recovery channels. China could also more comprehensively test the regional approach for service delivery especially for underserved county and rural areas. There is an opportunity to deepen urban-rural integration enhance economies of scale, and improve efficiency through regional integration in waste service provision. This would not only improve the quality of service provision but support financial sustainability and help offset some of the increased financial costs for circularity. Ensuring sustainable operational financing is important to provide for public-private partnerships, a stated priority of the government; sustain earlier and current investments; and permit future development of facilities.

Environment --- Environmental Economics and Policies --- Municipal Waste --- Pollution Management and Control --- Recycling --- Waste Disposal and Utilization --- Water Supply and Sanitation

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Municipal solid waste (MSW) management system is one of the key components of a country's overall environmental and resource efficiency framework. Inefficient MSW treatment in Russia today is causing negative environmental impact, and results in suboptimal use of raw materials and energy. If Russia optimized its MSW management policy and implemented modern technologies, by 2025 it could fully shift towards environmentally friendly MSW management system and recover up to 45 percent of waste. As a result, by 2025 more than 200 metric tons of MSW would be recovered to raw materials and energy instead of landfilling. This would require investing up to 40 billion and would generate additional 2 billion in revenues from recoverable fractions.

Energy --- Energy and Environment --- Environment --- Environment and Energy Efficiency --- Fires --- Groundwater --- Industrial Waste --- Landfills --- Municipal Waste --- Natural Resources --- Recycling --- Sanitation and Sewerage --- Waste Treatment --- Wastewater Treatment --- Water Supply and Sanitation

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Along with economic growth and improved living standards, waste from households, industries, and commercial or service establishments is expected to increase rapidly over the next years. Managing this waste is a hard challenge for the Government of Vietnam because of its substantial cost and lack of awareness and participation of people and businesses. Wastes can be classified according to: their form (wastewater, solid waste); their origin (industrial wastes, agricultural wastes, urban (municipal) wastes); and their hazardous nature (non-hazardous or hazardous).

Carbon Dioxide --- Carbon Finance --- Chemicals --- Climate --- Climate Change --- Climate Change Mitigation and Green House Gases --- Electricity --- Emission Reductions --- Emissions --- Energy Efficiency --- Energy Production --- Environment --- Environmental Engineering --- Fossil Fuels --- Fuels --- Greenhouse Gases --- Hazardous Waste --- Lakes --- Landfill Gas --- Landfills --- Latrines --- Methane --- Mining --- Municipal Waste --- Natural Resources --- Nitrous Oxide Emissions --- Pesticides --- Power Generation --- Power Plants --- Renewable Energy --- Runoff --- Sanitation --- Sanitation and Sewerage --- Surface Water --- Textile Industry --- Waste --- Waste Management --- Waste Treatment --- Wastewater --- Wastewater Treatment --- Water Pollution --- Water Resources --- Water Supply --- Water Supply and Sanitation

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The protection of human health and the environment (representing the main reason for waste management), as well as the sustainable use of natural resources, requires chemical, biological, physical and thermal treatment of wastes. This refers to the conditioning (e.g., drying, washing, comminution, rotting, stabilization, neutralization, agglomeration, homogenization), conversion (e.g., incineration, pyrolysis, gasification, dissolution, evaporation), and separation (classification, direct and indirect (i.e., sensor-based) sorting) of all types of wastes to follow the principles of the waste hierarchy (i.e., prevention (not addressed by this issue), preparation for re-use, recycling, other recovery, and disposal). Longstanding challenges include the increase of yield and purity of recyclable fractions and the sustainable removal or destruction of contaminants from the circular economy.This Special Issue on “Advanced Technology of Waste Treatment” of Processes collects high-quality research studies addressing challenges on the broad area of chemical, biological, physical and thermal treatment of wastes.

selective Cu(II) separation --- sustainable waste treatment --- municipal solid waste --- polymer-assisted ultrafiltration --- real fly ash extracts --- urban mining --- pilot installation --- MSWI fly ash --- properties of fly ash --- acid leaching --- heavy metal recovery --- marine litter --- waste treatment --- plastic waste --- pyrolysis --- gasification --- incineration --- thermogravimetric analysis --- biotechnological upcycling --- plastics recycling --- feedstock recycling --- plastic pyrolysis --- lumped modeling --- kinetic modeling --- ReOil --- risk modelling --- portable batteries --- lithium batteries --- fire hazards --- waste management --- lithium-ion-batteries --- pyrometallurgical recycling --- carbothermal reduction --- wood ash treatment --- chromate reduction --- hot alkaline extraction --- recycling --- refractory --- regenerate --- electrodynamic fragmentation --- innovative process --- process optimization --- enhanced landfill mining --- NEW-MINE --- particle size distribution --- compositional data analysis --- simplex --- isometric log-ratios --- multivariate multiple linear regression --- mechanical processing --- commercial waste --- shredder --- chemical recycling --- wet-mechanical processing --- polyolefins --- circular economy --- WEEE --- recovery of aromatics --- oil upgrading --- dehalogenation --- hydrothermal carbonization --- sewage sludge --- phosphorus recovery --- hydrochar --- process-water --- pH --- mixed waste --- municipal waste --- recovery --- contaminants --- plastics --- digitalisation --- smart waste factory --- n/a

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This Special Issue explores the cross-disciplinary approaches, methodologies, and applications of socio-environmental vulnerability assessment that can be incorporated into sustainable management. The volume comprises 20 different points of view, which cover environmental protection and development, urban planning, geography, public policymaking, participation processes, and other cross-disciplinary fields. The articles collected in this volume come from all over the world and present the current state of the world’s environmental and social systems at a local, regional, and national level. New approaches and analytical tools for the assessment of environmental and social systems are studied. The practical implementation of sustainable development as well as progressive environmental and development policymaking are discussed. Finally, the authors deliberate about the perspectives of social–environmental systems in a rapidly changing world.

Research & information: general --- energy from biomass --- pellets --- wood waste --- municipal waste --- noise --- acoustic space --- socio-environmental vulnerability --- Support Vector Machines --- spatial policy --- preventive healthcare --- healthcare facilities --- decision support system --- renewable energy --- solar energy radiation --- sustainable development --- ArcGIS --- Tableau --- inter-municipal cooperation --- cross-sectoral partnerships --- place-based and integrated development --- sustainable management --- integrated planning index --- Poland --- eco-environmental risk assessment --- land use planning --- analytical hierarchy process --- GIS --- mountain region --- Nepal --- political environment --- sustainable tourism --- impact --- world heritage --- Aksu-Jabagly nature reserve --- Kazakhstan --- R --- open-source software --- dataset --- meteorology --- climate --- SYNOP --- geospatial information --- cluster --- sustainable economy --- SDG implementation --- vulnerability and adaptation assessment --- climate change --- ecological restoration --- watershed management --- community-based assessment --- indigenous peoples --- adaptability --- socio-ecological system --- flood risk --- municipality --- Nysa Kłodzka sub-basin --- local development --- municipalities --- nature protection --- national park --- technical infrastructure --- questionnaire survey --- climate analogues --- Factor Analysis on Mixed Data (FAMD) --- clustering --- education --- farm management --- ecological vulnerability --- geospatial analysis --- natural environment --- society --- aging --- environmental hazards --- periodization --- multidimensional statistical analysis --- Ward's method --- green infrastructure --- technogenic soil --- soil water retention --- synanthropic flora --- urban vegetation --- heritage protection --- fortified landscape --- green roofs --- integrated environmental assessment --- quality of runoff water --- performance system --- cycling --- cycling routes --- slow cities --- traffic safety --- sustainable mobility --- urban planning --- water resources --- environmental flow --- hydropower production --- Jiuqu stream --- tourism impact --- impact perception --- stakeholders --- assessment --- indicators --- resource-based economy --- mineral resources --- energy from biomass --- pellets --- wood waste --- municipal waste --- noise --- acoustic space --- socio-environmental vulnerability --- Support Vector Machines --- spatial policy --- preventive healthcare --- healthcare facilities --- decision support system --- renewable energy --- solar energy radiation --- sustainable development --- ArcGIS --- Tableau --- inter-municipal cooperation --- cross-sectoral partnerships --- place-based and integrated development --- sustainable management --- integrated planning index --- Poland --- eco-environmental risk assessment --- land use planning --- analytical hierarchy process --- GIS --- mountain region --- Nepal --- political environment --- sustainable tourism --- impact --- world heritage --- Aksu-Jabagly nature reserve --- Kazakhstan --- R --- open-source software --- dataset --- meteorology --- climate --- SYNOP --- geospatial information --- cluster --- sustainable economy --- SDG implementation --- vulnerability and adaptation assessment --- climate change --- ecological restoration --- watershed management --- community-based assessment --- indigenous peoples --- adaptability --- socio-ecological system --- flood risk --- municipality --- Nysa Kłodzka sub-basin --- local development --- municipalities --- nature protection --- national park --- technical infrastructure --- questionnaire survey --- climate analogues --- Factor Analysis on Mixed Data (FAMD) --- clustering --- education --- farm management --- ecological vulnerability --- geospatial analysis --- natural environment --- society --- aging --- environmental hazards --- periodization --- multidimensional statistical analysis --- Ward's method --- green infrastructure --- technogenic soil --- soil water retention --- synanthropic flora --- urban vegetation --- heritage protection --- fortified landscape --- green roofs --- integrated environmental assessment --- quality of runoff water --- performance system --- cycling --- cycling routes --- slow cities --- traffic safety --- sustainable mobility --- urban planning --- water resources --- environmental flow --- hydropower production --- Jiuqu stream --- tourism impact --- impact perception --- stakeholders --- assessment --- indicators --- resource-based economy --- mineral resources