Study on Carbon Emissions from Municipal Solid Waste in Shenzhen

DOI

10.2991/isesce-15.2015.46How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Municipal solid waste (MSW), Landfill, Incineration, Composting, Carbon emission

Abstract

There are generating many municipal solid wastes in the rapid development of urbanization. Municipal solid wastes treatment could generate lots of carbon emissions, which accounted for an important share in total carbon emissions. Therefore, it is crucial to compare emissions from different ways of municipal solid wastes treatment and find the most effective one. This paper calculates municipal solid wastes treatment through landfill, incineration, and composting from 2000 to 2010 in Shenzhen city. The results demonstrate landfill produce more carbon emissions than composting and incineration. So, we should popularize composting, garbage classification and promoting power generation during the process of waste incineration in order to reduce carbon emission during refuse disposal.

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© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Junfeng Zhang
AU  - Hong Fang
AU  - Bofei Ma
AU  - Huaimo You
PY  - 2015/12
DA  - 2015/12
TI  - Study on Carbon Emissions from Municipal Solid Waste in Shenzhen
BT  - Proceedings of the 2015 International Symposium on Energy Science and Chemical Engineering
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 232
EP  - 235
SN  - 2352-5401
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/isesce-15.2015.46
DO  - 10.2991/isesce-15.2015.46
ID  - Zhang2015/12
ER  -