• Environmental Engineering Research
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.14-27
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• 2006

The proper management of discarded electronic devices (often called electronic-waste) is an emerging issue for solid waste professionals throughout the world because of the large growth of the waste stream, and the content of toxic metals in them, most notably heavy metals such as lead. Notebook computers are becoming one of the major components of discarded computer devices and will continue to increase in the waste stream in the future. While the computers hold great promise for recycling, a substantial amount of this waste is often disposed in municipal solid waste (MSW) landfills. The toxicity characteristic leaching procedure (TCLP) is commonly used to simulate worse case leaching conditions where a potentially hazardous waste is assumed to be disposed along with municipal solid waste in a landfill with actively decomposing materials overlying an aquifer. The objective of this study was to examine leaching potential of lead from discarded notebook computers using the scale-up TCLP, other standard leaching tests such as California waste extraction test (Cal WET), and the synthetic precipitation leaching procedure (SPLP) and actual landfill leachates as leaching solution. The scale-up TCLP is a modified TCLP (where the device was disassembled and leached in or near entirety) to meet the intent of the TCLP. The results showed that the scale-up TCLP resulted in relatively high lead found in the leachate with an average of 23.3 mg/L. The average level was less than those by the standard TCLP and WET (37.0 mg/L and 86.0 mg/L, respectively), but much greater than those by the SPLP and the extractions with the landfill leachates (0.55 mg/L and 1.47 mg/L, respectively). The pH of the leaching solution and the ability of the organic acids in the TCLP and WET to complex with the lead were identified as major factors that controlled the amount of lead leached from notebook computers. Based on the results obtained by a number of leaching tests in this study, notebook computers may present a potential leaching risk to the environment and human health upon land disposal. However, further investigation is still needed to assess the true risk posed by the land disposal of discarded notebook computers.

• 한국지역지리학회지
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• 제11권6호
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• pp.559-570
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• 2005

본 연구는 부산시를 사례로 하여 인구변화가 쓰레기배출량에 미치는 영향을 파악하는데 목적이 있다. 연구결과는 다음과 같이 요약된다. 첫째, 부산시는 1995년 이후 인구수와 쓰레기배출량이 전반적으로 감소하는 경향을 보였다. 구별로 인구수와 쓰레기배출량의 증가와 감소에 따라 5개 유형으로 구분되었으며, 1995년과 2003년의 구별 인구수와 쓰레기배출량의 상대적 평가를 위한 Z값을 분석한 결과, 1995년은 5개 유형으로, 2003년 6개 유형으로 구분되었다. 둘째, 쓰레기배출량과 인구수, 용도지역(주거지역, 상업지역, 공업지역)별 면적 및 광공업생산액 간의 상관관계를 각각 파악한 결과, 인구수, 주거지역 면적의 순으로 매우 강한 정적 상관관계가 있는 것으로 나타났다. 또한, 인구수와 주거지역 면적간에 공선성이 존재하여 인구수가 쓰레기배출량 해석을 위한 중요한 요인임은 물론 주거지역 면적의 특성까지 포함하여 설명할 수 있다. 셋째, 인구수가 쓰레기배출량에 미치는 영향 정도를 분석한 결과, 인구수는 쓰레기배출량을 92%이상 예측할 수 있는 것으로 나타났다.

• 대한환경공학회지
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• 제38권5호
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• pp.219-227
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• 2016

음식물쓰레기의 최대 배출원인 주택에서 생성되는 음식물쓰레기의 성상은 양호하여 재활용 가치가 크지만, 기존의 음식물쓰레기 관리방식으로는 한계가 있어 개선안이 요구되고 있다. 본 연구는 수도권과 비수도권 소재 공동주택단지의 음식물쓰레기 관리 실태를 조사하고, 발효 소멸기술을 이용한 음식물쓰레기 무배출 시스템 보급에 대한 지자체 태도를 파악하고자 한다. 전국 지자체 공무원을 대상으로 실시한 설문조사를 통해 수집한 자료는 통계분석을 하였고, 그 주요 결과를 요약하면 다음과 같다. 공동주택단지에서 배출되는 음식물쓰레기는 차량수거를 통해 퇴비나 사료로 재활용되고 있었다. 상당수의 지자체들은 음식물쓰레기 무배출 시스템에 관심이 있으나, 지자체의 예산 부족은 그 보급에 걸림돌이 되었다. 또한, 음식물쓰레기 무배출 시스템을 실용화하기 위해서는 비용절감효과, 에너지로의 자원화, 설치 후 유지운영 관리의 용이성 등이 뒷받침되어야 할 것으로 나타났다.

• 토지주택연구
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.135-144
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• 2023

현재 LH공사에서 활용하고 있는 건설폐기물 처리대가 기준은 오래전에 개발된 표준 모델을 활용하여 대가를 산정하고 있다. 따라서 본 모델은 폐기물 처리시설의 기술발전과 환경상황을 잘 반영하지 못하는 문제점을 갖고 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 이러한 문제점을 개선하기 위해 건설폐기물 중간처리 대가기준에 대한 분석을 실시하였다. 공공발주기관과 LH에서 활용하고 있는 원가계산방식의 현황과 차이점을 분석하였다. 또한 폐기물 중간처리업체의 운영실태에 대한 현장조사 및 전문가 인터뷰 등을 실시하여 현재 활용되고 있는 표준모델에 대한 개선모델을 제시하였다. 건설폐기물의 중간처리를 위한 주요 공정은 건설폐기물의 파쇄기 투입, 파쇄, 선별 및 분별, 이송으로 이루어져 있다. 본 모델에 맞추어 공정운영에 필요한 소요인력과 비용을 분석하여 발주를 위한 적산 기준을 제안하였다. 이 개선된 표준모델은 공공기관의 폐기물 중간처리를 위한 원가계산 기준으로 활용될 수 있으며, 폐기물처리비의 증액이 필요한 것으로 판단하였다.

• 영미문화
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.1-25
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• 2009

This paper attempts to illuminate the significance of the myth or mythical method used in The Waste Land, which Eliot adapted from Jessie L. Weston's From Rituals to Romance and Sir James Frazer's Golden Bough. While he was composing a modern epic, James Joyce's Ulysses and Igor Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps made him sure that the mythical method would be the best way to make the non-relational and chaotic modern world into a work of art. Although he accepted F. H. Bradley's epistemology that one's actual experience is non-relational, he strongly put an emphasis on 'the unified sensibility' in John Donne's poetry with which a poet changes all the dissociated material into art. He also found another effective method to give the chaotic experiences an order, and to make them modern art: the mythical method in his contemporary anthropology. With the mythical method he incorporated the various barren, horrible and ugly aspects of modern world into a new unity in The Waste Land. In addition, he embraced his contemporary anthropological theory that a primitive life described in myths is a culture just different from modern culture, and heartily employed some aspects of primitive culture to make modern poetry as well as modern culture rich and exuberant.

• 한국분말재료학회지
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.27-31
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• 2015

Flat panel display devices are mainly used as information display devices in the 21st century. The worldwide waste flat panel displays are expected at 2-3 million units but most of them are land-filled for want of a proper recycling technology More specifically, rare earth metals of La and Eu are used as fluorescent materials of Cold Cathode Flourscent Lamp(CCFL)s in the waste flat panel displays and they are critically vulnerable and irreplaceable strategic mineral resources. At present, most of the waste CCFLs are disposed of by land-filling and incineration and proper recovery of 80-plus tons per annum of the rare earth fluorescent materials will significantly contribute to steady supply of them. A dearth of Korean domestic research results on recovery and recycling of rare earth elements in the CCFLs prompts to initiate this status report on overseas research trends and noteworthy research results in related fields.

• 농촌계획
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.1-7
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• 1998

This research is concerned with a comparative cognition of environmental issues in the countryside between socio-cultural groups. Environmental issues have been con연nod to litter, soil, sewage, wild life, noise, landscape, air, housing development, waste land and pesticides. Socio-cultural groups consisted of urban and countryside people who live in Korea and UK. The method of this study depended upon a standard questionnaire with a semantic scale. The cognition of Korean and British people are significantly different in every respect(p =.0001)except air issues. There is a significant similarity between Korean groups in 10 environmental issues(p > .03). Both Korean groups have generally recognized that their countryside environment has faced serious problems to be solved while British groups have not recognized serious problems in their countryside compared to the Korean groups. To both Korean and British groups the most worrying amongst the 10 environmental issues is the litter problem. In particular, there is a significant difference between British groups in soils(p = .0001), wildlife(p = .0009), air(p = .0001) and waste land(p = .0027). The existing policies (or countryside environment in Korea should be completely reconsidered and in Britain policies towards soils, wild life, air and waste land need to be reviewed. From the results it can be seen that cognition to countryside environment undergoes more cultural influences rather than social ones.

• 한국폐기물자원순환학회지
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• 제35권7호
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• pp.627-639
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• 2018

Waste management in Jeju Province, Korea, has recently emerged as an urgent problem. The increasing waste discharge requires more landfills but, since it is an island, the available land is restricted. Accordingly, an efficient waste management urgently requires environmentally sustainable policies. In this article, the waste discharge characteristics (such as the amount of waste, its composition, etc.) of Jeju Province have been compared with those in the rest of Korea. The current industrial waste management of two cities on the Island, Jeju City and Seogwipo City, has been also analyzed to suggest policies for an efficient management. The local government's endeavor to enhance environmental awareness of the community has been known to reduce the private cost of policy compliance, and have individuals recognize the results of their policy compliance. Policies to achieve the above are then proposed.

• Advances in environmental research
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.97-107
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• 2020

The indiscriminate growth in global population poses a threat to the world in handling and disposal of Municipal solid waste. Rapid urban growth increases the production, consumption and generation of Municipal solid waste which leads to a drastic change in the environment. The methane produced from the Municipal Solid waste accounts for up to 11% global anthropogenic emissions, which is a major cause for global warming. This study reports the methane emission estimation using IPCC default, TNO, LandGEM, EPER and close flux chamber from open dump yards at Perungudi and Kodungaiyur in Chennai, India. The result reveals that the methane emission using close flux chamber was in the range of 8.8 Gg/yr-11.3 Gg/yr and 6.1Gg/yr to 9.1 Gg/yr at Kodungaiyur and Perungudi dump yard respectively. The per capita waste generation was estimated based on waste generation and population. The waste generation potential was projected using linear regression model for the period 2017-2050. The trend of CH₄ emission in the actual field measurement were increased every year, similarly the emission trend also increased in IPCC default method (mass balance approach), EPER Germany (zero order decay model) where as TNO and Land GEM (first order decay model) were decreased. The present study reveals that Kodungaiyur dump yard is more vulnerable to methane emission compared to Perungudi dump yard and has more potential in waste to energy conversion mechanisms than compare to Perungudi dump yard.

• 유기물자원화
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.83-89
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• 2000

There is no simple method to solve livestock waste problems satisfactorily. For a successful solution, various methods should be well organized orderly depending upon the situation. Even in the livestock waste management, integrated waste management principle should be applied. Minimization of livestock waste generation is the first priority. It is also important to distribute fairly livestock farms throughout the nation. Efficient management of permit system is equally important. Permit should be given only when the farmer have enough grass-land on which the farmer can apply more than two thirds of livestock waste generated or when the farm have an anaerobic digestor in which store livestock waste generated for at least 3 months. In principle, livestock waste should be treated in the farm and it is desirable to operate composting facilities in the farm site too.