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Waste management is an important element of environmental protection in each country. Vegetable and fruit waste are produced in every place in the world, hence it is necessity to manage it. Legal regulations in Poland forbid the storage of this waste which were selectively collected. Therefore, it is necessary to looking for other methods of their management. Agricultural biogas plants are an important source of renewable energy. In last years, in Europe, the most important substrate used for biogas production was...

Impact of the municipal solid wastes (MSW) landfills on the environment is caused by issue of a filtrate and biogas and also atmospheric transfer of material of waste from a surface. As a result an underground water and surface water, soils, unsaturated zone deposits, atmospheric air are exposed to intensive pollution. The most active and aggressive agent of transformation of components of the environment near landfills of solid municipal waste is the filtrate which impact, first of all, on underground waters. The...

Municipal waste sludge belongs to a specific type of wastes formed in a process of mechanical, biological and chemical treatment of wastes. The sewage sludge, due to its variable content, constitutes a big problem with respect to optimum and safe sludge management. There is no single correct way to treat sewerage sludge. One needs to remember that the selection of the management method of the formed sludge is individual and depends to a large extends on the size of particular waste treatment plant. A subject of te...