Diesel consumption in waste collection and transport and its environmental significance

Waste Management and Research

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 652-659

  Larsen, Anna W ^a   Vrgoc, Marko ^a   Christensen, Thomas H ^b   Lieberknecht, Poul ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b Århus Miljøcenter ^*  (Denmark)

Author keywords

Collection; Diesel consumption; Emission standards; Trucks

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHODS; COLLECTION; COMBUSTION PRO-CESS; DENMARK; DIESEL CONSUMPTION; DIESEL TRUCK; EMISSION STANDARD; EMISSION STANDARDS; ENVIRONMENTAL BURDENS; ENVIRONMENTAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRANSPORT SIMULATION; WASTE COLLECTION;

AUTOMOBILES; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY CONVERSION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENTS; EXHAUST GASES; INDUSTRIAL WASTE TREATMENT; LEAKAGE (FLUID); STANDARDS; TRUCKS; WASTE INCINERATION;

SOLID WASTES;

DIESEL; EMISSION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; SIMULATION; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WASTE TREATMENT;

AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; AIR QUALITY STANDARD; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENMARK; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; EXHAUST GAS; HOUSING; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT; WASTE DISPOSAL;

AIR POLLUTANTS; CONSERVATION OF ENERGY RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GEOGRAPHY; MOTOR VEHICLES; TRANSPORTATION; VEHICLE EMISSIONS; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

DENMARK; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 70349509921     PISSN: 0734242X     EISSN: 10963669     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0734242X08097636     Document Type: Article

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