Dealing with emerging waste streams: Used tyre assessment in Thailand using material flow analysis

Waste Management and Research

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 918-926

  Jacob, Paul ^a   Kashyap, Prakriti ^a   Suparat, Tasawan ^a   Visvanathan, Chettiyappan ^a  

^a ASIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

destructive technologies; emerging waste streams; Material flow analysis; recycling; Thailand; urbanisation; waste tyre

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; LAND FILL; RECYCLING; RUBBER APPLICATIONS; SOLID WASTES;

MATERIAL FLOW ANALYSIS; THAILAND; URBANISATION; WASTE STREAM; WASTE TYRES;

TIRES;

RUBBER;

AUTOMOBILE; DEVELOPING WORLD; LANDFILL; MATERIAL FLOW ANALYSIS; POLICY DEVELOPMENT; RECYCLING; TIRE; URBANIZATION; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FLOW MEASUREMENT; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; LANDFILL; MATERIAL FLOW ANALYSIS; RECYCLING; TECHNOLOGY; THAILAND; WASTE; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WASTE TYRE; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; WASTE DISPOSAL;

THAILAND;

RECYCLING; REFUSE DISPOSAL; RUBBER; THAILAND;

EID: 84907208685     PISSN: 0734242X     EISSN: 10963669     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0734242X14543554     Document Type: Article

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