Challenges and perspectives of greenhouse gases emissions from municipal solid waste management in Angola

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Autor(a) principal: Maria, Caetano
Data de Publicação: 2020
Outros Autores: Góis, José, Leitão, Anabela
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10316/105935
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egyr.2019.08.074
Resumo: Municipal solid waste (MSW) management contributes substantially to climate change. The greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions from waste collection and landfill activities have a significant contribution. The carbon footprint is an important environmental indicator to express GHG emissions. Nowadays in Luanda, the capital and largest city of Angola, more than 2 million tonnes per year of unselected MSW are sent to landfill. The aim of this work is to evaluate the carbon footprint related to MSW in Luanda. The methodologies used to quantify the carbon footprint were based on the guidelines of the IPCC and the GHG Protocol of greenhouse gases emissions associated with MSW anaerobic decomposition, from the daily operations of the landfill site. The results show that direct landfill emissions are the major contributions to GHG accounting.
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Challenges and perspectives of greenhouse gases emissions from municipal solid waste management in Angola
title Challenges and perspectives of greenhouse gases emissions from municipal solid waste management in Angola
spellingShingle Challenges and perspectives of greenhouse gases emissions from municipal solid waste management in Angola
Maria, Caetano
Carbon footprint
Greenhouse gases
Landfill
Municipal solid waste
title_short Challenges and perspectives of greenhouse gases emissions from municipal solid waste management in Angola
title_full Challenges and perspectives of greenhouse gases emissions from municipal solid waste management in Angola
title_fullStr Challenges and perspectives of greenhouse gases emissions from municipal solid waste management in Angola
title_full_unstemmed Challenges and perspectives of greenhouse gases emissions from municipal solid waste management in Angola
title_sort Challenges and perspectives of greenhouse gases emissions from municipal solid waste management in Angola
author Maria, Caetano
author_facet Maria, Caetano
Góis, José
Leitão, Anabela
author_role author
author2 Góis, José
Leitão, Anabela
author2_role author
author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Maria, Caetano
Góis, José
Leitão, Anabela
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Carbon footprint
Greenhouse gases
Landfill
Municipal solid waste
topic Carbon footprint
Greenhouse gases
Landfill
Municipal solid waste
description Municipal solid waste (MSW) management contributes substantially to climate change. The greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions from waste collection and landfill activities have a significant contribution. The carbon footprint is an important environmental indicator to express GHG emissions. Nowadays in Luanda, the capital and largest city of Angola, more than 2 million tonnes per year of unselected MSW are sent to landfill. The aim of this work is to evaluate the carbon footprint related to MSW in Luanda. The methodologies used to quantify the carbon footprint were based on the guidelines of the IPCC and the GHG Protocol of greenhouse gases emissions associated with MSW anaerobic decomposition, from the daily operations of the landfill site. The results show that direct landfill emissions are the major contributions to GHG accounting.
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