A5023493630- Municipal Solid Waste Management
- Recycling and Waste Management Techniques
- Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
- Healthcare and Environmental Waste Management
- Sustainable Supply Chain Management
- Recycled Aggregate Concrete Performance
- Environmental Justice and Health Disparities
- Oil Spill Detection and Mitigation
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
- Occupational Health and Safety Research
University of Leeds
2020-2024
University of Pittsburgh
2023-2024
Cranfield University
2015
A mess of plastic It is not clear what strategies will be most effective in mitigating harm from the global problem pollution. Borrelle et al. and Lau discuss possible solutions their impacts. Both groups found that substantial reductions plastic-waste generation can made coming decades with immediate, concerted, vigorous action, but even best case scenario, huge quantities still accumulate environment. Science , this issue p. 1515 1455
Ongoing negotiations for a 'Legally Binding Instrument on Plastic Pollution' recognise the substantial contribution made by informal recycling sector (IRS - waste pickers) to plastic pollution mitigation as part of just transition. Negotiating parties will require baseline evidence sector's activities inform development local and national actions plans. To this, we carried out review IRS prevalence productivity following Preferred Reporting Items Systematic reviews Meta-Analyses extension...
Despite the relatively benign characteristics of construction and demolition waste, its mismanagement can result in considerable harm to human health for 200 million workers those who live work proximity activities. The high number classified as informal, results a large unregulated vulnerable workforce at risk exposure hazards. We focused systematic scoping review (PRISMA-ScR) on evidence associating waste with hazards risks low- middle-income countries. reviewed more than 3,000...
The global plastics reprocessing sector is likely expand as the circular economy becomes more established and efforts to curb plastic pollution increase. Via a critical systematic scoping review (PRISMA-ScR), we focused on two challenges for occupational public health that will require consideration along with this expansion: (1) Legacy contamination in secondary plastics, addressing risk of materials substances being inherited from previous use carried (circulated or transferred) through...
Abstract A large global workforce of informal entrepreneurs has historically dominated circular economy practices in the Global South, collecting many millions tonnes waste for recycling, and supplementing insufficiencies struggling municipal management systems. Ongoing negotiations a ‘Legally Binding Instrument on Plastic Pollution’ implicitly recognise substantial contribution made by recycling sector (IRS - pickers) to plastic pollution mitigation. To this, we carried out systematic...
<title>Abstract</title> Negotiations for a Global Treaty on plastic pollution<sup>1</sup> will shape policy plastics production, use, and waste management the coming decades. Parties require detailed baseline of flows emission sources at high resolution to enable identification pollution hotspots their causes<sup>2</sup>. Nationally aggregated data can be distributed smaller scale identify generalised points accumulation source phenomena<sup>3-11</sup>. However, it is challenging use this...
Systems to safely store, handle, treat and dispose of medical (healthcare) waste are well developed in the 21st century. Yet, across many parts Global South (low-income middle-income countries) such systems, resources knowhow lacking; extent that could pose a serious threat health, safety lives millions healthcare workers handlers who frequently interact with this category materials. We present here novel scope dimension investigating specifically risks hazards people come into contact...
Abstract Ongoing negotiations for a ‘Legally Binding Instrument on Plastic Pollution’ recognise the substantial contribution made by informal recycling sector (IRS - waste pickers) to plastic pollution mitigation as part of just transition. Negotiating parties will require baseline evidence sector’s activities inform development local and national actions plans. To this, we carried out review IRS prevalence productivity following Preferred Reporting Items Systematic reviews Meta-Analyses...
<title>Abstract</title> The United Nations have agreed to negotiate a legally binding instrument eliminate plastic pollution which includes provisions reduce environmental emissions of through improved waste management. However, there is paucity scientific evidence prioritize the actions will greatest impact on mitigation and many specific emission transmission pathways are highly challenging observe measure. To this, we apply an expert elicitation study provide systematic base parts solid...
Over the coming decades, a large additional mass of plastic waste will become available for recycling, as world’s largest fast moving consumer goods companies step up efforts to reduce pollution and facilitate circular economy. Finding ways recover value from this material is substantial challenge that has prompted exploration novel processes, such ‘chemical recycling’, well more established ones, incineration with energy recovery. Many these take place in Global South, where due...