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Call for papers - Special Issue: Urban Mining
Waste Management 32 (2012) II
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Call for Special Issue Papers
Urban Mining The urban space should be conceived as the physical, or virtual, environment intended for collective use where rights and duties of citizenship, social information and education, political action, productive and economic activities are carried out. Urban Mining represents actions and technologies that can be adopted to recover resources from residues produced by the urban catabolism (municipal, industrial and agricultural waste, both from new production and old deposits) in terms of secondary raw materials and energy. It implicates progression beyond separate collection and the current logic of consumers responsibility, resulting in an increased recovery of resources, better quality of the same, improved environmental protection, involvement of producer responsibility and lower costs for society. With no demagogy or ideological escapes from the fundamental role of treatment and final disposal techniques in closure of the material cycle. In order to match the high interest among the Journal readers the Editorial Board of Waste Management launches a call for paper for a special issue dedicated to ‘‘Urban Mining’’. The issue will include papers and posters submitted to the IWWG Conference SUM 2012 (Symposium on Urban Mining – www.urbanmining.it), which was held in Bergamo, Italy, May 21–23, 2012, together with new submissions. Proposed topics for this call for papers 1. Sources and characterization of materials and energy resources in urban spaces 2. Municipal Solid Waste, commercial waste, industrial waste, WEEE, depuration sludge, municipal and industrial sewage sludge, demolition waste, food waste, waste tyres 3. Automotive Shredded Residues 4. Techniques of waste source separation 5. Criticality of the current system of separate waste collection
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0956-053X(12)00342-X
6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15.
Takeback programs Recovery centres (Ecopoints, Tip shops, Waste banks, etc.) Tecnologies for the extraction of materials and resources Valorization of materials and resources Recirculation pathways and markets Landfill Mining Economic and financial aspects Policies and legal aspects Environmental balances (life-cycle assessment) Case studies
Tentative schedule Contributors for this special issue of WM will be asked to submit their full papers by August 31st, 2012. The Elsevier EES online platform will be used for handling the abstract and subsequently the document review/revision process. Hence, authors are asked to submit their papers via this platform (http://ees.elsevier.com/ wm). Please select Article Type ‘‘Special Issue: Urban Mining’’ when submitting your paper. Please use manuscript guidelines under the ‘‘Instructions to Authors’’ in the Journal of Waste Management or visit: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/wasman and click on ‘‘Guide for Authors’’. Upon receipt of the completed documents, a minimum of three independent reviewers will be selected to provide peer reviews for each document. Upon receipt and acceptance of the author’s revised documents, all will be published in this special issue of WM. The Editor-in-Chief of Waste Management, Professor Raffaello Cossu, will edit the Special Issue together with a Guest Editor, Prof. Dr. Giuseppe Bonifazi, from the Department of Environmental Engineering of the University of Rome ‘‘La Sapienza’’, Rome, Italy ([email protected]). For further information, or to discuss ideas for contributions, please contact directly one of the two Editors.
Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect
Waste Management journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/wasman
Call for Special Issue Papers
Urban Mining The urban space should be conceived as the physical, or virtual, environment intended for collective use where rights and duties of citizenship, social information and education, political action, productive and economic activities are carried out. Urban Mining represents actions and technologies that can be adopted to recover resources from residues produced by the urban catabolism (municipal, industrial and agricultural waste, both from new production and old deposits) in terms of secondary raw materials and energy. It implicates progression beyond separate collection and the current logic of consumers responsibility, resulting in an increased recovery of resources, better quality of the same, improved environmental protection, involvement of producer responsibility and lower costs for society. With no demagogy or ideological escapes from the fundamental role of treatment and final disposal techniques in closure of the material cycle. In order to match the high interest among the Journal readers the Editorial Board of Waste Management launches a call for paper for a special issue dedicated to ‘‘Urban Mining’’. The issue will include papers and posters submitted to the IWWG Conference SUM 2012 (Symposium on Urban Mining – www.urbanmining.it), which was held in Bergamo, Italy, May 21–23, 2012, together with new submissions. Proposed topics for this call for papers 1. Sources and characterization of materials and energy resources in urban spaces 2. Municipal Solid Waste, commercial waste, industrial waste, WEEE, depuration sludge, municipal and industrial sewage sludge, demolition waste, food waste, waste tyres 3. Automotive Shredded Residues 4. Techniques of waste source separation 5. Criticality of the current system of separate waste collection
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0956-053X(12)00342-X
6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15.
Takeback programs Recovery centres (Ecopoints, Tip shops, Waste banks, etc.) Tecnologies for the extraction of materials and resources Valorization of materials and resources Recirculation pathways and markets Landfill Mining Economic and financial aspects Policies and legal aspects Environmental balances (life-cycle assessment) Case studies
Tentative schedule Contributors for this special issue of WM will be asked to submit their full papers by August 31st, 2012. The Elsevier EES online platform will be used for handling the abstract and subsequently the document review/revision process. Hence, authors are asked to submit their papers via this platform (http://ees.elsevier.com/ wm). Please select Article Type ‘‘Special Issue: Urban Mining’’ when submitting your paper. Please use manuscript guidelines under the ‘‘Instructions to Authors’’ in the Journal of Waste Management or visit: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/wasman and click on ‘‘Guide for Authors’’. Upon receipt of the completed documents, a minimum of three independent reviewers will be selected to provide peer reviews for each document. Upon receipt and acceptance of the author’s revised documents, all will be published in this special issue of WM. The Editor-in-Chief of Waste Management, Professor Raffaello Cossu, will edit the Special Issue together with a Guest Editor, Prof. Dr. Giuseppe Bonifazi, from the Department of Environmental Engineering of the University of Rome ‘‘La Sapienza’’, Rome, Italy ([email protected]). For further information, or to discuss ideas for contributions, please contact directly one of the two Editors.