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Consequences of Open burning of Solid Waste.

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The article highlights the amount, concentration and risk of exposure to Pollutants that are being released in the environment due to open burning of MSW. Also, the work highlights the energy generation by the MSW by techniques like Plasma Arc Gasification (PAG) and Biomethanation.

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This article will enable the policy makers in a developing country like India to think about other approaches apart from dumping and open burning of Municipal solid waste.

Mr Ankur Khare
CSIR-NEERI, Nagpur

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This page is a summary of: Emission from open burning of municipal solid waste in India, Environmental Technology, July 2017, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/09593330.2017.1351489.
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