Journal of Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste: Recent submissions
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Evaluating the Status of Wetland Conservation Integration with Multitype State Action Plans in the 50 US States
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)The protection of wetlands plays a critical role in ecosystem health and human welfare. This research paper explores the role of major types of state action plans, including climate action plans (CAPs), hazard mitigation ... -
Evaluating Microplastic Effects on Performance and Electrochemistry of Microbial Fuel Cells for Wastewater Treatment
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Microplastics (MPs) that are contained in water pose a great threat to the ecological environment, because they have the potential to biomagnify in the food chain, which negatively affects higher trophic level animals that ... -
Enhancing Mechanical Characteristics of Fly Ash and Fly Ash–Stone Dust Using Geopolymerization Technique
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Geopolymer, an inorganic aluminosilicate polymer, is considered a sustainable construction material. However, a notable research gap still persists in minimizing the use of alkali activators and calcium-based additives by ... -
Effectiveness of a Biofertilizer in the Treatment of Carpet Industry Dye Wastewater in an Earthen Pot–Coupled Plant Microbial Fuel Cell
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)The plant microbial fuel cell (PMFC) is a novel technology in which organic matter is converted into electricity using living plants and bacteria in the soil. This study presents a sustainable technology for the treatment ... -
Effect of Different Incubation Periods on <i>Bacillus subtilis</i> and <i>Pseudomonas aeruginosa</i> in a Membraneless Microbial Fuel Cell for Simultaneous Chicken Manure Bioremediation and Electricity Generation
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)The need for energy resources is continuously increasing worldwide and raises the need for environmentally benign, low-cost processes for energy generation. Membraneless microbial fuel cell (ML-MFC) has emerged as a promising ... -
Bioswales and Permeable Pavements as Green Infrastructure for Flood Mitigation in Chicago Neighborhoods
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Urban flooding, increasingly exacerbated by climate change, poses significant risks to communities and infrastructure. This study focuses on mitigating such flooding by implementing green infrastructure (GI), specifically ... -
Biodegradation of Heterogeneous Pollutants in Hybrid MBBR System: Resilience Assessment under Different Shock Stress Conditions
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)The sudden increase in phenol concentrations is frequently observed in coke-oven, petrochemical, and petroleum refinery waste streams due to changes in process parameters, posing challenges for the biological treatment ... -
Biochemical Methane Potential of Microalgae Cultivated in High-Strength Beverage Wastewater: Implications for Energy Enhancement
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)This study aimed to assess the biochemical methane potential (BMP) of microalgal substrates grown on high-strength beverage wastewater as a potential end-use application for biomass. Two microalgal species, Scenedesmus ... -
Zero Liquid Discharge in the Dye Intermediate Industry with the Primary Treatment Method
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)The dye intermediate industry plays a pivotal role in the textile, paper, and chemical sectors, but it is often associated with significant water pollution owing to the release of complex and colored effluents. This paper ... -
Volume Change Behavior of Cement Kiln Dust
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Industrial wastes cause damage to the environment and pose a threat to public health. The utilization of industrial wastes is inevitable if a circular economy needs to be achieved. Cement kiln dust (CKD) is a potential ... -
Attenuation of Aqueous Naphthalene through a Constructed Wetland System Employing Lightweight Expanded Clay Aggregate
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Naphthalene (NAPH), a common polyaromatic hydrocarbon from the petrochemical and pharmaceutical industries, significantly contaminates water bodies due to its resistance to degradation. This study investigated the use of ... -
Valorization of Walnut Shells by Hydrothermal Liquefaction of Its Lignin Extracted Using the Organosolv Method
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Energy consumption reached 604 EJ in 2022 with 82% of it coming from fossil fuels and resulting in 39.3 billion tons of CO2 emission, causing twin sustainability issues of energy security and global warming. This necessitates ... -
UV–H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub>-Based Process for Inactivation of <i>Escherichia coli</i> and <i>Staphylococcus aureus</i> on Inanimate Surfaces: Kinetics Analysis and Relationship between UV Dose and Log Reduction
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Surface disinfection plays an important role in preventing infectious diseases. The present work deals with disinfecting different contaminated material surfaces by the UV–H2O2 process. Almost 3 log count reduction (99.9%) ... -
Utilization of Water Treatment Plant Sludge for Creating Green Bricks and Examining Its Gamma Radiation Shielding Potential
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)This study presents the utilization of water treatment plant sludge (WTPS) as a feasible substitute in brick manufacturing, offering a sustainable solution with significant environmental benefits. The research presents a ... -
Treatment of Railway Laundry Wastewater through a Chain of Physicochemical Processes and an Aerobic Sequential Batch Reactor
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)This paper introduces a comprehensive approach to treating industrial laundry wastewater collected from a railway laundry, employing a novel unique sequential combination of coagulation–flocculation, neutralization, ... -
Toxicological Impacts and Microbial-Mediated Degradation Processes of Microplastics
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Synthetic plastics are essential elements of our daily life; therefore, their accumulation in the environment is a subject of major concern, owing to their nondegradability and detrimental effects on the environment. When ... -
Assessment of the Accumulation and Potential Toxicity of Polystyrene Microplastics in Rats
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)In recent years, there has been a significant amount of research conducted on microplastics (MPs) as emerging pollutants. These particles, which are < 5 mm in size, are the primary cause of environmental and aquatic ... -
Sustainability Assessment of Fly Ash, Lime Sludge, and Ground Granulated Blast Furnace Slag–Based Geopolymer-Stabilized Kaolin Clay
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)The purpose of this study was to evaluate the sustainability benefits of Class F fly ash (FA), lime sludge (LS), and ground granulated blast furnace slag (GGBS)-based geopolymer-stabilized Edgar plastic kaolin (EPK) clay ... -
Silica Fume Slurry Lagoon Closure: Thixotropic Material Characterization and Solidification
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)This paper reports on the evaluation and stabilization/solidification (S/S) of a thixotropic, silica-rich slurry sediment (SS) media from a 14.2-ha (35-acre) unlined lagoon that exhibited flash setting behavior when contacted ... -
Application of Principal Component Analysis for the Elucidation of Chemical Compositions’ Effect in Frass Compost
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Black soldier fly [Hermetia illucens (BSF)] larvae treatment emerges as a promising solution to increasing waste, resource limitations, and the need for sustainable waste management. This insect-based method transforms ...