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Application of ED policy for the prevention, reduction, recycling, reuse and safe disposal of industrial solid waste in Bulgaria is illustrated in this paper by taking the example of the manufacture of polyacrylonitrile (PAN) fibres at the BULANA factory which is part of the NEFfOCHIM complex in the town of Bourgas, Bulgaria.
Trends of the total amount of PAN fibres produced by the factory over the last 20 years are investigated, along with those of waste generated, waste composition and waste management. Based on the findings of this investigation, some of the issues bearing on the sustainable management of industrial waste through waste minimisation, elimination ofunrecyclable waste, and recycling by feeding back to the same (or other) processes are discussed.
Also discussed is how the problem of solid waste generated by the BULANA factory was practically solved by replacing the old technology with new and clean technology imported from Italy. It is argued that this factory, with its new and clean technology, should be taken as a paradigm of what can be done, and ought to be done, to address the growing problem of industrial solid waste for achieving at least a degree of sustainable solid waste management.
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Terlemesian, E.I., Stoyanov, S.K. (2000). Treatment Of Solid Waste Generated From The Manufacture Of Polyacrylonitrile Fibres. In: Nath, B. (eds) Sustainable Solid Waste Management in the Southern Black Sea Region. NATO Science Series, vol 75. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0940-9_13
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