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Clean environment index: A new approach for litter assessment
Littered waste is one of the ubiquitous problems in urban environments. In this study, urban environmental pollution was evaluated for the first time using a new developed index. The findings indicated that cigarette butts with an average 58% are the largest share in the composition of littered wast...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9925890/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35959868 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0734242X221117093 |
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author | Farzadkia, Mahdi Alinejad, Navid Ghasemi, Afsaneh Rezaei Kalantary, Roshanak Esrafili, Ali Torkashvand, Javad |
author_facet | Farzadkia, Mahdi Alinejad, Navid Ghasemi, Afsaneh Rezaei Kalantary, Roshanak Esrafili, Ali Torkashvand, Javad |
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description | Littered waste is one of the ubiquitous problems in urban environments. In this study, urban environmental pollution was evaluated for the first time using a new developed index. The findings indicated that cigarette butts with an average 58% are the largest share in the composition of littered waste. In addition, the numbers of littered wastes throughout the study area had a spatial variation. According to clean environment index (CEI), the entire study area was found to be in a moderate status. However, 40% of the study areas were classified in a dirty and extremely dirty status. Comparison of the studied urban land-uses showed that residential land use with CEI equal to 3.38 is interpreted in the clean status, while commercial land use with CEI equal to 15.05 can be classified in the dirty status. The application of CEI has a good capability to assess littered waste; this index can be employed to evaluate the pollution of urban sidewalks and other environments such as beaches. |
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spelling | pubmed-99258902023-02-15 Clean environment index: A new approach for litter assessment Farzadkia, Mahdi Alinejad, Navid Ghasemi, Afsaneh Rezaei Kalantary, Roshanak Esrafili, Ali Torkashvand, Javad Waste Manag Res Original Articles Littered waste is one of the ubiquitous problems in urban environments. In this study, urban environmental pollution was evaluated for the first time using a new developed index. The findings indicated that cigarette butts with an average 58% are the largest share in the composition of littered waste. In addition, the numbers of littered wastes throughout the study area had a spatial variation. According to clean environment index (CEI), the entire study area was found to be in a moderate status. However, 40% of the study areas were classified in a dirty and extremely dirty status. Comparison of the studied urban land-uses showed that residential land use with CEI equal to 3.38 is interpreted in the clean status, while commercial land use with CEI equal to 15.05 can be classified in the dirty status. The application of CEI has a good capability to assess littered waste; this index can be employed to evaluate the pollution of urban sidewalks and other environments such as beaches. SAGE Publications 2022-08-12 2023-02 /pmc/articles/PMC9925890/ /pubmed/35959868 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0734242X221117093 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | Original Articles Farzadkia, Mahdi Alinejad, Navid Ghasemi, Afsaneh Rezaei Kalantary, Roshanak Esrafili, Ali Torkashvand, Javad Clean environment index: A new approach for litter assessment |
title | Clean environment index: A new approach for litter
assessment |
title_full | Clean environment index: A new approach for litter
assessment |
title_fullStr | Clean environment index: A new approach for litter
assessment |
title_full_unstemmed | Clean environment index: A new approach for litter
assessment |
title_short | Clean environment index: A new approach for litter
assessment |
title_sort | clean environment index: a new approach for litter
assessment |
topic | Original Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9925890/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35959868 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0734242X221117093 |
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