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Evaluating The Air Emissions From Solid Waste Refuse Trucks, Lauren D. Hauser
Evaluating The Air Emissions From Solid Waste Refuse Trucks, Lauren D. Hauser
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
The air emissions from solid waste refuse trucks is an issue that has not been widely studied, but is becoming an ever increasing issue. In the United States alone they have generated around 251 million tons of waste in 2012. This study in particular will collect data on 24 different refuse trucks (front-load, side-load, and roll-off, and diesel and compressed natural gas fuel) while on real-life routes in the Raleigh, North Carolina area. The collected data will then be aggregated and summarized based on the type of trucks. A regression analysis will also be done to determine the relationship between …