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Ali Chabuk1, Nadhir Al-Ansari2, Hussain Musa Hussain3

  • 1Department of Civil Environmental and Natural Resources Engineering, Lulea University of Technology, Lulea, Sweden.

Waste Management & Research : the Journal of the International Solid Wastes and Public Cleansing Association, ISWA
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