Waste Management

This book reviews that the environmental pollution caused by anthropogenic impacts that represents a big challenges facing contemporary science and technology. As a result of the civilisation-technogenic activities, a large amount of toxins of both...

Hazardous waste is a waste with properties that make it dangerous or potentially harmful to human health or the environment. Hazardous waste generally exhibits one or more of these characteristics: ignitability, corrosivity, reactivity or toxicity. The...

Covers technological mitigation of plastics and microplastic wastes along with their remediation in a technical way Discusses advances in plastic/micro/nano plastic pollution and possible pathways of pollution Demonstrates mitigation measures to minimize...

Solid Waste Recycling and Processing, Second Edition, provides best-practice guidance to solid waste managers and recycling coordinators. The book covers all aspects of solid waste processing, volume reduction, and recycling, encompassing typical...

How to Select Haz. Waste TreatmentBook InformationISBN 9780815512134Author Gerard MeurantFormat HardbackPage Count 162Imprint William Andrew PublishingPublisher William Andrew PublishingWeight(grams) 460g

Accidental Releases Of Air ToxicsBook InformationISBN 9780815512103Author Daniel S. DavisFormat HardbackPage Count 672Imprint William Andrew PublishingPublisher William Andrew PublishingWeight(grams) 1620g

It will appeal to academics, students, and stakeholders in publicpolicy or environmental studies who want to think critically and morebroadly about how we approach energy generation and waste management.Book InformationISBN 9780774817080Author Darrin...

Handbook of Solid Waste Management and Waste Minimization Technologies is an essential tool for plant managers, process engineers, environmental consultants, and site remediation specialists that focuses on practices for handling a broad range of...

Liquid Membranes: Principles and Applications in Chemical Separations and Wastewater Treatment discusses the principles and applications of the liquid membrane (LM) separation processes in organic and inorganic chemistry, analytical chemistry,...

Deep Geological Disposal of Radioactive Waste presents a critical review of designing, siting, constructing and demonstrating the safety and environmental impact of deep repositories for radioactive wastes. It is structured to provide a broad perspective...

Pollution Control and Resource Recovery: Sewage Sludge discusses several traditional and new environmentally friendly technologies for sewage sludge treatment and disposal. In addition, the book covers a range of new initiatives that are underway to...

Solid and Hazardous Waste Management: Science and Engineering presents the latest on the rapid increase in volume and types of solid and hazardous wastes that have resulted from economic growth, urbanization, and industrialization and how they have...

Environmental Materials and Waste: Resource Recovery and Pollution Prevention contains the latest information on environmental sustainability as a wide variety of natural resources are increasingly being exploited to meet the demands of a worldwide...

Agro-industrial Wastes as Feedstock for Enzyme Production: Apply and Exploit the Emerging and Valuable Use Options of Waste Biomass explores the current state-of-the-art bioprocesses in enzyme production using agro-industrial wastes with respect to their...

Residues containing Cr (VI) are classified as toxic and hazardous residues by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Cr (VI) could easily leach into the environment due to rain water passing through the Cr (VI), containing residues which could...

Electrochemical water treatment is a simple method to generate disinfecting agents. Several companies offer special cell technologies for water disinfection. It has been found that besides active chlorine for disinfection, by-products such as chlorate...

This book offers a detailed overview of low cost adsorbents for Cd(II) removal from wastewater, namely agricultural and industrial wastes, activated carbon from agricultural wastes and biosorbents. A study of the susceptibility of...

As the lack of fossil fuel is increasing, sludge management is not only to satisfy the disposal criteria but also to obtain energy and resources. For better sewage sludge disposal and more efficient energy reclamation, a series of analysis and...

Wastewater Treatment: Processes, Uses and Importance begins by providing information about wastewater treatment and its various application, especially in agriculture sectors. Some information about wastewater use and regulation in Saudi Arabia is also...

Each year, consumers purchase millions of electronic devices, such as televisions, computers, and cell phones, and are faced with what to do with their used electronics. Recycling can recover a variety of materials, including precious metals, and many...

Currently, the management of solid waste represents a major economic and environmental issue throughout the world. Trends in waste generation show an increase in the volumes of waste produced in most countries and it is clear that the trend will continue...

Wastewater treatment plants usually generate millions of tons of sewage sludge every year. Sewage sludge results from the accumulation of solids from chemical coagulation, flocculation and sedimentation during wastewater treatment. Worldwide, sludge...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781978833395Author Jordan P. HowellFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Rutgers University PressPublisher Rutgers University Press

Cost-Effective Technologies for Solid Waste and Wastewater Treatment synthesizes methods, case studies, and analyses of various state-of-the-art techniques for removing contaminants from wastewater, solid waste, or sewage and converting or reusing the...

Waste Management and Resource Recycling in the Developing World provides a unique perspective on the state of waste management and resource recycling in the developing world, offering practical solutions based on innovative tools and technologies as well...

Humans generate millions of tons of waste every day. This waste is rich in water, nutrients, energy and organic compounds. Yet waste is not being managed in a way that permits us to derive value from its reuse, whilst millions of farmers struggle with...

Following an active science-meets-industry approach on dealing with biomass and organics waste streams, this timely book foregrounds key issues facing South African policy makers, industry practitioners and scholars. The editors drew together a wide pool...

Following an active science-meets-industry approach on dealing with biomass and organics waste streams, this timely book foregrounds key issues facing South African policy makers, industry practitioners and scholars. The editors drew together a wide pool...

Electronic waste, which includes everything from refrigerators to smartphones, is one of the world's fastest growing waste streams. Often these items are simply discarded as new technology becomes available. A huge amount of electronic waste is generated...

• A hot topic given recent media coverage around the dumping of raw sewage into UK rivers and the sea • Scrutinises the UK water companies and the governance policy of the UK sewage and water systemsBook InformationISBN 9781032451572Author Stephen...

• A hot topic given recent media coverage around the dumping of raw sewage into UK rivers and the sea • Scrutinises the UK water companies and the governance policy of the UK sewage and water systemsBook InformationISBN 9781032446196Author Stephen...

This book engages with the topic of ethical consumption and applies a critical-realist approach to explore the process of becoming and being an ethical consumer. By integrating Margaret Archer's theory of identity formation and Christian Coff's work on...

Previously perceived as a local, technical issue for governments, waste management is now also a global, socio-political process involving complex patterns of multi-level governance. Yet these geographical complexities have not previously been considered...

A side-effect of numerous anthropogenic activities involves unfavourable changes in the natural environment. The acquisition of natural resources, especially fossil fuels, solid waste and wastewater production, as well as emission of gases and...

Converting sludge into construction materials is deemed to be a sustainable approach to alleviating sludge disposal problems and conserving natural resources.This compendium presents the state-of-the-art development in recycling sludge into construction...

The safe management of radioactive wastes is of paramount importance in gaining both governmental and societal support for nuclear energy. The scope of this new textbook is to provide a comprehensive perspective on all types of radioactive wastes as to...

Provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art coverage of waste management practices, their challenges and solutions, from a global perspective. Discusses conceptual principles and practices of various green technologies that can be used to generate...

Covers a wide range of advanced and emerging treatment technologies such as photocatalysis processing, adsorptive membranes, and nanoparticles for anaerobic digestion of solid wastes. Addresses issues associated with wastes in different phases. Discusses...

This book provides state of the art description of various approaches, techniques and some basic fundamentals of bioremediation to manage a variety of organic and inorganic wastes and pollutants present in our environment. A comprehensive overview of...

Focusses on case studies of steel industry generated wastewater treatment Discusses different unit operations of steel industry along with the wastewater generation Provide insights for the remediation of toxic industrial wastewater by different advanced...