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The Great Stink of London by Stephen Halliday
RRP: €20.22€15.52'An extraordinary history' PETER ACKROYD, The Times'A lively account of (Bazalgette's) magnificent achievements. . . graphically illustrated' HERMIONE HOBHOUSE'Halliday is good on sanitary engineering and even better on cloaca, crud and putrefaction . . ... -
Handbook of Recycling: State-of-the-art for Practitioners, Analysts, and Scientists by Ernst Worrell 9780123964595
RRP: €130.90€116.19Winner of the International Solid Waste Association's 2014 Publication Award, Handbook of Recycling is an authoritative review of the current state-of-the-art of recycling, reuse and reclamation processes commonly implemented today and how they interact... -
Wasteland: The Dirty Truth About What We Throw Away, Where It Goes, and Why It Matters by Oliver Franklin-Wallis 9781398505452
RRP: €23.80€15.78A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK ONE OF THE NEW YORKER'S BEST BOOKS OF 2023 INCLUDED IN THE GUARDIAN'S BEST IDEAS BOOKS OF 2023 'A gripping read that will anger as much as it fascinates' Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall'An incredible journey into the world of... -
The Compost Toilet Handbook by Joseph C. Jenkins
RRP: €35.69€23.56From the author of The Humanure Handbook, an expert guide to compost toilets you can build yourself The Compost Toilet Handbook is an illustrated instructional manual explaining how to make, use, and manage compost toilets, which are waste-free... -
Crunch Time: How to cook creatively and make a difference to the planet by Oddbox
RRP: €22.60€15.60Eat good, do good, stay odd. Get creative in the kitchen and join the fight against food waste with Oddbox. Ever scanned a recipe, realised you're missing an all-essential ingredient and decided not to bother? Or... -
Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 1, 3rd Edition: Guiding Principles to Welcome Rain Into Your Life and Landscape by Brad Lancaster
RRP: €38.07€25.002020 Independent Press Award Winner--Home & Garden Category Turn water scarcity into water abundance! Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 1, 3rd Edition is the best-selling, award-winning guide on how to conceptualize, design, and... -
Cradle to Cradle: (Patterns of Life) by Michael Braungart
RRP: €11.89€8.46Recycling is good, isn't it? In this visionary book, chemist Michael Braungart and architect William McDonough challenge this status quo and put forward a manifesto for an intriguing and radically different philosophy of environmentalism."Reduce, reuse,... -
The Temporalities of Waste: Out of Sight, Out of Time by Fiona Allon 9780367568573
RRP: €45.21€39.72This book investigates the complex and unpredictable temporalities of waste. Reflecting on waste in the context of sustainability, materiality, social practices, subjectivity and environmental challenges, the book covers a wide range of settings, from... -
The Rubbish Book: A Complete Guide to Recycling by James Piper
RRP: €11.89€8.46Plastic bottles, cardboard boxes, aluminium cans... we all get through a lot of rubbish, but do you really know what happens after you put it in the bin? Are you even sure which bin it goes in?Recycling has never been more important - but it has also... -
DKfindout! Rubbish by DK
RRP: €7.13€5.31Find out how to live more sustainably, manage waste in a better way, and create an eco-home!Rubbish tells us a lot about how humans have lived in the past, how we're living now, and the impact our waste disposal has on the environment. To create a more... -
Unraveled: The Life and Death of a Garment by Maxine Bedat
RRP: €29.74€19.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593085974Author Maxine BedatFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint PortfolioPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
How to Live Plastic Free: a day in the life of a plastic detox by Luca Bonaccorsi
RRP: €13.08€9.25'Read this book, think and then act - it's our only hope.' Chris Packham, MCS Ocean AmbassadorThank you for choosing this book - it shows that you care about the future of our planet. Whether you decide to go plastic free for an hour, a day or a year,... -
The No-Waste Vegetable Cookbook: Recipes and Techniques for Whole Plant Cooking by Linda Ly
RRP: €22.60€15.65Isn't it about time to start nose-to-tail cooking with vegetables? Learn how to make the most of the edibles in your garden or the farmer's market bounty! The No Waste Vegetable Cookbook will help you cook your way through greens, beans, roots, and herbs... -
The Chemical Reaction by Fiona Erskine 9781786079305
RRP: €10.70€7.29As Jaq is pulled further into a murky underworld of deceit and corruption, things take an explosive turn... After escaping almost certain death amidst the ruins of Chernobyl, Jaq finds herself in even hotter water. Deep in debt, she decides to take on... -
Urban Drainage by David Butler
RRP: €65.44€57.98This new edition of a well-established textbook covers the environmental and engineering aspects of the management of rainwater and wastewater in areas of human development. Urban Drainage deals comprehensively not only with the design of new systems,... -
How to Live Plastic Free: a day in the life of a plastic detox by Marine Conservation Society
RRP: €17.84€10.16Thank you for choosing this book - it shows that you care about the future of our planet.Whether you decide to go plastic free for an hour, a day or a year, this book will equip you with little steps we can each take to make a big difference.Let's turn... -
Waste Worlds: Inhabiting Kampala's Infrastructures of Disposability by Jacob Doherty
RRP: €29.75€22.82Uganda's capital, Kampala, is undergoing dramatic urban transformations as its new technocratic government seeks to clean and green the city. Waste Worlds tracks the dynamics of development and disposability unfolding amid struggles over who and what... -
Discard Studies: Wasting, Systems, and Power by Max Liboiron
RRP: €34.51€23.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262543651Author Max LiboironFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
The Waste of the World: Consumption, Economies and the Making of the Global Waste Problem by Nicky Gregson
RRP: €33.31€25.67Despite frequent claims that waste is being reduced, consumer-reliant economies, everyday consumption and the waste industry continue to produce and demand more waste. Combining a lucid style with robust empirical and theoretical research, this book... -
The Thames Tideway Tunnel: Preventing Another Great Stink by Mr Phil Stride 9780750989817
RRP: €23.80€17.50In 1858 the 'Great Stink of London' made much of the city along the Thames uninhabitable. Between 1848 and 1854 nearly 25,000 Londoners died of cholera, a disease borne by foul water. Joseph Bazalgette saved the city, building sewers that would serve 4... -
Global Waste Management: Models for Tackling the International Waste Crisis by Kamila Pope
RRP: €65.44€54.81WINNER: 2020 International Solid Waste Association Publication Award Among other factors, rapid global population growth, our development model and patterns of production and consumption have increased waste generation worldwide to unsustainable... -
Burn: Igniting a New Carbon Drawdown Economy to End the Climate Crisis by Albert Bates
RRP: €17.84€11.66An 800-CEO-READ "Editor's Choice" March 2019 How We Can Harness Carbon to Help Solve the Climate Crisis In order to rescue ourselves from climate catastrophe, we need to radically alter how humans live on Earth. We have to go from spending carbon... -
The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters by Rose George
RRP: €23.80€14.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250058300Author Rose GeorgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 277gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 139mm * 22mm -
Cradle to Cradle: (Patterns of Life) by Michael Braungart 9781784873653
RRP: €13.08€9.25Michael Braungart and William McDonough propose a plan for our planet in this stunning new edition of their radical ecological manifesto. This book proposes a new vision for modern industry. Instead of our current wasteful and polluting methods of... -
What We Leave Behind: A Birdwatcher's Dispatches from the Waste Catastrophe by Stanislaw Lubienski
RRP: €20.22€13.73"Everything looked perfect. Sand - unique Baltic sand, the best in the world - and the calm sea. But wait. Something was amiss. Something was wrong"It starts with a day at the beach. A single white sock that somehow spoils everything. It's enough to send... -
Development in E-waste Management: Sustainability and Circular Economy Aspects by Biswajit Debnath 9781032295077
RRP: €136.85€118.24This book concerns the developments in the field of e-waste management with a particular focus on urban mining, sustainability, and circular economy aspects. It explains e-waste recycling technologies, supply chain aspects, and e-waste disposal in IT... -
What We Leave Behind: A Birdwatcher's Dispatches from the Waste Catastrophe by Stanislaw Lubienski 9781529418866
RRP: €13.08€8.81"Everything looked perfect. Sand - unique Baltic sand, the best in the world - and the calm sea. But wait. Something was amiss. Something was wrong"It starts with a day at the beach. A single white sock that somehow spoils everything. It's enough to send... -
Wastewater Treatment Fundamentals II - Solids Handling and Support Systems Operator Certification Study Questions by Water Environment Federation 9781572784031
RRP: €135.66€110.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781572784031Author Water Environment FederationFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint Water Environment Federation,USPublisher Water Environment... -
Hazardous Gas Monitoring, Fifth Edition: A Guide for Semiconductor and Other Hazardous Occupancies by Logan T. White 9780815514695
RRP: €115.43€102.07Monitoring hazardous gases is highly complex, yet critical to semiconductor manufacturing. This book includes excerpts from codes and standards relevant to the industry, including the latest editions of model fire codes. This guide provides the basics to... -
Hazardous Materials and Waste Management: A Guide for the Professional Hazards Manager by Nicholas P. Cheremisinoff 9780815513728
RRP: €52.35€47.45The management of hazardous materials and industrial wastes is complex, requiring a high degree of knowledge over very broad technical and legal subject areas. Hazardous wastes and materials are diverse, with compositions and properties that not only... -
Vertical Flow Constructed Wetlands: Eco-engineering Systems for Wastewater and Sludge Treatment by Alexandros Stefanakis 9780124046122
RRP: €130.90€115.48Vertical flow constructed wetlands for wastewater and sludge treatment represent a relatively new and still growing technology. Vertical Flow Constructed Wetlands is the first book to present the state-of-the-art knowledge regarding vertical flow... -
Community-Scale Composting Systems: A Comprehensive Practical Guide for Closing the Food System Loop and Solving Our Waste Crisis by Jamie McSweeney
RRP: €59.50€41.91Composting at scales large enough to capture and recycle the organic wastes of a given community, whether a school, neighborhood, or even a small city, is coming of age, propelled by a growing awareness not only of our food waste crisis, but also the... -
Nuclear Decommissioning, Waste Management, and Environmental Site Remediation by Colin Bayliss 9780750677448
RRP: €113.05€100.00Decommissioning nuclear facilities is a relatively new field, which has developed rapidly in the last ten years. It involves materials that may be highly radioactive and therefore require sophisticated methods of containment and remote handling. The... -
Routledge Handbook of Food Waste by Christian Reynolds
RRP: €52.35€45.74This comprehensive handbook represents a definitive state of the current art and science of food waste from multiple perspectives.The issue of food waste has emerged in recent years as a major global problem. Recent research has enabled greater... -
The Last Taboo: Opening the Door on the Global Sanitation Crisis by Maggie Black 9781844075447
RRP: €39.26€34.70Except in schoolboy jokes, the subject of human waste is rarely aired. We talk aboutwater-related diseases when most are sanitation-related - in short, we don't mention the shit. A century and a half ago, a long, hot summer reduced the Thames flowing... -
Advanced Cleaning Product Formulations, Vol. 1 by Ernest W. Flick 9780815511861
€67.06This book presents more than 800 advanced cleaning product formulations for household, industrial, and automotive applications. All formulations are completely different from those in other volumes. If you would like to purchase the entirThis book... -
Ethical Consumption: Practices and Identities: A Realist Approach by Yana Manyukhina
RRP: €47.59€41.72This 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... -
The Culture of Flushing: A Social and Legal History of Sewage by Jamie Benidickson
RRP: €36.89€34.09To most, the flush of a toilet is routine: the way we banish waste and ensure cleanliness. It is safe, efficient, necessary, nonpolitical, and utterly unremarkable. Yet Jamie Benidickson's examination of the social and legal history of sewage in Canada,... -
Waste Recovery and Management: An Approach Toward Sustainable Development Goals by Ajay 9781032281933
RRP: €124.95€108.12Sustainable development approaches cannot be met unless waste management is addressed as a priority. Waste Recovery and Management: An Approach Toward Sustainable Development Goals presents a comprehensive examination of environmental pollution and... -
Water and Wastewater Engineering, Volume 1: Hydraulics, Hydrology and Management by Lawrence K. Wang 9781394179107
€121.38Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.