Waste Management and the Environment: VII
Published on 12. May 2014
Book
Hardback
524 pages
978-1-84564-760-5 (ISBN)
Description
The proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Waste Management and the Environment follows on from the success of previous meetings held in Cadiz (2002), Rhodes (2004), Malta (2006), Granada (2008), Tallin (2010) and the New Forest (2012). There is growing awareness of the detrimental effects of current waste disposal and a movement towards greater accountability for effective waste management. Better practices and safer solutions are required. This creates a need for more research on current disposal methods such as landfills, incineration, chemical and effluent treatment as well as recycling, waste incineration, clean technologies, waste monitoring, public and corporate awareness, and general education. Waste Management is one of the key problems of modern society due to the ever expanding volume and complexity of discarded domestic and industrial waste. Unfortunately many of the policies adopted in the past were aimed at short term solutions without due regard to the long term implications on health and the environment, leading in many cases to the need to take difficult and expensive remedial action.The desired direction of waste management is towards sustainable strategies.
The approach which has emerged as the most sustainable strategy has been called 3Rs, where reduction, reuse and recycling, in this order, are seen as the best actions. Recently recovery is added as the fourth action (4Rs) applied in order to; for example, recover energy from waste that cannot be classified under the 3Rs. This largely decreases the volume of the waste that needs final disposal. Further steps are required towards improvement of current technologies, increased collaboration between the public, government and private sectors and increased involvement of all stakeholders. Topics covered include: Industrial Waste Management; Waste Management; Direct and Indirect Pre-treatment of MSW; Waste Water; Remote Sensing; Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and Recovery (4Rs); Environmental Impact; Environmental Remediation; Disposal of High-level Radioactive Waste in a New Perspective; Agricultural Waste; Energy from Waste.
The approach which has emerged as the most sustainable strategy has been called 3Rs, where reduction, reuse and recycling, in this order, are seen as the best actions. Recently recovery is added as the fourth action (4Rs) applied in order to; for example, recover energy from waste that cannot be classified under the 3Rs. This largely decreases the volume of the waste that needs final disposal. Further steps are required towards improvement of current technologies, increased collaboration between the public, government and private sectors and increased involvement of all stakeholders. Topics covered include: Industrial Waste Management; Waste Management; Direct and Indirect Pre-treatment of MSW; Waste Water; Remote Sensing; Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and Recovery (4Rs); Environmental Impact; Environmental Remediation; Disposal of High-level Radioactive Waste in a New Perspective; Agricultural Waste; Energy from Waste.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Southampton
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-84564-760-5 (9781845647605)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Content
Contents Section 1: Industrial waste management The recent trend of e-waste recycling and rare metal recovery in Japan; The recovery of valuable metals and recycling of alumina from a waste spent hydroprocessing catalyst: extraction with Na salts; The production of high purity alumina from solid wastes obtained from aluminium factories; Reverse logistics: a route that only makes sense when adopting a systemic vision; Ship waste management along the Danube: the way towards an International Danube Ship Waste Convention; Full scale vermicomposting and land utilisation of pulpmill solids in combination with municipal biosolids (sewage sludge); The pyrolysis and gasification of high-density polyethylene in a batch reactor Section 2: Waste management Degradable plastics and their potential for affecting solid waste systems; The physical and chemical properties of solid waste from water tourism. Case study: Taling Chan Floating Market, Bangkok, Thailand; Investigating household recycling behaviour through the interactions between personal and situational factors; Assessing the physical planning and management of waste in the O.R. Tambo District Municipality: implications for management; Commitment, attitude and behavioural changes of the community towards a waste segregation program: a case study of Malaysia Section 3: Direct and indirect pre-treatment of MSW (Special session organised by E. C. Rada) The mass and energy balance of an integrated solution for municipal solid waste treatment; Proposal for the correct management of the Life Cycle Assessment results from integrated municipal solid waste treatment; Environmental assessment of waste transport and treatment: a case study; Municipal solid waste selective collection and tourism Section 4: Waste water Wastewater sewage sludge: the thermal treatment solution; The modelling of an anoxic-aerobic biological reactor Section 5: Remote sensing GIS and infrared aerial view: advanced tools for the early detection of environmental violations; Assessment of airborne and spaceborne thermal infrared remote sensing for detecting and characterizing landfills Section 6: Reduce, reuse, recycle and recovery (4Rs) The use of membrane technology for the formulation of spent anaerobic digester effluents as a nutrient source for bacterial growth; Developing a theoretical behavioural framework and identifying its association with UK industry evidence on waste re-use; Industrial aluminum hazardous waste as a new raw material for zeolite synthesis; The characterization and composting of the municipal solid waste of Riyadh city, Saudi Arabia; An effective solid waste management system in Awka, Anambra State, Nigeria: a proffered solution of a well-articulated plan of attributes Section 7: Environmental impact The environmental impact of a municipal solid waste incinerator: 15 years of monitoring; An assessment of groundwater contamination around a solid waste disposal site in Kano, Nigeria Section 8: Environmental remediation Adsorption for environmental remediation: the use of activated carbon as a by-product from a biomass gasification plant compared with commercial activated carbon; Bioremediation of contaminated marine sediments: examples of successful applications; The development of physico-chemico enhanced washing for fine-grained soil Section 9: Disposal of high-level radioactive waste in a new perspective (Special session organised by R. Pusch) The long-term effects of nuclear accidents; The environmental implications of depleted uranium in Iraq and the principles of isolating it; VDH - a case of ostrich philosophy or a serious alternative for the disposal of highly radioactive waste?; The predicted and actual wetting rate of the buffer in repositories for high-level radioactive waste; The assessment of clay buffers for isolating highly radioactive waste Section 10: Agricultural waste The on-line measurement of greenhouse gases emitted by a reactor for nitrogen removal from digested zootechnical slurry; The manufacture and properties of oil palm and pineapple leaf fiberboard panels Section 11: Energy from waste The hydrothermal decomposition of biomass and waste to produce bio-oil; Biodiesel production from used frying oil and microalgae: a preliminary study; Effluent recycling of a multiphase anaerobic baffled reactor treating food waste; Energy products from source-separated organic waste; Environmental and economic analysis of the Turin incineration plant; The wonders of waste processing by termites