Waste
A Handbook for Management
2nd Edition
Published on 5. March 2019
803 pages
978-0-12-815442-7 (ISBN)
Description
Waste: A Handbook for Management, Second Edition, provides information on a wide range of hot topics and developing areas, such as hydraulic fracturing, microplastics, waste management in developing countries, and waste-exposure-outcome pathways. Beginning with an overview of the current waste landscape, including green engineering, processing principles and regulations, the book then outlines waste streams and treatment methods for over 25 different types of waste and reviews best practices and management, challenges for developing countries, risk assessment, contaminant pathways and risk tradeoffs.
With an overall focus on waste recovery, reuse, prevention and lifecycle analysis, the book draws on the experience of an international team of expert contributors to provide reliable guidance on how best to manage wastes for scientists, managers, engineers and policymakers in both the private and public sectors.
- Covers the assessment and treatment of different waste streams in a single book
- Provides a hands-on report on each type of waste problem as written by an expert in the field
- Highlights new findings and evolving problems in waste management via discussion boxes
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Content
A. INTRODUCTION1. Introduction to Waste Management 2. A Systems Approach to Waste Management3. Regulation of Wastes4. Waste Collection5. Waste and Biogeochemical Cycling
B. WASTE STREAMS (and their treatment)6. Mine Waste: A Brief Overview of Origins, Quantities, and Methods of Storage7. Coal Waste Streams8. Effect of Waste on Ecosystems9. Oil and Gas Exploration and Production Wastes10. Metal Waste11. Radioactive Waste Management12. The Municipal Landfill 13. Wastewater 14. Recovered Paper 15. Glass Waste16. End-of-life textiles17. Chemicals in Waste: Household Hazardous Waste18. Reusing Non-hazardous Industrial Waste Across Business Clusters19. Current and emerging construction waste management status, trends and approaches20. Thermal Waste 21. Microplastics: emerging contaminants requiring multilevel management22. Marine Plastic Pollution: other than micro-plastic 23. Plastic Waste: How Plastic has become Part of the Earth's Geological Cycle 24. Air Pollution: Atmospheric Wastes25. Waste: Electrical and Electronic Equipment26. Tyre Recycling27. Medical Waste28. Agricultural Waste and Pollution 29. Waste from Military Operations30. Space waste31. Hazardous Waste 32. Land Pollution
C. BEST PRACTICE AND MANAGEMENT33. Waste Governance34. Waste Constituent Pathways 35. Waste Management Accountability: Risk, Reliability and Resilience36. Evaluating the feasibility of Public Projects
