Solid Waste Management for Resource-Efficient Systems
Circularity in Action
Published on 13. August 2024
450 pages
978-0-443-23776-8 (ISBN)
Description
Circularity in Action: Solid Waste Management for Resource-Efficient Systems promotes innovation and shares best practices based on the principles of circular economy and resource conservation on different aspects of sustainable solid waste management. It also explains sources, impacts and recycling potential of emerging wastes.
This book presents management strategies including emerging green infrastructure and digitalization for recycling and gainful application of waste. In addition, it highlights various environmental and health hazards while providing different management strategies based on the principle of resource recovery and circular economy that can help to minimize the environmental impacts.
- Provides insights for effective management practices with solid waste using case studies on sustainable waste management
- Covers not only the scientific and technical aspects but also environmental, legal and policy aspects of solid waste management with a particular focus on recycling potential for various gainful applications
- Contributes a platform for scientists and environmental researchers and planners to discuss environmental degradation and methodological approaches to sustainable management of recycled products
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Richa Singh | Sanjeeb Mohapatra | Mui-Choo Jong
Solid Waste Management for Resource-Efficient Systems
Circularity in Action
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08/2024
Elsevier
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Content
Section I: Composition and characterization of different types of municipal solid waste1. Characterization and compositional analysis of municipal solid waste in developing and developed world - an insight2. An Overview of Solid Waste Management in Pacific Island Countries - Current Status, Challenges and Recommendations3. Solid waste management in emerging economies: Opportunities and challenges for reuse, recycling and scientific disposal4. E-waste management in developing economies: challenges and approaches5. Uniform E-Waste Classification - A Required Policy to Compare Country-Level E-Waste StatisticsSection II: Environmental and health hazards due to improper management of solid wastes6. Emerging environmental contaminants fate at landfill sites and leachate7. Occurrence, fate and quantification of microplastics in the urban aquatic environment: Problems and opportunities for solutions8. Worldwide impact of COVID 19 on sustainable solid waste management - challenges and opportunitiesSection III: Management Strategies and approaches for biodegradable and non-biodegradable solid waste9. A systematic review of treatment technologies and optimization of parameters for volarization of biodegradable organic waste10. A review of rapid composting techniques and optimization of parameters for the management of organic waste11. Perspective of the circular economy on valorizations of used cooking oil12. Decarbonization in waste management sector13. Pollutants control strategies for modern waste incinerators: Status quo in China in the context of municipal solid waste classification14. Plastic waste recycling into roads - existing scenario in India: challenges and future opportunities15. Upcycling of multilayer plastic waste plastics into roads: A potential technology for management of non-recyclable plastic wastes16. Waste-to-Resource conversion in the Indian textile industry through circular economy principlesSection IV: Dumpsite remediation and landfill management: environmental implications and management strategies17. Status of landfilling in developing and developed nations: a literature review18. Legacy waste management and dumpsite remediation by using bioremediation process - lessons learnt in India19. Landfill Mining opportunities and challenges in a European perspective20. Significance of natural treatment systems for management of landfill leachate: fate of micropollutants
