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Waste (2nd Ed.)
A Handbook for Management
Coordinators: Letcher Trevor, Vallero Daniel A.
Language: EnglishSubject for Waste:
Keywords
Green Engineering; Waste collection; Mine waste; metal waste; radioactive waste; municipal waste; Wastewater; Recovered paper; Household hazardous waste; Waste pathways; Waste management; Industrial waste; Brownfields; Hydraulic fracturing; Fracking; Medical waste; Land pollution; Risk assessment
803 p. · 19x23.3 cm · Paperback
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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.
A. INTRODUCTION 1. Introduction to Waste Management 2. A Systems Approach to Waste Management 3. Regulation of Wastes 4. Waste Collection 5. Waste and Biogeochemical Cycling
B. WASTE STREAMS (and their treatment) 6. Mine Waste: A Brief Overview of Origins, Quantities, and Methods of Storage 7. Coal Waste Streams 8. Effect of Waste on Ecosystems 9. Oil and Gas Exploration and Production Wastes 10. Metal Waste 11. Radioactive Waste Management 12. The Municipal Landfill 13. Wastewater 14. Recovered Paper 15. Glass Waste 16. End-of-life textiles 17. Chemicals in Waste: Household Hazardous Waste 18. Reusing Non-hazardous Industrial Waste Across Business Clusters 19. Current and emerging construction waste management status, trends and approaches 20. Thermal Waste 21. Microplastics: emerging contaminants requiring multilevel management 22. 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 Wastes 25. Waste: Electrical and Electronic Equipment 26. Tyre Recycling 27. Medical Waste 28. Agricultural Waste and Pollution 29. Waste from Military Operations 30. Space waste 31. Hazardous Waste 32. Land Pollution
C. BEST PRACTICE AND MANAGEMENT 33. Waste Governance 34. Waste Constituent Pathways 35. Waste Management Accountability: Risk, Reliability and Resilience 36. Evaluating the feasibility of Public Projects
Professor Daniel A. Vallero is an internationally recognized author and expert in environmental science and engineering. He has devoted decades to conducting research, teaching, and mentoring future scientists and engineers. He is currently developing tools and models to predict potential exposures to chemicals in consumer products. He is a full adjunct professor of civil and environmental engineering at Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering. He has authored 20 environmental textbooks, with the most recent addressing the importance of physical principles in environmental science and engineering. His books have addressed all environmental compartments and media within the
- 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