Waste: A Handbook for Management

by Trevor Letcher (Editor), Daniel A. Vallero (Editor)

Overview

Waste: A Handbook for Management gives the broadest, most complete coverage of waste in our society. The book examines a wide range of waste streams, including: - Household waste (compostable material, paper, glass, textiles, household chemicals, plastic, water, and e-waste) - Industrial waste (metals, building materials, tires, medical, batteries, hazardous mining, and nuclear) - Societal waste (ocean, military, and space) - The future of landfills and incinerators Covering all the issues related to waste in one volume helps lead to comparisons, synergistic solutions, and a more informed society. In addition, the book offers the best ways of managing waste problems through recycling, incineration, landfill and other processes. - Co-author Daniel Vallero interviewed on NBC's Today show for a segment on recycling - Scientific and non-biased overviews will assist scientists, technicians, engineers, and government leaders - Covers all main types of waste, including household, industrial, and societal - Strong focus on management and recycling provides solutions

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780123814760
Publisher:	Elsevier Science & Technology Books
Publication date:	01/20/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	604
File size:	8 MB

About the Author

Professor Trevor Letcher is an Emeritus Professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, and living in the United Kingdom. He was previously Professor of Chemistry, and Head of Department, at the University of the Witwatersrand, Rhodes University, and Natal, in South Africa (1969-2004). He has published over 300 papers on areas such as chemical thermodynamic and waste from landfill in peer reviewed journals, and 100 papers in popular science and education journals. Prof. Letcher has edited and/or written 32 major books, of which 22 were published by Elsevier, on topics ranging from future energy, climate change, storing energy, waste, tyre waste and recycling, wind energy, solar energy, managing global warming, plastic waste, renewable energy, and environmental disasters. He has been awarded gold medals by the South African Institute of Chemistry and the South African Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics honoured him with a Festschrift in 2018. He is a life member of both the Royal Society of Chemistry (London) and the South African Institute of Chemistry. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics, and is a Director of the Board of the International Association of Chemical Thermodynamics since 2002.
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 earth’s atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, and biosphere.

Table of Contents

1. A  History of Waste Management 2. Green Engineering and Sustainable Design Aspects of Waste Management3. Waste Regulations with special emphasis to the USA 4. Waste Collection 5. Mine Waste: A Brief Overview of Origins, Quantities and Methods of Storage6. Metal Waste 7. Radioactive Waste Management8. Municipal Waste Management 9. Waste Water: Reuse of Oriented Wastewater  - Low- and High-Tech Approaches for Urban Areas10. Recovered Paper  11. Glass Waste12. Textile Waste13. Chemicals in Waste: Household Hazardous Waste 14. Reusing Non-hazardous Industrial Waste across Business Clusters15. Construction Waste 1. 16.Thermal Waste Treatment 16. Plastic solid waste (PSW) and thermo-chemical treatment  17. Air pollution (including pollution due to Coal and Oil  Burning, Cement Making and Automobile exhaust pollution   18. Ocean pollution19. Electronic Waste 20. Tyres21. Battery Waste22. Medical waste  23. Agricultural Waste and Pollution 24. Military waste25. Space waste26. Hazardous Wastes   27. Land Pollution 28. Thermal Pollution29. Landfills, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow 30. Pollution Management and Responsible Care31. Risk Assessment, Management and Accountability Epilogue Index

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Waste is one of the most important issues facing the world today. This book is a serious study of the problems related to all types of waste in our society, including household, industrial, and societal waste, with a focus on recycling and management solutions.