Waste Management

Recycle: The Essential Guide is a basic introduction to the hows, whats, whens and wheres of recycling. With vibrant visuals and a clear, accessibl...

Recycling and Reuse of Materials begins by discussing the production of glass and ceramic products on the basis of recycling of decommitted product...

Solid waste has grown into a relatively difficult problem to solve for those responsible for its management; these responsibilities include the col...

- Gives practical advice for implementing material resource efficiency at all stages of the construction project- Recommends processes and identifi...

*One of NPR''s Books We Love 2021 * ''I came to see the mountains as an outpouring of our modern lives,'' Roy writes, ''of the endless chase for ...

Plastic bottles, cardboard boxes, aluminium cans we all get through a lot of rubbish, but do you really know what happens after you put it in the b...

One of the big challenges that today's growing cities are coping with is the delivery of effective and sustainable waste management, together with ...

DELICIOUS PLANT-BASED RECIPES TO WASTE LESS FOOD!Max La Manna, low waste chef and climate activist, bridges the gap between vegan food and waste-fr...

WINNER: 2020 International Solid Waste Association Publication Award Among other factors, rapid global population growth, our development model a...

An updated edition of an underground classic This is the 4th edition of a self-published book that no respectable publisher would touch with a ten...

Garbage is a memoir of an exceptional trash collector from the streets and wharves of San Francisco. This is a rollicking first-person narrative th...

We've reached an environmental crisis point with plastic, and it's time to take action. But is it possible to make positive changes without radical...

Every day, every one of us contributes to the waste problem but, despite being a part of our lives, waste is poorly understood, even by those who s...

Waste Management and the Environment VIII contains a selection of papers presented at the 8th International Conference on Waste Management and the ...

The growing quantities of waste sludge generated in municipal and industrial wastewater treatment plants containing various organics and other cont...

In this book, the authors gather and present current research in the study of the technological systems, management practices and environmental imp...

Is waste (or trash) really so useless that, as William Faulkner once wrote, [r]ead everythingtrash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it....

Waste-to-Energy is one of the key technologies for sustainable waste management. The book by Laura Mastellone offers a comprehensive overview of th...

Over the past few years, the occurrence of pharmaceutical residues in the environment has attracted great interest regarding the possible harmful e...

Over the last couple of decades, rapid urbanisation, unplanned industrialisation, and a rising population jointly created several issues worldwide,...

This book provides an overview of biodegradation. The first chapter provides a detailed description on the ability of Rhodococcus UKMP-5M to act as...

Despite significant improvements in pollution abatement and environmental remediation over the past several decades, billions of people around the ...

In this collection, the authors open with a review of current state of the art methods for the recovery and reuse of selected monomers and biomacro...

The problems related to the process of industrialisation such as biodiversity depletion, climate change and a worsening of health and living condit...

An 800-CEO-READ Editor's Choice March 2019 How We Can Harness Carbon to Help Solve the Climate Crisis In order to rescue ourselves from climate c...

The first handbook on reclaimed wood, combining useful information, rich history, and design ideas Wood reclaimed from old houses, factories, bar...

Interest in solid and hazardous waste management is relatively recent, i.e., in the last three decades, and is driven by regulations in most countr...

An 800-CEO-READ Editor''s Choice March 2019 How We Can Harness Carbon to Help Solve the Climate Crisis In order to rescue ourselves from cl...

This volume in the Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology, Second edition, provides a comprehensive overview of complementary strate...