Waste Management

This book examines the application of wood waste in various advancements in environmental fields, such as construction, renewable energy, bio-absor...

Electronic waste, which includes everything from refrigerators to smartphones, is one of the worlds fastest growing waste streams. Often these item...

The concept of a circular economy has been gaining increasing attention in recent years. Many of the sources of chemicals we have become reliant on...

Plastic has become a ubiquitous part of modern life. A cheap, lightweight material, it is used in everything from food packaging to consumer electr...

Environmental pollutants have become a major global concern. The modern growth of industrialization, urbanization, modern agricultural development ...

This book explains the main problems of industrial wastewater treatments and how they are being treated by innovative biological processes. The nee...

Economic circularity is the ability of a society to reduce waste by recycling, reusing, and repairing raw materials and finished products. This con...

Resisting Garbage presents a new approach to understanding practices of waste removal and recycling in American cities, one that is grounded in the...

Fresh Killsa monumental 2,200-acre site on Staten Islandwas once the worlds largest landfill. From 1948 to 2001, it was the main receptacle for New...

Environmental remediation technologies to control or prevent pollution from hazardous waste material is a growing research area in academia and ind...

Dieses Standardwerk der Abfallwirtschaft wurde von den Autoren komplett aktualisiert. Besonders hervorzuheben sind folgende Veränderungen:- Aktuali...

Radioactive waste (above all highly radioactive wastes from nuclear installations) caused by research, medicine and technology must be disposed of ...

This proceedings book of ICES 2023 presents the most recent studies on environmental sciences and environmental sustainability, which contributes t...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

Businesses are grappling with a profound dilemma the pursuit of economic prosperity versus the goal of ecological sustainability. Climate change i...

Paper, bottles, metal scrap, kitchen garbage, rubber, hair, fat, rags, and bones--the Nazi empire demanded its population obsessively collect anyth...

Tunnels and Underground Cities: Engineering and Innovation meet Archaeology, Architecture and Art. Volume 5: Innovation in underground engineering,...

Tunnels and Underground Cities: Engineering and Innovation meet Archaeology, Architecture and Art. Volume 7: Long and Deep Tunnels contains the con...

Geotechnical Aspects of Underground Construction in Soft Ground comprises a collection of 118 papers, four reports on symposium themes, and four in...

In the midst of global economic development, the world is rapidly running out of resources. It is imperative that the level of carbon emissions be ...

Reflecting the concerns over environmental sustainability, there has been an increasing focus on the protection of our water resources and on the p...

What started as a modest waste collection and disposal company in Chicago transformed into North Americas leading provider of waste collection, rec...

In the midst of global economic development, the world is rapidly running out of resources. It is imperative that the level of carbon emissions be ...

Environmental engineering has a leading role in the elimination of ecological threats, and deals, in brief, with securing technically the condition...

This book is based on research and observations undertaken for the author's PhD thesis at the National University of Ireland, and represents a case...

Waste is increasingly a site of social conflict. The questions related to waste management are not merely technical; what, how, where, and by whom ...

One billion tonnes of food wasted is generated around the world every year. This book seeks to address and mitigate this urgent problem by focusing...

An infamous voyage explores the hazardous waste trade and environmental justiceIn 1986 the Khian Sea, carrying thousands of tons of incinerator ash...

Guidelines for Mine Waste Dump and Stockpile Design is a comprehensive, practical guide to the investigation, design, operation and monitoring of m...

In India, you can still find the kabaadiwala, the rag-and-bone man. He wanders from house to house buying old newspapers, broken utensils, plastic ...