Waste Management

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 ...

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

This open access book describes the nondestructive assay techniques that are used for the measurement of nuclear material (primarily uranium and pl...

This book contains detailed and structured approaches to tackling practical decision-making troubles using economic consideration and analytical me...

The book guides specialists and non-specialists from around the world on how or whether anaerobic processes can be part of solutions for the manage...

Per- and polyfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS), often referred to as per- (and poly) fluorinated compounds (PFCs), have been used for years in ma...

Global material crises are imminent. In the very near future, recycling will no longer be a choice made by those concerned about the environment, b...

Consumers are not usually incorporated into the sociological concept of 'division of labour', but using the case of household recycling, this book ...

Everything looked perfect. Sand - unique Baltic sand, the best in the world - and the calm sea. But wait. Something was amiss. Something was wrongI...

Garbage in the Garden State is the only book to examine the history of waste management in New Jersey. The state has played a pioneering role in th...