Waste

A Handbook for Management
2. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-12-815060-3
Verlag: William Andrew Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 803 Seiten, Format (B × H): 191 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1540 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Scientists, engineers, legislators and collaborators in all areas of waste management, including environmental scientists and engineers in both academia and industry, government officials, waste managers, technicians, and maintenance personnel

Autoren/Hrsg.

Letcher, Trevor

Vallero, Daniel A.

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Energie- & Versorgungswirtschaft Entsorgungswirtschaft
• Technische Wissenschaften Umwelttechnik | Umwelttechnologie Abfallwirtschaft, Abfallentsorgung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Vallero, Daniel A.
Professor Daniel A. Vallero is a renowned environmental scientist and engineer with four decades of experience. He has advised U.S. government agencies on critical issues like PBTs, climate change, acid rain, and chemical risks. At Duke University, he led the Engineering Ethics program and taught courses on air pollution, sustainable design, and ethics. Vallero has served on the National Academy of Engineering's Online Ethics Committee and the National Institute of Engineering Ethics. An expert in emerging technologies, he focuses on societal, ethical, and public health challenges related to nanotechnology and environmental biotechnology. His work also encompasses emergency response and homeland security, making him a leading voice in environmental risk and ethics.

Letcher, Trevor
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.