Waste

A Handbook for Management
3rd Auflage
ISBN: 978-0-443-43840-0
Verlag: Elsevier Science

Buch, Englisch, 1070 Seiten, Format (B × H): 191 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 449 g

Waste: A Handbook for Management, Third Edition, presents updated information on the latest advancements in waste management, emphasizing sustainable practices and innovative technologies. This edition introduces new chapters on emerging issues, including food waste management and waste from renewable energy infrastructure, ensuring that readers are equipped with the tools necessary to develop sustainable waste management strategies. This book covers topics such as best practice and management of waste, regulation of waste streams, waste collection, and bioengineering. Readers will also find detailed discussions in each chapter on health aspects, waste prevention and reuse, emission pathways, collection and transport, sustainability and life cycle, the ecological effects of waste, and community involvement. Contributions from leading experts in the field are featured, ensuring that readers have access to reliable guidance on managing diverse waste streams.

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. Remnants of Coal Combustion, Ash Pits
8. Effect of Waste on Ecosystems
9. Oil and Gas Exploration and Production Waste
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. Current and emerging construction waste management status, trends and approaches
18. Thermal Waste
19. Microplastics: emerging contaminants requiring multilevel management
20. How Plastic has become Part of the Geological Cycle on Earth
21. Air Pollution: Atmospheric Wastes
22. Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment
23. Tire Recycling
24. Medical Waste
25. Agricultural Waste and Pollution
26. Waste from Military Operations
27. Space waste
28. Hazardous Waste Clean-up
29. Land Pollution
30. Food Waste
31. Waste From Re-newable Energy Infrastructure

C. BEST PRACTICE AND MANAGEMENT
32. Waste Governance
33. Philosophy of Waste Management
34. Waste Constituent Pathways
35. Waste Management Accountability: Risk, Reliability and Resilience
36. Evaluating the Feasibility of Public Projects

D. THE FUTURE
37. Advanced waste management technologies
38. Macro-scale waste issues

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.