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Waste Management and the Environment X (Hardcover)
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Waste Management and the Environment X (Hardcover)
Series: WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment, 247
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Waste Management is one of the key problems of modern society due
to the ever-expanding volume and complexity of discarded domestic
and industrial waste. Society is increasingly aware of the need to
establish better practices and safer solutions for waste disposal.
This requires further investigation into disposal methods and
recycling as well as new technologies to monitor landfills,
industrial mining wastes and chemical and nuclear repositories.
This creates a need for more research on current disposal methods
such as landfills, incineration, chemical and effluent treatment,
as well as recycling, clean technologies, waste monitoring, public
and corporate awareness and general education. Unfortunately, many
of the policies adopted in the past were aimed at short term
solutions without due regard to the long term implications on
health and the environment, leading in many cases to the need to
take difficult and expensive remedial action. The desired direction
of Waste Management is towards sustainable strategies. The approach
that has emerged as the most promising has been called 4Rs, where
reduction, reuse, recycling and recovery are seen as the best
actions. This largely decreases the volume of waste that needs
final disposal. Recovery refers to the establishment of two new
classifications, those of Secondary Raw Materials (SRM) and of
Refuse Derived Fuel (RDF). They both relate to useful products
obtained from waste and make a shift from the mere recycle or reuse
- mostly seen as a way to reduce dumping - to the valuable
employment of such matter within the production cycle. Another
aspect of this revolution is happening subtly and gradually by
people buying waste; particularly eWaste and some types of plastic,
the so-called technical waste. This is happening due to the strong
demand and high price of certain new materials and the possibility
of sorting out waste in developing regions of the world. As a
result, a market in Secondary Raw Materials (SRM) has developed.
Covering various areas under the topic of Waste management, this
volume contains a selection of papers presented at the 10th
International Conference on Waste Management and the Environment.
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