Sustainable Solid Waste Management (Paperback)

Sponsored by the Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste Engineering Committee of the Environmental Council of the Environmental and Water Resources Institute of ASCE. Sustainable Solid Waste Management describes basic principles and recent advances for handling solid waste in an environmentally sustainable way. Solid waste poses problems of quantity-the sheer amount is increasing around the world-but also of environmental impact, especially with the introduction of materials harmful to ecosystems. This volume uses a global lens to examine all aspects of the solid waste, including waste minimization, waste as a resource, appropriate disposal, and efficient systems fostered by effective public policy. Written by leading experts, the 22 chapters analyze the critical issues to be considered during the various stages of a waste management program. Topics include: public policies focusing on reducing waste at its source, recycling, and minimizing disposal amounts technologies for treating and recycling solid waste safe, efficient treatment and disposal of hazardous and other special wastes development and maintenance of engineered landfills and landfill mining legal frameworks and the use of life-cycle assessment as a tool for the waste management industry. Municipal engineers, environmental managers, researchers, students, policy makers, and planners will find this book to be an essential guide to social and technological issues related to sustainable solid waste management.

General

Imprint:	American Society of Civil Engineers
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 2016
Editors:	Jonathan W. C. Wong • Rao Y Surampalli • Tian C. Zhang • Rajeshwar D. Tyagi • Ammaiyappan Selvam
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 38mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	750
ISBN-13:	978-0-7844-1410-1
Categories:	Books > Professional & Technical > Environmental engineering & technology > Pollution control Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Waste management > General Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Environmental economics > Sustainability Books > Professional & Technical > Environmental engineering & technology > Sanitary & municipal engineering > Waste treatment & disposal > General
LSN:	0-7844-1410-6
Barcode:	9780784414101

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