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Integrated and Sustainable Environmental Remediation (Hardcover)
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Integrated and Sustainable Environmental Remediation (Hardcover)
Series: ACS Symposium Series
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In the past few years, the subject of climate change has frequently
garnered headlines due to the usual political controversy
surrounding it. However, setting aside the argument as to whether
climate change is a man-made effect or not, we cannot deny the fact
that humanity has been discharging carbon increasingly into the
atmosphere for centuries. Likewise, similar reports on the growing
Great Pacific Garbage Patch-and the general accumulation of
plastics everywhere-are alarming. Moreover, it has also been
recently demonstrated that microplastics are finally entering the
food webs which include the human consumer. Air, soil, and water
pollution are increasing; in some ways forcing certain countries
and governments to modify their politics, while also creating new
opportunities and opening new niches for the marketing of products,
such as air and water filters. With current techniques, it is not
possible to completely eliminate all toxic and hazardous waste,
which means that security deposits are necessary. Security deposits
are storage areas prepared for certain toxic and dangerous
industrial waste, so that its harmful properties cannot affect the
natural environment and human health-at least, in any case, for a
very long time. Due to their geomorphological composition,
topography, and hydrographic conditions, there are sites that can
be used as waste deposits, given their natural isolation and
projected stability for hundreds of years. Thus, they become
security deposits. In addition, every day new materials and
construction techniques are developed that allow for a total
isolation of the waste. A relatively new view in the material life
cycle is the reuse of the generated waste as new resources. This
helps to mitigate the cost increases in raw materials, energy, and
regulations regarding waste disposal, which have caused the
industry to rethink its production methods, leading to a better use
of raw materials and energy. Clean technologies are those used by
the industry to reduce the need for treatment or disposal of waste
and to reduce the demand for raw materials, energy, and water. For
the proper implementation of clean technologies, industries and
municipalities must develop a deep understanding of their own
processes and activities, and must analyze the characteristics of
their equipment and make any possible modifications. An
environmental evaluation of the situation provides suitable
information on the efficiency of each component and its integration
in the whole process, on the proportion of waste, on energy
consumption, and on how to reorganize or modify to improve
cost-efficiency in economic and environmental terms, which in a
middle term view results in synergistic goals. With this concise
introduction to the world of waste and pollutant treatment
technologies, the editors believe it is clear that the solutions
are to be developed on a case-by-case basis; because the larger the
number of mixed pollutants, the more complex and intimated the
process will be. This book presents a series of selected approaches
that can be used to approach different cases, also depending upon
budget and viability of a sustainable approach. This book serves as
a source of information, triggers ideas, and fosters interaction
between all the players taking action in sustainable development
initiatives.
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