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Solid Waste Management - Principles and Practice (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2012)
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Solid Waste Management - Principles and Practice (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2012)
Series: Environmental Science
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Solid waste was already a problem long before water and air
pollution issues attracted public attention. Historically the
problem associated with solid waste can be dated back to
prehistoric days. Due to the invention of new products,
technologies and services the quantity and quality of the waste
have changed over the years. Waste characteristics not only depend
on income, culture and geography but also on a society's economy
and, situations like disasters that affect that economy. There was
tremendous industrial activity in Europe during the industrial
revolution. The twentieth century is recognized as the American
Century and the twenty-first century is recognized as the Asian
Century in which everyone wants to earn 'as much as possible'.
After Asia the currently developing Africa could next take the
center stage. With transitions in their economies many countries
have also witnessed an explosion of waste quantities. Solid waste
problems and approaches to tackling them vary from country to
country. For example, while efforts are made to collect and dispose
hospital waste through separate mechanisms in India it is burnt
together with municipal solid waste in Sweden. While trans-boundary
movement of waste has been addressed in numerous international
agreements, it still reaches developing countries in many forms.
While thousands of people depend on waste for their livelihood
throughout the world, many others face problems due to poor waste
management. In this context solid waste has not remained an issue
to be tackled by the local urban bodies alone. It has become a
subject of importance for engineers as well as doctors,
psychologist, economists, and climate scientists and any others.
There are huge changes in waste management in different parts of
the world at different times in history. To address these issues,
an effort has been made by the authors to combine their experience
and bring together a new text book on the theory and practice of
the subject covering the important relevant literature at the same
time.
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