This volume focuses on the effects of various toxic agents on human health. It covers advances in research, testing, remediation, and removal methods.

This addition to the Advances in Environmental Control Technology Series contains 23 chapters designed to provide an extensive overview and reference on human physiological responses to various forms of pollution.

Focusing on the problems of pollution reduction and containment, this book discusses various waste management practices that have resulted from increasingly stringent government regulations. Several chapters deal with the practical applications of pollution and contaminant control technology to specific industries, including printing, semi-conductor manufacturing, leather tanning, aluminum smelting and wood preserving Techniques for site remediation, treatment of wastewater, management of underground and storage tanks, asbestos abatement, waste treatment for petroleum and synthetic fuel and incineration of medical wastes are also covered.

Biological treatment, new designs for waste sites, computer models of pollution situations, and the latest in lining and other containment options are covered in this volume. It also discusses techniques for discovering and identifying sources of contamination.

This reference examines the impact of acids, metals, oils, and other water-borne wastes on forests, crops, watersheds, lakes, rivers, and wildlife. It focuses on the key areas of treatment and disposal of wastewater and sludge, and the groundwater effects associated with the migration of wastes.

The eighth volume in the "Encyclopedia of Environmental Control Technology" series, this book is closely related to volume seven "High Hazard Pollutants". While a portion of that work was devoted entirely to workplace environmental hazards (mainly chemical in nature), this volume expands dramatically on the subject, and deals with a host of occupational hazards ranging from air quality to emergencies, to medical waste management. Detection and prevention of workplace dangers, safety audits and personal protection are the prevailing concepts of this work. As with previous volumes in this series, there are many case stuxdies, literature reviews, and updates on environmental legislation.

As landfills are closed and new and stricter legislation enacted, the problems of waste and pollution grow ever larger. Re-engineering production lines to reduce the source of unusable by-products is one answer, and developing new technologies to make use of these materials another. Recycling provides an immediate solution, and it is one that is becoming more and more popular in a variety of industries ranging from styrene to steel to newsprint. Like the other titles in the "Encyclopedia of Environmental Control Technology" series, this volume draws on contributors from around the world who are engaged in finding ways to solve the problems of waste and devising new strategies for recycling.