This book compiles many different treatment options and best practices for the treatment and recycling of municipal solid waste from all over the globe, factoring in cost-effectiveness, sanitation, and environmental degradation. Important to professors, researchers, students, policymakers, and municipal offices, this informed book looks into innovative waste management systems from a number of developing countries, which may prove useful to developed countries of the world as well.

Solid waste management has received attention lately because many countries of the world are facing the problem of how to handle the ever-growing volume of human waste. This book compiles many different treatment options and best practices for the treatment and recycling of municipal solid waste from all over the globe, factoring in cost-effectiveness, sanitation, and environmental degradation. Important to professors, researchers, students, policymakers, and municipal offices, this informed book looks into innovative waste management systems from a number of developing countries, which may prove useful to developed countries of the world as well. This book is unique in that it focuses on state-of- the-art urban solid waste management and future trends. Topics include: solid waste treatment technologies; solid waste segregation, collection, disposal, and treatment; community-based social marketing management approaches; resource recovery through RDIF (Radio Frequency Identification) technology; and, vermicomposting.