Waste management

What makes trash trash?

This monograph consists of manuscripts submitted by invited speakers who participated in the symposium "e;Industrial Environmental Chemistry: Waste Minimization in Industrial Processes and Remediation of Hazardous Waste,"e; held March 24-26, 1992, at Texas A&M University.

This book provides high-quality research results and proposes future priorities for more sustainable development and energy security.

Commissioned by the Cabinet Office and using hitherto untapped British Government records, this book presents an in-depth analysis of the successful project of 1986-94.

Presenting an in-depth coverage, this textbook brings together and integrates key topics including water resources, wastewater, air, and solid waste in a single volume.

A "e;zero waste"e; society and the "e;circular economy"e; trend are urgently needed.

This book describes the latest advances, innovations and applications in the field of waste management and environmental geomechanics as presented by leading researchers, engineers and practitioners at the International Conference on Sustainable Waste Management through Design (IC_SWMD), held in Ludhiana (Punjab), India on November 2-3, 2018.

This informative volume provides comprehensive knowledge on various aspects of wastewater resource management from the point of process sustainability and resource recovery.

This volume addresses the latest results of the Major Water Program of the Chinese Government which aims at the restoration of polluted water environments and sustainable management of water resources in China.

In situ treatments involving the arrangement of contact between prospective reactants in complex porous media require a refined understanding of solute migration.

This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of nuclear power engineering, as presented by researchers and engineers at the Saudi International Conference on Nuclear Power Engineering (SCOPE), which was organized by King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), and held in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia on November 13-15, 2023.

With rampant industrialization, the management of waste generated by various industries is becoming a mammoth problem.

This book contains papers, presented at the ITA World Tunnelling Congress 2003 held in Amsterdam, which reflects the state of the art with regard to research, analysis, design and practical experience in almost all fields of tunnelling and underground space construction.

Solid Waste Landfilling: Concepts, Processes, Technology provides information on technologies that promote stabilization and minimize environmental impacts in landfills.

Geotechnical Aspects of Underground Construction in Soft Ground comprises a collection of 118 papers, four reports on symposium themes, and four invited lectures presented at the seventh International Symposium on Geotechnical Aspects of Underground Construction in Soft Ground, held in Rome, Italy, 16-18 May 2011.

Rock dynamics has become one of the most important topics in the field of rock mechanics and rock engineering, and involves a wide variety of topics, from earthquake engineering, blasting, impacts, failure of rock engineering structures as well as the occurrence and prediction of earthquakes, induced seismicity, rock bursts to non-destructive testing and explorations.

Complex and ever changing in its forms and functions, the element mercury follows a convoluted course through the environment and up the food chain.

Minerals are essential commodities for the growth of mankind, and all the progress of humanity owes unequivocally to minerals.

The United States is in the process of destroying its chemical weapons stockpile.

Industrial Waste Treatment Process Engineering is a step-by-step implementation manual in three volumes, detailing the selection and design of industrial liquid and solid waste treatment systems.

Frequently a substance found at a port of entry, waste site, laboratory triage facility, or even in a hazardous materials emergency will be labeled and purportedly identified.

This volume contains the proceedings of the 18th North American Mine Ventilation Symposium held, on a virtual platform, June 12-17, 2021.

This book was originally published in 1990 and was the first text to consider the definitive fundamental science of landfill biotechnology.

The book describes the theory and current practices for design of earth lateral support for deep excavations in soil.

FROM THE INTRODUCTIONThis three-volume set, Bioremediation: Principles and Practice, provides state of the art description of advances in pollution treatment and reduction using biological means; identify and address, at a fundamental level, broad scientific and technological areas that are unique to the subject or theme and that must be understood if advances are to be made; and provide a comprehensive overview of new developments at the regulatory, desk-top, bench-scale, pilot scale, and full-scale levels.

Compost Utilization in Production of Horticultural Crops provides information for the compost industry to develop horticulture production efforts and techniques.

This volume provides an overview of recent trends in bioremediation techniques.

This book overviews the cutting-edge applications of biotechnological tools and techniques in valorizing industrial waste to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

Given the myriad exhaust compounds and the corresponding problems that they can pose in an exhaust management system, the proper choice of such systems is a complex task.

This book aims to give the reader a short, tractable and as far as possible complete introduction to the young theory of hypoplasticity, which is a new approach to constitutive modelling of granular media in terms of rational continuum mechanics.

Business models, which aims at determining how efficient can be a life cycle strategy from different point of view (customer, policy, environment, economics,.

An Introduction to Environmental Biotechnology provides an introduction to the subject of environmental biotechnology.

Economic circularity is the ability of a society to reduce waste by recycling, reusing, and repairing raw materials and finished products.

While numerous books are available on remediation systems, this is the first work to document and explain in full the design aspects of the subject.

Construction and Demolition Waste (CDW), from the construction, maintenance, renovation and demolition of buildings and structures, represents a large proportion of the waste in industrialized societies.

Some 70,000 hazardous materials are in various workplaces across the country.

This book comprehensively explores various aspects of food waste management, ranging from understanding the issue to innovative solutions that convert waste into valuable resources.

This book introduces and develops the novel concept of Lean Construction 4.

This book provides useful information and applications of biochar produced from agricultural waste for removal of contaminants from industrial effluent and reutilization of waste sludge in the production of biofuel/bioenergy.

Have you ever wondered what lies beneath the streets of your city?

During the past five years increased awareness of environmental contamination by nitroaromatic compounds has led to a dramatic increase in research on their biodegradation.

This book details the attractive features of algae as a sustainable third-generation feedstock for biorefineries.

The objective of this text is to provide information on mill tailings and mine waste, and to discuss current and future issues facing the mining and environmental communities.

Enzymes play a vital role in the enzymatic hydrolysis of waste for its conversion to useful value-added products.

In the last decades coal production capacity has increased rapidly and its quality, power and the reliability of equipment has steadily improved.

Environmental Damage to DNA and the Protective Effects of Phytochemicals provides information on the toxicity of natural as well as synthetic chemicals in the living systems.

Laboratory and Field Testing is the second volume of the five-volume set Rock Mechanics and Engineering and contains nineteen chapters from key experts in the following fields:- Triaxial or True-triaxial Tests under Condition of Loading and Unloading;- Joint Tests;- Dynamic and Creep Tests;- Physical Modeling Tests;- Field Testing and URLs.

Environmental pollution is an emerging global public health problem of both developing and developed nations.