Waste management

This edited volume takes a comprehensive look at solid waste management across jurisdictions in Canada, including provinces, territories, municipalities, and Indigenous communities.

Die Abfallwirtschaftspolitik in Deutschland muß sich in diesem Buch einer Analyse unterziehen.

Studierende des Bauingenieurwesens werden durch kompaktes Wissen auf ihre komplexen Aufgaben vorbereitet
und auf Vertiefungsmöglichkeiten hingewiesen.

This book presents novel techniques to evaluate electrodialysis processes, to synthesize ionic membranes and to characterize their properties.

This first hands-on guide to ISO-compliant Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) makes this powerful tool immediately accessible to both professionals and students.

This first hands-on guide to ISO-compliant Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) makes this powerful tool immediately accessible to both professionals and students.

This book draws on insights that originated from the Circular Economy and Zero Waste initiatives.

To achieve environmental sustainability in industrial plants, resource conservation activities such as material recovery have begun incorporating process integration techniques for reusing and recycling water, utility gases, solvents, and solid waste.

Als ich 1972 meine Tätigkeit im Institut für Siedlungswasserwirtschaft an der TH Hannover begann, war das Fachgebiet Abfallwirtschaft noch kein Vorlesungsfach.

This book summarise advanced knowledge and methods to recycle waste and fertilise soils in agriculture.

This book presents the complete guide for readers to understand the applications, and pros and cons of nanotechnology applications in environmental remediation, although there are few critical reviews and textbooks available on environmental biotechnology.

This volume of the Chinese Water Systems subseries offers up-to-date and comprehensive information on various aspects of the Poyang Lake, the largest freshwater lake in China.

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.

This book discusses the generation of green energy, providing fundamental scientific information on the availability of sustainable biological resources.

This book presents recent advances in the field of geomaterial and waste management.

This book covers the latest in recycling and reuse research focused toward greater sustainability and includes chapters authored by the world's leading thinkers and practitioners in the field.

The problems related to the process of industrialisation such as biodiversity depletion, climate change and a worsening of health and living conditions, especially but not only in developing countries, intensify.

This book draws on insights that originated from the Circular Economy and Zero Waste initiatives.

This volume focuses on the collection of waste and waste streams as an integral aspect of sustainable waste management.

This book reviews the consequences of improper disposal of greywater into the environment and the most appropriate treatment technologies for developing countries, focusing on the potential to reuse greywater as a production medium for biomass and bio-products.

This volume discusses how small bioreactors can produce useful biogas and compost from biodegradable waste.

This book presents the state of the art in biogas production using anaerobic digestion technology, with an emphasis on waste utilization/valorization.

Matters related to sustainable development, albeit global in nature, are best handled at the local level.

This book describes the huge efforts by the Chinese Government concerning the restoration and future sustainable management of Chinese water systems.

This book takes the reader on a journey from the moment that raw wood material enters the factory to the final pellet consumption.

Because water access, distribution and quality are the most urgent challenges for societies across the world, this book focuses on the current and future demands and challenges in the areas of water scarcity we may face and possible solutions in terms of technology and management including infrastructure changes that are needed for the future smart cities.

This book aims to identify the challenges presented by current urban environmental governance practices in fast growing Indian cities, to propose changes to the current governance implementation strategies, and to explore the best practices to achieve sustainable urban models through Indian and global perspectives.

This book offers extensive and comprehensive knowledge to the researchers and academicians who are working on decontamination of radioactively contaminated areas.

This book discusses sustainable waste management technologies for managing end-of-life (EoL) post-consumer and packaging plastic solid waste (PSW) from domestic and commercial waste streams.

This book addresses recycling technologies for many of the valuable and scarce materials from spent lithium-ion batteries.

This book provides an essential overview of ecotechnologies (also known as green infrastructure or nature-based solutions) which are considered to be relatively resilient to variations in stormwater and wastewater inflow.

Source separation of waste and subsequent recycling processes are promising solutions on the road to a circular economy.

This book provides extensive information on the chemicals that inhabit our environment, our food, our water and our air and the impact that they may be having on human health.

This book focuses on the water-energy-climate nexus, which can be used to improve energy security and quality of life for millions of people in developing countries.

With high urbanization rates, advancement in technologies, and changes in consumption behavior of people, wastes generated through the daily activities of individuals and organizations pose many challenges in their management.

This book presents an assortment of case-studies pertaining to the use of sustainable technologies for heavy metal removal and recovery from mining and metallurgical wastes, construction and demolition wastes, spent catalysts and electronic wastes.

This book covers the principles, underlying mechanisms, thermodynamic functions, kinetics and modeling aspects of sustainable technologies, particularly from the standpoint of applying physical, chemical and biological processes for the treatment of wastewater polluted with heavy metals.

This book provides transdisciplinary analyses of the automotive plastics production and recycling system, including prognoses, scenarios and solutions for corporate sustainability management.

This book presents reviews, examples and case studies of innovative applications in solid and hazardous waste management.