Pollution control

Sustainable Management of Urban Plastic Waste Through Circular Economic Approaches covers the technologies and methods essential to overcome single-use plastic processing waste.

This practical guide identifies the technical challenges of transitioning to battery electric vehicles in Australia, reviews the impacts of life cycle emissions on passenger transport systems, and presents government, institutional and personal requirements for reducing passenger vehicle mode share.

Pollution is an ever-growing threat to our planet and manifests itself most dramatically in its impact on the natural environment which surrounds us.

Toxic City presents a novel critique of postindustrial green gentrification through a study of Bayview-Hunters Point, a historically Black neighborhood in San Francisco.

While sustainable growth confronts a progressively decisive role, and governments embrace measures to authorize reduced carbon emissions, understanding pioneering methods to provide supply chains in an environmental context epitomizes a significant purpose in diverse sectors.

Ecosystem services provide benefits to humans, includingprovisioning services (food, water, timber, fibre and genetic resources), regulating services (regulation of climate, floods, diseases and water quality), cultural services (recreational, aesthetic and spiritual), and support services (soil formation, pollination and nutrient cycling).

Household hazardous waste (HHW) is a topic that affects every individual and community given the nearly universal use, storage, and disposal of chemical consumer products.

The Dust Bowl was one of the worst natural disasters in the US fueled by man's lack of ignorance on how nature works.

This book provides a current review of the problem of heavy metal removal.

Indoor air quality and human health are of continuously growing importance.

Mining activities can increase environmental problems and compromise the quality of soils, surface water, groundwater and atmosphere, as well as expose the biota to toxic elements.

Once pollutants are released into the atmosphere, they cannot be removed easily nor can the reaction with atmospheric constituents be ceased.

The use of certain deterrent measures and supporting mechanisms of macroeconomic environmental policies is greatly important.

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection.

Handbook of Chemical Technology and Pollution Control integrates industrial chemistry with pollution control and environmental chemistry.

It is toward investigating, discussing and presenting the various issues involved in solid waste closure that this book is focused.

This volume contains most of the scientific contributions to the workshop ``Prediction of Agricultural Nonpoint Source Pollution: Model Selection and Application' held in Venice, in the historic Ca' Vendramin Calergi, in June, 1984.

Eutrophication in the transitional marine coastal waters has increased dramatically in many parts of the world, and this evolution has shifted attention to the anthropogenic factor.

Dynamical Geology of Salt and Related Structures deals with many aspects of the dynamical evolution of salt bodies in sedimentary basins.

Total Environmental Control: The Economics of Cross-Media Pollution Transfers covers the theoretical basis of cross-media transfers of pollution.

Environmental contamination poses a significant threat to ecosystems and human health.

Condensation Particle Counting Technology and Its Applications introduces the principles, key components, calibration methods, and applications of condensation particle counting systems.

"e;An excellent starting place for research on plastic and its environmental impact.

Living in an urban environment can have a major influence-both positive and negative-on one's physical health and mental well-being.

The Handbook of Cleaner Production comprises a series of reference guides to cleaner production methods, technologies, and practices for key industry sectors.

Enough plastic is thrown away every year to circle the world 4 times More than 8 million tonnes of plastic enter the oceans each year 300 million tonnes of new plastic is produced every year An estimated 15-51 trillion pieces of plastic now litter the world's oceans 38.

This book provides insights into China's energy consumption and pollution as well as its energy saving policies.

This book provides insights into China's energy consumption and pollution as well as its energy saving policies.

Siting Noxious Facilities explains and illustrates processes and criteria used to site noxious manufacturing and waste management facilities.

Siting Noxious Facilities explains and illustrates processes and criteria used to site noxious manufacturing and waste management facilities.

Phytoremediation with wetland plants is an eco-friendly, aesthetically pleasing, cost-effective, solar-driven, passive technique that is useful for cleaning up environmental pollutants with low to moderate levels of contamination.

Offering broad coverage of advanced principals and applications, Control of Heavy Metals in the Environment mini series provides chemical and environmental engineers with the most complete resource available on the remediation of heavy metal contaminants with an emphasis on advanced and alternative approaches.

Despite the efforts of Southeast Asian governments and of ASEAN, transboundary haze continues to be a major environmental problem in Southeast Asia.

Despite the efforts of Southeast Asian governments and of ASEAN, transboundary haze continues to be a major environmental problem in Southeast Asia.

Ports are a vital part of the global economy, connecting the world through maritime transport networks, promoting international trade, and supporting global economic growth.

Ports are a vital part of the global economy, connecting the world through maritime transport networks, promoting international trade, and supporting global economic growth.

The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, signed into law in 1972, dramatically redirected the nation's water pollution control efforts and set out ambitious national goals, expressed both in terms of discharge controls and of resulting water quality.

The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, signed into law in 1972, dramatically redirected the nation's water pollution control efforts and set out ambitious national goals, expressed both in terms of discharge controls and of resulting water quality.

Five years after the one of the worst nuclear accidents in history, Fukushima now only occasionally headlines national and international media.

Five years after the one of the worst nuclear accidents in history, Fukushima now only occasionally headlines national and international media.

The Environmental Management Revision Guide: For the NEBOSH Certificate in Environmental Management is the perfect revision aid for students preparing to take their NEBOSH Certificate in Environmental Management.

The Environmental Management Revision Guide: For the NEBOSH Certificate in Environmental Management is the perfect revision aid for students preparing to take their NEBOSH Certificate in Environmental Management.

Environmental contamination poses a significant threat to ecosystems and human health.

A comprehensive reference on the main methodologies used to calculate the benefits of pollution control, with worked examples.

A comprehensive reference on the main methodologies used to calculate the benefits of pollution control, with worked examples.

Natural radiation is omnipresent everywhere on the earth, and humans cannot avoid it.

The International Atomic Energy Agency estimates that nuclear power generation facilities produce about 200,000 cubic meters of low and intermediate-level waste each year.