Waste treatment and disposal

This book reviews the recent scientific developments on mining and metallurgical wastes-based alkali-activated materials (MMWAAMs).

This book presents advanced knowledge and techniques to improve food quality, such as organic farming, fertilization using waste, reducing arsenic in food, soil restoration, forage production in arid regions and weed control.

During the past few years the worlds has reverberated of names like Seveso, Love Canal, Lekkerkerk, Times Beach, just to name the most publicized ones.

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 is the first volume in a three-volume set on Solid Waste Engineering and Management.

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.

The volume of waste produced by human activity continues to grow, but steps are being taken to mitigate this problem by viewing waste as a resource.

This book provides the detail information about nanoparticles, their types, characterization techniques such as TEM, FESEM, AFM, XRD etc.

Vertical flow constructed wetlands for wastewater and sludge treatment represent a relatively new and still growing technology.

An increasing amount of waste is generated each year from textiles and their production.

This book presents information on the origin and distribution of microplastics, evaluates the methods of their detection, documents their interactions with natural systems, and analyzes the current understanding of their management.

This book covers the latest advances in sustainable waste management and focuses on its implementation to mitigate water and air pollution, recycle and reuse raw material, and refine valuable metals.

Food wastage has become a major problem with about one third of all food produced for human consumption going to waste, leading to major socioeconomic and environmental consequences in an increasingly resource-constrained world.

We are proposing this comprehensive volume aimed at bridging and bonding of the theory and practical experiences for the elimination of a broad range of pollutants from various types of water and soil utilizing innovative nanotechnologies, biotechnologies and their possible combinations.

The management of waste is a sensitive issue which affects everyone all over the globe.

The enduring changes in the aquatic environment and the increasing influx of contaminants call for novel conceptual and methodological approaches to relating chemical pollution and ecological alterations in ecosystems.

This book mainly investigates the adsorption of anionic diclofenac sodium on natural clay minerals, the adsorption of anionic chloramphenicol on natural clay minerals and the behavior of surface and interface modification or adsorption on clay minerals.

Industrial ecology (IE) is a rapidly growing scienti?

This volume highlights the latest advances, innovations, and applications related to membrane technologies for water and wastewater treatment as presented by leading researchers at the 7th IWA Regional Membrane Technology Conference (IWA-RMTC), held in Palermo, Italy on June 18-21, 2024.

This book examines how discarded marble heaps can be repurposed, in situ, to breathe new life into the landscape, offering solutions that are as innovative as they are practical and sustainable.

Dredged Material and Mine Tailings are two of the same thing once they are deposited on land: they must be safe-guarded, wash-out must be prevented, and they must be protected by a plantcover.

This proposed book chapter is expected to provide the readers with wide aspects of green technologies for industrial waste remediation.

This book shows how the use of biodegradable plastics in agriculture can have a profound positive impact on plasticulture.

The book covers novel technologies, including high pressure, antimicrobials, and electromagnetism, and their impact.

This book critically evaluates recently investigated feedstock for biofuels production.

This volume is a compilation on issues related to sustainable practices in geo-environmental engineering, particularly as applying to developing nations such as India.

Assure the safety of your food products by adopting HACCP.

This volume compiles topics from the REWAS 2013 symposium at the TMS Annual Meeting, focusing on different aspects of sustainability.

This book is not designed to be an exhaustive work on mine wastes.

This book offers valuable insights into the principles, mechanisms of action and applications of traditional and novel enzymes involved in the degradation of wastes.

Life Cycle Costing (LCC) is a well-known and popular method to evaluate the economic sustainability, which as the term implies is structured on the life cycle of a product or process.

This book addresses a complex issue - water sustainability - that requires a combined approach to manage both water and energy.

Dieses Buch gibt einen Überblick über den Umgang mit radioaktiven Reststoffen.

Recycling and Deinking of Recovered Paper, Second Edition covers recent advances in recycling technologies.

This book presents electrochemical water treatment methods, which offer ways to find more sustainable solutions.

This book presents the coupled Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical-Chemical (THMC) processes in fractured rocks at varying scales from single fractures to fracture networks.

Die erfolgreiche Einführung stellt die Probleme im Umweltbereich aus ganzheitlicher Sicht und auf dem aktuellen Wissensstand dar.

Both the beauty and interest of fractures and fracture networks are easy to grasp, since they are abundant in nature.

This book discusses modern technologies for utilizing various types of agricultural waste as a direct means of properly managing its abundance.

The zone where land and sea meet is composed of a variety of complex environments.

This book provides an overview of the lastest developments in biobased materials and their applications in food packaging.

This book presents peer-reviewed papers of the 2022 10th International Conference on Environment Pollution and Prevention (ICEPP 2022), which was held in Sydney, Australia, during December 16-18, 2022.

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 places the main actors in environmental microbiology, namely the microorganisms, on center stage.

This proceedings book of ICES 2023 presents the most recent studies on environmental sciences and environmental sustainability, which contributes to the resolution of environmental issues (air pollution, water pollution, soil pollution, noise pollution, thermal pollution, radioactive pollution, light pollution, and global warming).

Africa is endowed with rich land and water resources, which significantly contribute to the development of many economies on the continent.