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Waste
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Author : Trevor M. Letcher
language : en
Publisher: Academic Press
Release Date : 2011-01-20
Waste written by Trevor M. Letcher and has been published by Academic Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-20 with Technology & Engineering categories.
Waste: A Handbook for Management gives the broadest, most complete coverage of waste in our society. The book examines a wide range of waste streams, including: Household waste (compostable material, paper, glass, textiles, household chemicals, plastic, water, and e-waste) Industrial waste (metals, building materials, tires, medical, batteries, hazardous mining, and nuclear) Societal waste (ocean, military, and space) The future of landfills and incinerators Covering all the issues related to waste in one volume helps lead to comparisons, synergistic solutions, and a more informed society. In addition, the book offers the best ways of managing waste problems through recycling, incineration, landfill and other processes. Co-author Daniel Vallero interviewed on NBC's Today show for a segment on recycling Scientific and non-biased overviews will assist scientists, technicians, engineers, and government leaders Covers all main types of waste, including household, industrial, and societal Strong focus on management and recycling provides solutions
Encyclopedia Of Consumption And Waste
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Author : Carl A. Zimring
language : en
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Release Date : 2012-02-27
Encyclopedia Of Consumption And Waste written by Carl A. Zimring and has been published by SAGE Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-27 with Science categories.
Archaeologists and anthropologists have long studied artifacts of refuse from the distant past as a portal into ancient civilizations, but examining what we throw away today tells a story in real time and becomes an important and useful tool for academic study. Trash is studied by behavioral scientists who use data compiled from the exploration of dumpsters to better understand our modern society and culture. Why does the average American household send 470 pounds of uneaten food to the garbage can on an annual basis? How do different societies around the world cope with their garbage in these troubled environmental times? How does our trash give insight into our attitudes about gender, class, religion, and art? The Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste explores the topic across multiple disciplines within the social sciences and ranges further to include business, consumerism, environmentalism, and marketing to comprise an outstanding reference for academic and public libraries.
Handbook Of Solid Waste Management
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Author : George Tchobanoglous
language : en
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
Release Date : 2002-06-22
Handbook Of Solid Waste Management written by George Tchobanoglous and has been published by McGraw Hill Professional this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-06-22 with Science categories.
In a world where waste incinerators are not an option and landfills are at over capacity, cities are hard pressed to find a solution to the problem of what to do with their solid waste. Handbook of Solid Waste Management, 2/e offers a solution. This handbook offers an integrated approach to the planning, design, and management of economical and environmentally responsible solid waste disposal system. Let twenty industry and government experts provide you with the tools to design a solid waste management system capable of disposing of waste in a cost-efficient and environmentally responsible manner. Focusing on the six primary functions of an integrated system--source reduction, toxicity reduction, recycling and reuse, composting, waste- to-energy combustion, and landfilling--they explore each technology and examine its problems, costs, and legal and social ramifications.
Waste
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Author : Kate O'Neill
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2019-09-04
Waste written by Kate O'Neill and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-04 with Science categories.
Waste is one of the planet’s last great resource frontiers. From furniture made from up-cycled wood to gold extracted from computer circuit boards, artisans and multinational corporations alike are finding ways to profit from waste while diverting materials from overcrowded landfills. Yet beyond these benefits, this “new” resource still poses serious risks to human health and the environment. In this unique book, Kate O’Neill traces the emergence of the global political economy of wastes over the past two decades. She explains how the emergence of waste governance initiatives and mechanisms can help us deal with both the risks and the opportunities associated with the hundreds of millions – possibly billions – of tons of waste we generate each year. Drawing on a range of fascinating case studies to develop her arguments, including China’s role as the primary recipient of recyclable plastics and scrap paper from the Western world, “Zero-Waste” initiatives, the emergence of transnational waste-pickers’ alliances, and alternatives for managing growing volumes of electronic and food wastes, O’Neill shows how waste can be a risk, a resource, and even a livelihood, with implications for governance at local, national, and global levels.
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Author : Catherine Coleman Flowers
language : en
Publisher: The New Press
Release Date : 2020-11-17
Waste written by Catherine Coleman Flowers and has been published by The New Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-17 with Social Science categories.
The MacArthur grant–winning environmental justice activist’s riveting memoir of a life fighting for a cleaner future for America’s most vulnerable A Smithsonian Magazine Top Ten Best Science Book of 2020 Catherine Coleman Flowers, a 2020 MacArthur “genius,” grew up in Lowndes County, Alabama, a place that’s been called “Bloody Lowndes” because of its violent, racist history. Once the epicenter of the voting rights struggle, today it’s Ground Zero for a new movement that is also Flowers’s life’s work—a fight to ensure human dignity through a right most Americans take for granted: basic sanitation. Too many people, especially the rural poor, lack an affordable means of disposing cleanly of the waste from their toilets and, as a consequence, live amid filth. Flowers calls this America’s dirty secret. In this “powerful and moving book” (Booklist), she tells the story of systemic class, racial, and geographic prejudice that foster Third World conditions not just in Alabama, but across America, in Appalachia, Central California, coastal Florida, Alaska, the urban Midwest, and on Native American reservations in the West. In this inspiring story of the evolution of an activist, from country girl to student civil rights organizer to environmental justice champion at Bryan Stevenson’s Equal Justice Initiative, Flowers shows how sanitation is becoming too big a problem to ignore as climate change brings sewage to more backyards—not only those of poor minorities.
Modern Solid Waste Management In Practice
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Author : Anna Bernstad Saraiva Schott
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2013-12-17
Modern Solid Waste Management In Practice written by Anna Bernstad Saraiva Schott and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-17 with Business & Economics categories.
This book focuses on sustainable solid waste management in an urban context and gives an example of how a modern city can work with waste management for increased sustainability in close cooperation with the academy. The book describes challenges which the city is facing and presents a case on how these can be tackled based on several research and development projects performed in the City of Malmö over the last decade. In these projects, the city has worked as a test bed for new solutions, developed with and evaluated by the university. The projects and evaluations of the same have been developed with a multi-dimensional approach; including technical aspects, resource efficiency, economic parameters, information strategies towards households and user friendliness. Methods used for evaluation are presented in a comprehensive way together with a discussion on how results from performed evaluations have affected the solid waste management policy making in the city. The book describes a bridging over a commonly noticed gap between research on the one hand and policy making and technical management on the other. Several examples are given on how academy and real life and full-scale developments in the city can have a fruit-full collaboration, where feed-back from evaluation of made changes are used for continuous improvements – at the same time as the actual needs from the city forces the academy to develop new methods for evaluations and develop new solutions to previously un-known or un-addressed problems.
50 Faqs On Waste Management Second Edition
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Author : Taru Mehta
language : en
Publisher: The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)
Release Date : 2021-06-01
50 Faqs On Waste Management Second Edition written by Taru Mehta and has been published by The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-01 with Technology & Engineering categories.
What is municipal solid waste? What is e-waste? What is biomedical waste? How did people manage waste in ancient times? Who are ragpickers and how do they help in waste disposal? What is vermicomposting? What are the negative effects of unmanaged waste? Know the answers to these, and 43 more frequently asked questions, on waste and its management, its various aspects, and impacts Other titles in this series: 50 FAQs on Air Pollution (ISBN: 9788174686514) 50 FAQS on Climate Change (ISBN: 9788179936917) 50 FAQs on Global Warming (ISBN: 9788179936986) 50 FAQs on Renewable Energy (ISBN: 9788179936900) 50 FAQs on Water Pollution (ISBN: 9788179936924) Table of Contents: Waste / Source of waste / Types of waste / Biodegradable and non biodegradable waste / Importance of waste management / Per capita waste generation / Properties of solid waste / Chemical properties of solid waste / Municipal solid waste / Treatment of municipal solid waste / India law for MSW management / Biomedical waste / Treatment of biomedical waste / India law for biomedical waste management / Hazardous waste / Treatment of hazardous waste / Laws for hazardous waste management / E-waste / Treatment of e-waste / Law for e-waste management / Inert waste / Waste management in ancient times / Integrated solid waste management / Waste management hierarchy / Waste segregation / Three Rs / Aerobic and anaerobic digestion / Composting / Vermicomposting / Landfills / Impact of landfills / Negative effects of unmanaged waste / Role of scrap collectors / Ragpickers / Waste-to-energy / Waste-to-energy plants / Gobar gas / Syngas / Great Pacific Garbage Patch / Life cycle assessment / Sanitary landfill / Circular economy / Sustainable Development Goals / SDGs linked to waste management / Shopping / Consumerism / Swachh Bharat Mission / Plastic Man of India / Plastic roads / Waste to Wonder Park
Waste Trading Among Rich Nations
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Author : Kate O'Neill
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2000-06-19
Waste Trading Among Rich Nations written by Kate O'Neill and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-06-19 with Science categories.
When most people think of hazardous waste trading, they think of egregious dumping by U.S. and European firms on poor countries in Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean. But over 80 percent of the waste trade takes place between industrialized nations and is legal by domestic and international standards. In Waste Trading among Rich Nations, Kate O'Neill asks why some industrialized nations voluntarily import such wastes in the absence of pressing economic need. She focuses on Britain as an importer and Germany as an exporter and also looks at France, Australia, and Japan. According to O'Neill, most important in determining whether an industrialized democracy imports waste are two aspects of its regulatory system. The first is the structure of the regulatory process—how powers and responsibilities are allocated among different agencies and levels of government—and the structure of the hazardous waste disposal industry. The second is what O'Neill calls the "style" of environmental regulation, in particular access to the policy process and mode of implementation. Hazardous waste management is in crisis in most industrialized countries and is becoming increasingly controversial in international negotiations. O'Neill not only examines waste trading empirically but also develops a theoretical model of comparative regulation that can be used to establish links between domestic and international environmental politics.
Reducing Waste
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Author : Anne Flounders
language : en
Publisher: Red Chair Press
Release Date : 2014-01-01
Reducing Waste written by Anne Flounders and has been published by Red Chair Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-01 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
You know the 3Rs: reduce, reuse, and recycle. But what does it really mean and why is it important to cut back on waste? Each year, businesses and homes in the United States throw away enough garbage to equal 251 million elephants. Where would we keep that many elephants? More to the point, where does all that garbage go? Discover why waste is creating problems for Earth and how you can reduce, reuse, and recycle now. Book features: Table of Contents; Glossary; For More Information including books and web sites; Index; photos and captions; charts and graphs; source notes.
Recycling And The Politics Of Urban Waste
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Author : Matthew Gandy
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 1994
Recycling And The Politics Of Urban Waste written by Matthew Gandy and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Environmental policy categories.
First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.