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Waste

A Handbook for Management

Waste: A Handbook for Management, Second Edition, provides information on a wide range of hot topics and developing areas, such as hydraulic fracturing, microplastics, waste man… Read more

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Waste: A Handbook for Management, Second Edition, provides information on a wide range of hot topics and developing areas, such as hydraulic fracturing, microplastics, waste management in developing countries, and waste-exposure-outcome pathways. Beginning with an overview of the current waste landscape, including green engineering, processing principles and regulations, the book then outlines waste streams and treatment methods for over 25 different types of waste and reviews best practices and management, challenges for developing countries, risk assessment, contaminant pathways and risk tradeoffs.

With an overall focus on waste recovery, reuse, prevention and lifecycle analysis, the book draws on the experience of an international team of expert contributors to provide reliable guidance on how best to manage wastes for scientists, managers, engineers and policymakers in both the private and public sectors.

Key features

  • Covers the assessment and treatment of different waste streams in a single book
  • Provides a hands-on report on each type of waste problem as written by an expert in the field
  • Highlights new findings and evolving problems in waste management via discussion boxes

Readership

Scientists, engineers, legislators and collaborators in all areas of waste management, including environmental scientists and engineers in both academia and industry, government officials, waste managers, technicians, and maintenance personnel

Table of contents

A. INTRODUCTION

1. Introduction to Waste Management
Daniel A. Vallero and Valerie Shulman

2. A Systems Approach to Waste Management
Daniel A. Vallero

3. Regulation of Wastes
Daniel A. Vallero

4. Waste Collection
Daniel A. Vallero

5. Waste and Biogeochemical Cycling
Daniel A. Vallero

B. WASTE STREAMS (and their treatment)

6. Mine Waste: A Brief Overview of Origins, Quantities, and Methods of Storage
Daniel A. Vallero and Geoffrey Blight

7. Coal Waste Streams
Daniel A. Vallero

8. Effect of Waste on Ecosystems
Daniel A. Vallero

9. Oil and Gas Exploration and Production Wastes
Daniel A. Vallero

10. Metal Waste
Thomas Pretz, Jörg Julius, Nicolas Go, Marcel Bosling, Kay Johnen and Alexander Feil

11. Radioactive Waste Management
Ronald A. Palmer

12. The Municipal Landfill
Daniel A. Vallero

13. Wastewater
Daniel A. Vallero

14. Recovered Paper
Gary M. Scott

15. Glass Waste
Paul Hooper and John H. Butler

16. End-of-life textiles
Andreas Bartl

17. Chemicals in Waste: Household Hazardous Waste
Trevor M. Letcher and Rebecca Slack

18. Reusing Non-hazardous Industrial Waste Across Business Clusters
Marian Chertow and Jooyoung Park

19. Current and emerging construction waste management status, trends and approaches
Mohamed Osmani and Paola Villoria- Sáez

20. Thermal Waste
Daniel A. Vallero

21. Microplastics: emerging contaminants requiring multilevel management
Natalie Welden

22. Marine Plastic Pollution: other than micro-plastic
Richard C. Thompson and Imogen E. Napper

23. Plastic Waste: How Plastic has become Part of the Earth’s Geological Cycle
Jan Zalasiewicz, Sarah Gabbott and Colin Waters

24. Air Pollution: Atmospheric Wastes
Daniel A. Vallero

25. Waste: Electrical and Electronic Equipment
Ruediger Kuehr

26. Tyre Recycling
Valerie L. Shulman

27. Medical Waste
Anne Woolridge and Selin Hoboy

28. Agricultural Waste and Pollution
Andrew Green

29. Waste from Military Operations
Victor Medina, Edith Martinez-Guerra and Stephen Cosper

30. Space waste
Stephen Hobbs, Gene Stansbery, Tiago Matos de Carvalho

31. Hazardous Waste
Daniel A. Vallero

32. Land Pollution
Daniel J. Vallero, and Daniel A. Vallero

C. BEST PRACTICE AND MANAGEMENT

33. Waste Governance
Daniel A. Vallero

34. Waste Constituent Pathways
Daniel A. Vallero

35. Waste Management Accountability: Risk, Reliability and Resilience
Daniel A. Vallero

36. Evaluating the feasibility of Public Projects
Daniel A. Vallero

Product details

About the editors

TL

Trevor Letcher

Professor Trevor Letcher is an Emeritus Professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, and living in the United Kingdom. He was previously Professor of Chemistry, and Head of Department, at the University of the Witwatersrand, Rhodes University, and Natal, in South Africa (1969-2004). He has published over 300 papers on areas such as chemical thermodynamic and waste from landfill in peer reviewed journals, and 100 papers in popular science and education journals. Prof. Letcher has edited and/or written 32 major books, of which 22 were published by Elsevier, on topics ranging from future energy, climate change, storing energy, waste, tyre waste and recycling, wind energy, solar energy, managing global warming, plastic waste, renewable energy, and environmental disasters. He has been awarded gold medals by the South African Institute of Chemistry and the South African Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics honoured him with a Festschrift in 2018. He is a life member of both the Royal Society of Chemistry (London) and the South African Institute of Chemistry. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics, and is a Director of the Board of the International Association of Chemical Thermodynamics since 2002.
Affiliations and expertise
Emeritus Professor, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

DV

Daniel A. Vallero

Professor Daniel A. Vallero is a renowned environmental scientist and engineer with four decades of experience. He has advised U.S. government agencies on critical issues like PBTs, climate change, acid rain, and chemical risks. At Duke University, he led the Engineering Ethics program and taught courses on air pollution, sustainable design, and ethics. Vallero has served on the National Academy of Engineering’s Online Ethics Committee and the National Institute of Engineering Ethics. An expert in emerging technologies, he focuses on societal, ethical, and public health challenges related to nanotechnology and environmental biotechnology. His work also encompasses emergency response and homeland security, making him a leading voice in environmental risk and ethics.
Affiliations and expertise
Full Adjunct Professor, Pratt School of Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Duke University, USA

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