Waste
A Handbook for Management
- 3rd Edition - November 1, 2026
- Latest edition
- Editors: Trevor Letcher, Daniel A. Vallero
- Language: English
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Description
Description
Waste: A Handbook for Management, Third Edition, presents updated information on the latest advancements in waste management, emphasizing sustainable practices and innovative technologies. This edition introduces new chapters on emerging issues, including food waste management and waste from renewable energy infrastructure, ensuring that readers are equipped with the tools necessary to develop sustainable waste management strategies. This book covers topics such as best practice and management of waste, regulation of waste streams, waste collection, and bioengineering. Readers will also find detailed discussions in each chapter on health aspects, waste prevention and reuse, emission pathways, collection and transport, sustainability and life cycle, the ecological effects of waste, and community involvement. Contributions from leading experts in the field are featured, ensuring that readers have access to reliable guidance on managing diverse waste streams.
Key features
Key features
- Highlights an extensive range of topics related to waste management, with chapters authored by world-renowned experts
- Includes a new section dedicated to future trends in waste management, as well as advanced technologies and macro-scale issues, equipping readers with insights into the direction of waste management practices
- Offers detailed discussions in each chapter on critical aspects of waste management, including health impacts, waste prevention and reuse, emission pathways, collection and transport, sustainability, ecological effects, and community involvement
Readership
Readership
Scientists, engineers, students, and professionals interested in environmental science and waste management
Table of contents
Table of contents
A. INTRODUCTION
1. Introduction to Waste Management
Daniel A. Vallero (editor)
2. A Systems Approach to Waste Management
Daniel A. Vallero (editor)
3. Regulation of Wastes
Daniel A. Vallero (editor)
4. Waste Collection
Daniel A. Vallero (editor)
5. Waste and Biogeochemical Cycling
Daniel A. Vallero (editor)
B. WASTE STREAMS (and their treatment)
6. Mine Waste: A Brief Overview of Origins, Quantities, and Methods of Storage
Daniel A. Vallero (editor) and Geoffrey Blight( Professor Emeritus, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa)
7. Remnants of Coal Combustion, Ash Pits
Daniel A. Vallero (editor)
8. Effect of Waste on Ecosystems
Daniel A. Vallero (editor)
9. Oil and Gas Exploration and Production Waste
Daniel A. Vallero (editor)
10. Metal Waste
Thomas Pretz (Department of Processing and Recycling, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany), Jörg Julius (Department of Processing and Recycling, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany), Nicolas Go (Department of Processing and Recycling, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany), Marcel Bosling (Department of Processing and Recycling, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany), Kay Johnen (Department of Processing and Recycling, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany), and Alexander Feil (Department of Processing and Recycling, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany)
11. Radioactive Waste Management
Ronald A. Palmer (Consultant, Scottsdale, AZ, United States)
12. The Municipal Landfill
Daniel A. Vallero (editor)
13. Wastewater
Daniel A. Vallero (editor)
14. Recovered Paper
Gary M. Scott (Department of Paper and Bioprocess Engineering, State University of New York, College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, NY, United States)
15. Glass Waste
Paul Hooper (Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, United Kingdom ) and John H. Butler (Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, United Kingdom)
16. End-of-Life Textiles
Andreas Bartl (Institute of Chemical, Environmental & Biological Engineering, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria)
17. Current and emerging construction waste management status, trends and approaches
Mohamed Osmani (School of Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering, Loughborough University, Loughborough, United Kingdom) and Paola Villoria- Sáez (School of Building Construction, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain)
18. Thermal Waste
Daniel A. Vallero (editor)
19. Microplastics: emerging contaminants requiring multilevel management
Natalie Welden (School of Biological Sciences, Portsmouth University, Portsmouth, United Kingdom)
20. How Plastic has become Part of the Geological Cycle on Earth
Jan Zalasiewicz (School of Geography, Geology and the Environment, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom), Mark Williams, Sarah Gabbott (School of Geography, Geology and the Environment, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom ), and Colin Waters (School of Geography, Geology and the Environment, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom)
21. Air Pollution: Atmospheric Wastes
Daniel A. Vallero (editor)
22. Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment
Ruediger Kuehr (United Nations University—Vice Rectorate in Europe, Sustainable Cycles (SCYCLE) Programme, Bonn, Germany)
23. Tire Recycling
Valerie L. Shulman (The European Tyre Recycling Association (ETRA), Brussels, Belgium) and Serji Amirkhanian (Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, Tuscaloosa, United States)
24. Medical Waste
Anne Woolridge (Independent Safety Services Limited, Globe Works, Sheffield, United Kingdom) and Selin Hoboy (Legislative and Regulatory Affairs, Stericycle, Inc., Atlanta, GA, United States)
25. Agricultural Waste and Pollution
Andrew Green (Agriculture & Environment Research Unit, Department of Biological & Environmental Sciences, School of Life & Medical Sciences, University of Hertfordshire, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom)
26. Waste from Military Operations
Victor Medina (Engineer Research and Development Center—U.S. Army, Vicksburg, MS, United States) and Edith Martinez-Guerra (Engineer Research and Development Center—U.S. Army, Vicksburg, MS, United States)
27. Space waste
Stephen Hobbs (Cranfield University, Cranfield, United Kingdom), Gene Stansbery (NASA Orbital Debris Program Office, NASA, Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, United States), Tiago Matos de Carvalho (Cranfield University, Cranfield, United Kingdom)
28. Hazardous Waste Cleanup
Daniel A. Vallero (editor)
29. Land Pollution
Daniel A. Vallero (editor)
30. Food Waste
TBD
31. Waste From Reneweable Energy Infrastructure
TBD
C. BEST PRACTICE AND MANAGEMENT
32. Waste Governance
Daniel A. Vallero (editor)
33. Philosophy of Waste Management
Daniel A. Vallero (editor)
34. Waste Constituent Pathways
TBD
35. Waste Management Accountability: Risk, Reliability and Resilience
Daniel A. Vallero (editor)
36. Evaluating the Feasibility of Public Projects
Daniel A. Vallero (editor)
D. THE FUTURE
37. Advanced waste management technologies
Daniel A. Vallero (editor)
38. Macro-scale waste issues
Daniel A. Vallero (editor)
Appendix: Glossary of Waste Terms Appendix: Abbreviations and Symbols
1. Introduction to Waste Management
Daniel A. Vallero (editor)
2. A Systems Approach to Waste Management
Daniel A. Vallero (editor)
3. Regulation of Wastes
Daniel A. Vallero (editor)
4. Waste Collection
Daniel A. Vallero (editor)
5. Waste and Biogeochemical Cycling
Daniel A. Vallero (editor)
B. WASTE STREAMS (and their treatment)
6. Mine Waste: A Brief Overview of Origins, Quantities, and Methods of Storage
Daniel A. Vallero (editor) and Geoffrey Blight( Professor Emeritus, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa)
7. Remnants of Coal Combustion, Ash Pits
Daniel A. Vallero (editor)
8. Effect of Waste on Ecosystems
Daniel A. Vallero (editor)
9. Oil and Gas Exploration and Production Waste
Daniel A. Vallero (editor)
10. Metal Waste
Thomas Pretz (Department of Processing and Recycling, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany), Jörg Julius (Department of Processing and Recycling, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany), Nicolas Go (Department of Processing and Recycling, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany), Marcel Bosling (Department of Processing and Recycling, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany), Kay Johnen (Department of Processing and Recycling, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany), and Alexander Feil (Department of Processing and Recycling, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany)
11. Radioactive Waste Management
Ronald A. Palmer (Consultant, Scottsdale, AZ, United States)
12. The Municipal Landfill
Daniel A. Vallero (editor)
13. Wastewater
Daniel A. Vallero (editor)
14. Recovered Paper
Gary M. Scott (Department of Paper and Bioprocess Engineering, State University of New York, College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, NY, United States)
15. Glass Waste
Paul Hooper (Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, United Kingdom ) and John H. Butler (Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, United Kingdom)
16. End-of-Life Textiles
Andreas Bartl (Institute of Chemical, Environmental & Biological Engineering, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria)
17. Current and emerging construction waste management status, trends and approaches
Mohamed Osmani (School of Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering, Loughborough University, Loughborough, United Kingdom) and Paola Villoria- Sáez (School of Building Construction, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain)
18. Thermal Waste
Daniel A. Vallero (editor)
19. Microplastics: emerging contaminants requiring multilevel management
Natalie Welden (School of Biological Sciences, Portsmouth University, Portsmouth, United Kingdom)
20. How Plastic has become Part of the Geological Cycle on Earth
Jan Zalasiewicz (School of Geography, Geology and the Environment, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom), Mark Williams, Sarah Gabbott (School of Geography, Geology and the Environment, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom ), and Colin Waters (School of Geography, Geology and the Environment, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom)
21. Air Pollution: Atmospheric Wastes
Daniel A. Vallero (editor)
22. Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment
Ruediger Kuehr (United Nations University—Vice Rectorate in Europe, Sustainable Cycles (SCYCLE) Programme, Bonn, Germany)
23. Tire Recycling
Valerie L. Shulman (The European Tyre Recycling Association (ETRA), Brussels, Belgium) and Serji Amirkhanian (Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, Tuscaloosa, United States)
24. Medical Waste
Anne Woolridge (Independent Safety Services Limited, Globe Works, Sheffield, United Kingdom) and Selin Hoboy (Legislative and Regulatory Affairs, Stericycle, Inc., Atlanta, GA, United States)
25. Agricultural Waste and Pollution
Andrew Green (Agriculture & Environment Research Unit, Department of Biological & Environmental Sciences, School of Life & Medical Sciences, University of Hertfordshire, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom)
26. Waste from Military Operations
Victor Medina (Engineer Research and Development Center—U.S. Army, Vicksburg, MS, United States) and Edith Martinez-Guerra (Engineer Research and Development Center—U.S. Army, Vicksburg, MS, United States)
27. Space waste
Stephen Hobbs (Cranfield University, Cranfield, United Kingdom), Gene Stansbery (NASA Orbital Debris Program Office, NASA, Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, United States), Tiago Matos de Carvalho (Cranfield University, Cranfield, United Kingdom)
28. Hazardous Waste Cleanup
Daniel A. Vallero (editor)
29. Land Pollution
Daniel A. Vallero (editor)
30. Food Waste
TBD
31. Waste From Reneweable Energy Infrastructure
TBD
C. BEST PRACTICE AND MANAGEMENT
32. Waste Governance
Daniel A. Vallero (editor)
33. Philosophy of Waste Management
Daniel A. Vallero (editor)
34. Waste Constituent Pathways
TBD
35. Waste Management Accountability: Risk, Reliability and Resilience
Daniel A. Vallero (editor)
36. Evaluating the Feasibility of Public Projects
Daniel A. Vallero (editor)
D. THE FUTURE
37. Advanced waste management technologies
Daniel A. Vallero (editor)
38. Macro-scale waste issues
Daniel A. Vallero (editor)
Appendix: Glossary of Waste Terms Appendix: Abbreviations and Symbols
Product details
Product details
- Edition: 3
- Latest edition
- Published: November 1, 2026
- Language: English
About the editors
About the editors
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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 AfricaDV
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