Advanced Organic Waste Management
Sustainable Practices and Approaches
- 1st Edition - January 6, 2022
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Editors: Subrata Hait, Chaudhery Mustansar Hussain
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 8 5 7 9 2 - 5
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 0 9 3 1 - 0
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Request a sales quoteAdvanced Organic Waste Management: Sustainable Practices and Approaches provides an integrated holistic approach to the challenges associated with organic waste management, particularly related to sustainability, lifecycle assessment, emerging regulations, and novel approaches for resource and energy recovery. In addition to traditional techniques, such as anaerobic digestion, composting, innovative and emerging techniques of waste recycling like hydrothermal carbonization and vermicomposting are included. The book combines the fundamentals and practices of sustainable organic waste management with successful case studies from developed and developing countries, highlighting practical applications and challenges.
Sections cover global organic waste generation, encompassing sources and types, composition and characteristics, focus on technical aspects related to various resource recovery techniques like composting and vermicomposting, cover various waste-to-energy technologies, illustrate various environmental management tools for organic waste, present innovative organic waste management practices and strategies complemented by detailed case studies, introduce the circular bioeconomy approach, and more.
- Presents the fundamentals and practices of sustainable, organic waste management, with emerging regulations and up-to-date analysis on environmental management tools such as lifecycle assessment in a comprehensive manner
- Offers the latest information on novel concepts and strategies for organic waste management, particularly zero waste and the circular bioeconomy
- Includes the latest research findings and future perspectives of innovative and emerging techniques of waste recycling, such as hydrothermal carbonization and vermicomposting
Researchers and postgraduates in environmental science and environmental engineering. Policymakers and practitioners in waste management
PART 1: Organic Waste: Generation, Composition, and Health Hazards
1. Organic waste: generation, composition and valorisation
2. Open dumping of organic waste: Associated fire, environmental pollution and health hazards
PART 2: Resource Recovery from Organic Waste
3. Composting and vermicomposting: Process optimization for the management of organic waste . .
4. Composting techniques: utilization of organic wastes in urban areas of Indian cities . .
5. Challenges and opportunities for disposal of floral waste in developing countries by using composting method
6. Valorization of industrial solid waste through novel biological treatment methods – integrating different composting techniques
7. Vermicomposting of organic wastes by earthworms: Making wealth from waste by converting ‘garbage into gold’ for farmers
8. Current problems of vermistabilization as a sustainable strategy for recycling of excess sludge
9. Recent advances in composting and vermicomposting techniques in the cold region: resource recovery, challenges, and way forwar
10. Resource recovery and value addition of terrestrial weeds through vermicomposting
11. Composting and vermicomposting of obnoxious weeds - A novel approach for the degradation of allelochemicals
12. Vermicomposting and bioconversion approaches towards the sustainable utilization of palm oil mill waste
PART 3: Energy Recovery from Organic Waste
13. Composition, characteristics and challenges of OFMSW for biogas production: Influence of mechanism and operating parameters to improve digestion process
14. Factors affecting anaerobic digestion for biogas production: a review
15. Recent advancements in anaerobic digestion: A novel approche for waste to energy
16. Solid state anaerobic digestion of organic waste for the generation of biogas and bio manure
17. Use of petroleum refinery sludge for the production of biogas as an alternative energy source: a review
18. A review on hydrothermal pretreatment of sewage sludge: energy recovery options and major challenges
19. Bioreactor landfills: sustainable solution for disposal of municipal solid waste
PART 4: Environmental Management Tools for Organic Waste
20. An approach for integrating sustainable development goals (SDGs) through organic waste management
21. Application of remote sensing and GIS in integrated solid waste management - a short review
PART 5: Innovative Management Practices for Organic Waste
22. Circular system of resource recovery and reverse logistics approach: key to zero waste and zero landfill
23. Sustainable waste management approach: A paradigm shift towards zero waste into landfills
24. Current trends and future challenges in smart waste management in smart cities
25. Smart waste management practices in smart cities: Current trends and future perspectives
26. Waste management of rural slaughterhouses in developing countries
PART 6: Circular Bioeconomy in Organic Waste Management
27. An emerging trend in waste management of COVID-19
28. Implications of COVID-19 pandemic on waste management practices: Challenges, opportunities, and strategies towards sustainability
- Edition: 1
- Published: January 6, 2022
- No. of pages (Paperback): 520
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323857925
- eBook ISBN: 9780323909310
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Subrata Hait
Subrata Hait, Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India
Subrata Hait, PhD is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Patna, Bihar, India. His current research interests include waste treatment and resource recovery, solid and hazardous waste management, composting and vermicomposting of organic waste, e-waste management. He has authored many papers at his credit in various international journals in addition to several book chapters. Apart from serving as a reviewer for different international journals published by the leading publishers including Elsevier, Dr. Hait is serving as an Academic Editor of PLOS One and an Editorial Board Member of SN Applied Sciences.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Patna, IndiaCM
Chaudhery Mustansar Hussain
Chaudhery Mustansar Hussain is an Adjunct Professor and Director of Laboratories in the Department of Chemistry & Environmental Sciences at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Newark, New Jersey, United States. His research is focused on the applications of nanotechnology and advanced materials, environmental management, analytical chemistry, and other industries. Dr. Hussain is the author of numerous papers in peer-reviewed journals as well as a prolific author and editor in his research areas. He has published with Elsevier, the American Chemical Society, the Royal Society of Chemistry, John Wiley & Sons, CRC Press, and Springer.
Affiliations and expertise
Adjunct Professor and Director of Laboratories, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Newark, NJ, USARead Advanced Organic Waste Management on ScienceDirect