Solid Waste Management
Foundations, Recycling Pathways, and Sustainable Practices
- 1st Edition - May 1, 2026
- Latest edition
- Editors: Zhao Youcai, Tao Zhou
- Language: English
Treatment and Recycling of Solid Waste provides an introduction to the six types of waste, including municipal and rural solid waste, construction and demolition waste, hazard… Read more
Treatment and Recycling of Solid Waste provides an introduction to the six types of waste, including municipal and rural solid waste, construction and demolition waste, hazardous waste, industrial waste, electric and electronic waste, and sewage sludge. These types of waste are discussed, along with treatment and recycling technologies, such as pretreatment, reuse and recycling, anaerobic digestion, aerobic compositing, incineration for power, pyrolysis, and sanitary landfill. The book focuses on pollution control and resource utilization and describes combining process design principles with application examples to comprehensively describe various methods, principles, processes, new technologies, new methods, and new theories.
- Presents a full description of pollution control and resource recovery
- Provides the state-of-the-art textbook on ecological civilization, sustainable development, and engineering innovation
- Strives to objectively reflect the actual needs of engineering applications so that readers can quickly and comprehensively grasp and apply relevant processing technologies
Undergraduate and postgraduate students, researchers, engineers and technicians interested in solid waste
Part I Introduction to solid waste
1. Definition and scope of solid waste
2. Introduction to treatment and recycling processes of solid waste
3. Artificial intelligent application for treatment and recycling of solid waste Questions and answers
Part II Treatment and recycling of municipal and rural solid waste
4. Collection and transportation of municipal and rural solid waste
5. Sorting and recycling of municipal and rural solid waste
6. Anaerobic digestion of organic waste
7. Aerobic composting of organic waste
8. Pyrolysis of organic waste
9. Incineration for power of municipal and rural solid waste
10. Sustainable sanitary landfill for municipal and rural solid waste Questions and answers
Part III Treatment and recycling of construction and demolition waste
11. Sorting and classification of construction and demolition waste
12. Detoxification of polluted industrial-origin construction and demolition waste
13. Pretreatment of construction and demolition waste
14. Recycling of construction and demolition waste Questions and answers
Part IV Treatment and recycling of hazardous waste
15. Identification of hazardous waste
16. Detoxification of hazardous waste
17. Pretreatment of hazardous waste
18. Recycling of hazardous waste
19. Incineration of hazardous waste
20. Security landfill of hazardous waste
21. Treatment of health care waste Questions and answers
Part V Treatment and recycling of industrial waste
22. Pretreatment of industrial waste
23. Recycling of industrial waste
24. Landfill of industrial waste Questions and answers
Part VI Treatment and recycling of electric and electronic waste
25. Source and classification of electric and electronic waste
26. Pretreatment of electric and electronic waste
27. Reuse and recycling of electric and electronic waste Questions and answers
Part VII Treatment and recycling of sewage sludge
28. Conditioning and dewatering of sewage sludge
29. Anaerobic digestion of sewage sludge
30. Aerobic composting of sewage sludge
31. Pyrolysis of sewage sludge
32. Drying and incineration of sewage sludge
33. Sustainable sanitary landfill for sewage sludge Questions and answers
1. Definition and scope of solid waste
2. Introduction to treatment and recycling processes of solid waste
3. Artificial intelligent application for treatment and recycling of solid waste Questions and answers
Part II Treatment and recycling of municipal and rural solid waste
4. Collection and transportation of municipal and rural solid waste
5. Sorting and recycling of municipal and rural solid waste
6. Anaerobic digestion of organic waste
7. Aerobic composting of organic waste
8. Pyrolysis of organic waste
9. Incineration for power of municipal and rural solid waste
10. Sustainable sanitary landfill for municipal and rural solid waste Questions and answers
Part III Treatment and recycling of construction and demolition waste
11. Sorting and classification of construction and demolition waste
12. Detoxification of polluted industrial-origin construction and demolition waste
13. Pretreatment of construction and demolition waste
14. Recycling of construction and demolition waste Questions and answers
Part IV Treatment and recycling of hazardous waste
15. Identification of hazardous waste
16. Detoxification of hazardous waste
17. Pretreatment of hazardous waste
18. Recycling of hazardous waste
19. Incineration of hazardous waste
20. Security landfill of hazardous waste
21. Treatment of health care waste Questions and answers
Part V Treatment and recycling of industrial waste
22. Pretreatment of industrial waste
23. Recycling of industrial waste
24. Landfill of industrial waste Questions and answers
Part VI Treatment and recycling of electric and electronic waste
25. Source and classification of electric and electronic waste
26. Pretreatment of electric and electronic waste
27. Reuse and recycling of electric and electronic waste Questions and answers
Part VII Treatment and recycling of sewage sludge
28. Conditioning and dewatering of sewage sludge
29. Anaerobic digestion of sewage sludge
30. Aerobic composting of sewage sludge
31. Pyrolysis of sewage sludge
32. Drying and incineration of sewage sludge
33. Sustainable sanitary landfill for sewage sludge Questions and answers
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: May 1, 2026
- Language: English
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Zhao Youcai
Zhao Youcai, is currently a professor of environmental engineering at School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University. He got bachelor degree from Sichuan University (1984) and Ph.D. from Institute of Chemical Metallurgy (now Institute of Process Engineering), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing (1989). After finished Post-doctoral research work at Fudan University, Shanghai, he joined in Tongji University in 1991. Meanwhile, he had ever worked at Aristotle University, Greece, National University of Singapore, Tulane University, USA, and Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland, for 4 years as research fellow or visiting professor. He had authored or co-authored 200 publications published in peer-reviewed internationally recognized journals, 480 publications in China journals, authored 9 English books (at Elsevier and Springer) and authored or co-authored 98 Chinese books (as an author or Editor-in-chief), 4 textbooks for undergraduate, graduate and PhD students with a fourth edition of undergraduate textbook (in Chinese). Currently, his research interests include treatment and recycling of municipal and rural solid waste, construction and demolition waste, hazardous waste, industrial waste, electric and electronic waste, and sewage sludge, and polluted soil.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Environmental Engineering, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University,TZ
Tao Zhou
Zhou Tao is currently assistant research fellow of environmental engineering at School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University. He received his bachelor degree in Environmental Engineering from Guangxi University, China in 2014 and his Ph D from Tongji University, China in 2019. He has authored or co-authored 42 peer-reviewed international papers, 15 Chinese papers, and 4 invited book chapters, 2 English book (Elsevier). His principal research interests lie in treatment and resource recovery of municipal and rural as well as industrial solid wastes.
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Research Fellow, Environmental Engineering, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University, China