Books in Waste management

Circular Plastics Economy

1st Edition
November 1, 2025
Pooja Ghosh + 4 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Circular Plastics Economy: A Multidisciplinary Perspective provides an understanding of the complex issues surrounding plastic waste management, including environmental challenges, risks associated with microplastic contamination, and the detection of micro- and nano-plastics. The book explores conventional and emerging technological solutions for plastic waste management, such as reusing, recycling, pyrolysis, and heterogeneous catalysis while also considering alternative approaches like biochar and microbe-based degradation that foster a holistic perspective on the transition towards a circular plastics economy.With its multidisciplinary approach, this book provides an analysis of the challenges and opportunities associated with circular plastics economy, guiding the development of sustainable solutions on a global scale. By addressing these diverse perspectives, this book offers a guide for researchers and professionals interested in tackling the challenges of plastic waste to achieve a sustainable and circular approach to managing plastic waste.

Recycling, Upcycling, and Waste Management

1st Edition
November 1, 2025
Mirela Panait + 3 more
English

Recycling, Upcycling, and Waste Management: Current Sustainability Practices and Future Trends links the discourse on recycling, upcycling, and waste management to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the three pillars of sustainability. This book makes important contributions by answering key questions about the importance of these processes for fast-tracking SDGs and ensuring social, economic, and environmental sustainability. This book explores topics such as the circular economy, innovative solutions for sustainability, the role of artificial intelligence in waste reduction, and international perspectives on waste management. It also provides practical case studies and best practices in recycling and waste management.

Mycorrhizae, Microplastics and Money

1st Edition
October 1, 2025
Bill Butterworth
English

Mycorrhizae, Microplastics and Money: Wastes as a Resource for Farming and Forestry to Deliver Reversal of Global Warming introduces a groundbreaking, technology-driven global plan that aims to achieve environmental sustainability through financial incentives. This book explores innovative methods to upcycle end-of-life materials using mycorrhizae and microplastic technology, emphasizing the importance of transforming waste into valuable resources without relying on mineral fertilizers, while still achieving higher crop yields. The potential for earning carbon credits is also discussed.The book delves into safe waste upscaling techniques, ensuring both financial and environmental sustainability. It offers practical approaches to land management and discusses the concept of reverse franchising, emphasizing its role in promoting widespread adoption of sustainable practices.

Waste to Resources

1st Edition
October 1, 2025
Shrikaant Kulkarni
English

Waste to Resources: Environmental Sustainability, Safety, and Health features practical solutions to address environmental challenges. With a focus on converting waste into valuable resources, this book explores the pivotal roles of businesses and society in fostering innovation for sustainable waste management. Divided into four sections, the book covers waste-to-value added product conversion using biotechnology and emphasizes environmental sustainability through a cradle-to-cradle approach. By providing comprehensive knowledge, understanding, and practical solutions, this book will promote research initiatives for a sustainable future while aligning with the attainment of sustainable development goals.

Biochar Ecotechnology for Sustainable Agriculture and Environment

1st Edition
February 6, 2025
Abhay Kumar + 3 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Biochar Ecotechnology for Sustainable Agriculture and Environment summarizes current accomplishments in biochar ecotechnologies for enhancing agricultural production, encouraging sustainable waste management, and fostering a circular bioeconomy by advancing the pyrolysis process at both large-scale industrial and small-scale-local levels. Chapters in the book synthesize recent breakthroughs in biochar agro-ecotechnologies for increasing agricultural productivity and promoting circular bioeconomy by advancing the pyrolysis process and add mechanisms involved in biochar-fertilizer mediated in-soil biogeochemical cycle and nutrients retention, availability and their losses, soil-microbial responses, emission of greenhouse gases, and plant responses.Finally, this book aims to increase research understanding of nanotechnological breakthroughs in the production of biochar-based slow-release fertilizers, including their Nano characteristics involved in increasing fertilizer usage efficiency and managing chemical losses, for sustainable agriculture and the environment.

Metal Value Recovery from Industrial Waste Using Advanced Physicochemical Treatment Technologies

1st Edition
November 13, 2024
Dimitrios A Giannakoudakis + 4 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Metal Value Recovery from Industrial Waste Using Advanced Physicochemical Treatment Technologies focuses on the fundamental and advanced topics involved with the technologies for the extraction of metal ions from different industrial discarded volumes which may be sludge or wastewater. Uniqueness of the book lies in the fact that it covers each topic related to industrial wastes and elaborates on discussions on metal ion recovery to make the readers confident about the topics and concepts explained in the section.Moreover, this book examines high potential in different downstream processes like membrane filtration, hybrid techniques, chemical leaching, electrochemical techniques, and a variety of advanced recovery techniques. Emphasis is given to state-of-the-art concept, latest research, practical applications or commercialization through case studies, and comparative evaluation of the processes for metal ion recovery from industrial wastes.

Waste-to-Energy

1st Edition
November 8, 2024
Pooja Sharma + 5 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Waste-to-Energy: Sustainable Approaches for Emerging Economies presents the latest developments and applications for the conversion of waste into biofuels and other energy products. Divided into two parts, Section I reviews the major sources of solid waste and their management strategies in developing countries, and includes the collection, composition, segregation, and dispersal of various waste streams, as well as the generation of biogas and other value-added products. Section II examines the transformation of waste into biofuels and the management strategies required to efficiently implement waste-to-energy processes.Methods for the production of hydrogen, biomethane, biofuels, and bioenergy, as well as resource recovery are discussed in depth, and mathematical models are provided for anaerobic digestion techniques. The benefits and challenges of waste-to-energy as a waste management strategy are explored through dedicated chapters on the techno-economics, environmental and social regulation, and the operation of WtE plants. The final chapter of the book presents a lifecycle assessment and environmental impact analysis of the technologies and strategies discussed.

Solid Waste Management for Resource-Efficient Systems

1st Edition
August 13, 2024
Richa Singh + 2 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Solid Waste Management for Resource-Efficient Systems: Circularity in Action promotes innovation and shares best practices based on the principles of the circular economy and resource conservation on different aspects of sustainable solid waste management. The book also explains sources, impacts, and recycling potential of emerging wastes. It presents management strategies, including emerging green infrastructure and digitalization for recycling and gainful application of waste. In addition, sections highlight various environmental and health hazards while providing different management strategies based on the principle of resource recovery and circular economy that can help to minimize the environmental impacts.

Recycling and Deinking of Recovered Paper

2nd Edition
June 26, 2024
Pratima Bajpai
English
Hardback
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eBook
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Recycling and Deinking of Recovered Paper, Second Edition covers recent advances in recycling technologies. This second edition examines this new process, which is more eco-friendly than the virgin-papermaking process, and which uses less energy and natural resources, produces less solid waste and fewer atmospheric emissions, and helps to preserve natural resources and landfill space. In addition, the most recent information about the recycling of fibers into various grades of paper and board, the control of stickies, and the effects of recycled fiber on paper machines are also covered.Recycling technologies have been improved in recent years due to advances in pulping, flotation deinking, and cleaning/screening, resulting in the quality of paper made from secondary fibers remarkably approaching that of virgin paper.

Occurrence and Behavior of Emerging Contaminants in Organic Wastes and Their Control Strategies

1st Edition
March 9, 2024
Kui Huang + 1 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Occurrence and Behavior of Emerging Contaminants in Organic Wastes and Their Control Strategies provides updated information on the occurrence, monitoring, and behavior of emerging contaminants discharged into the environment from different anthropogenic activities as well as organic wastes management practices, which can be beneficial in classifying and broadly addressing the assessment, treatment, disposal, and management of organic wastes. This book covers the occurrences of nanoparticles, microplastics, antibiotic resistance genes, disinfection by-products, medical waste, pharmaceutical and personal care products, and other emerging contaminants discharged in different types of organic wastes.Researchers, scientists, graduate, and postgraduate students will find this book to be a timely contribution that will be useful in identifying and comprehensively addressing occurrence and behavior of emerging contaminants in organic wastes.

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