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Waste
A Handbook for Management
- 2nd Edition - March 5, 2019
- Editors: Trevor Letcher, Daniel A. Vallero
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 5 0 6 0 - 3
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 5 4 4 2 - 7
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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Request a sales quoteWaste: 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.
- 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
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
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
- No. of pages: 803
- Language: English
- Edition: 2
- Published: March 5, 2019
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128150603
- eBook ISBN: 9780128154427
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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 an internationally recognized author and expert in environmental science and engineering. He has devoted decades to conducting research, teaching, and mentoring future scientists and engineers. He is currently developing tools and models to predict potential exposures to chemicals in consumer products. He is a full adjunct professor of civil and environmental engineering at Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering. He has authored 20 environmental textbooks, with the most recent addressing the importance of physical principles in environmental science and engineering. His books have addressed all environmental compartments and media within the earth’s atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, and biosphere.
Affiliations and expertise
Full Adjunct Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering, NC, USARead Waste on ScienceDirect