Water and waste management covers the design, building and operation of plants for water treatment and supply, sewerage, wastewater treatment and disposal, and solid waste treatment and disposal. Since the last edition in 2002 there has been an increasing importance on the issues reflecting climate change. This is particularly important when the ...
Uncontrolled spreading of waste materials leads to health problems and environmental damage. To prevent these problems a waste management infrastructure has been set to collect and dispose of the waste, based on a hierarchy of three principles: waste prevention, recycling/reuse, and final disposal. Final disposal is the least desirable as it ...
Research into the sampling and measurement of odours has developed in a number of sectors, especially the agriculture, food and process industries, with knowledge from each sector being transferred to the wastewater and solid waste management sectors. Progressive developments in odour research have resulted in researchers re-tracing original ...
Biomethanization of the Organic Fraction of Municipal Solid Wastes is a comprehensive introduction to both the fundamentals and the more practical aspects of the anaerobic digestion of organic solid wastes, particularly those derived from households, that is, the organic fraction of municipal solid wastes (OFMSW). It can be used as a textbook for ...
Environmental Technologies to Treat Sulfur Pollution: Principles and Engineering provides a definitive and detailed discussion of state-of-the-art environmental technologies to treat pollution by sulfurous compounds of wastewater, off-gases, solid waste, soils and ...
Tests, practices, and guides address medical waste, municipal solid waste, sampling and monitoring, physical and chemical characterization, site remediation, treatment, recovery and reuse, and processing ...
Tests, practices, and guides address medical waste, municipal solid waste, sampling and monitoring, physical and chemical characterization, site remediation, treatment, recovery and reuse, and processing ...
In our rapidly urbanizing global society, solid waste management will be a key challenge facing all the world's cities. Solid Waste Management in the World's Cities provides a fresh perspective and new data on one of the biggest issues in urban development.Using the framework of Integrated Sustainable Waste Management (ISWM), the report brings ...
Tests, practices, and guides address medical waste, municipal solid waste, sampling and monitoring, physical and chemical characterization, site remediation, treatment, recovery and reuse, and processing ...
Tests, practices, and guides address medical waste, municipal solid waste, sampling and monitoring, physical and chemical characterization, site remediation, treatment, recovery and reuse, and processing ...