waste to landfill Books and Publications

A Wasted Opportunity: Getting The Most Out Of Britain`s Bins

Our latest report recommends the radical overhaul of the UK's waste system to reduce the cost on households, improve recycling rates, increase local authority efficiency and expand the proportion of the UK's energy needs met through waste. A Wasted Opportunity notes that Britain still sends more than half its ...

By Policy Exchange

Recycling Concrete : Executive Summary

This report argues that recycling concrete reduces natural resource exploitation and waste going to landfill. It asks for an ultimate goal of ?zero landfill? of ...

By Earthprint Ltd

Evapotranspiration Covers for Landfills and Waste Sites

As technology and production escalate, the scourge of landfill waste increasingly threatens the environment. This book examines the evapotranspiration (ET) landfill cover, a new and innovative remedy for landfill waste. Offering a solution to conventional landfill, which utilize barriers to the ...

By CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group

Handbook of Industrial and Hazardous Wastes Treatment

wastes to landfill leachate to wastes produced by the pharmaceutical and food ...

By CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group

Handbook of Environmental Odour Management

Complaints due to odour annoyance have become a major issue for wastewater treatment plant, waste management, landfill, intensive livestock and other industrial operators as the repeated release of unpleasant odorous emissions can constitute a nuisance to a local population. Traditionally, odour management has ...

By IWA Publishing

Feedstock Recycling of Plastic Wastes

The use of plastic materials has seen a massive increase in recent years, and generation of plastic wastes has grown proportionately. Recycling of these wastes to reduce landfill disposal is problematic due to the wide variation in properties and chemical composition among the different types of plastics. ...

By Royal Society of Chemistry

Sustainable Food Waste Evaluation

Available as eBook only According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA, 2011), over 34 million tons of food waste are generated annually in the United States. The agency further reports that almost all of this waste is landfilled. Based on these estimates, food waste is the second ...

By IWA Publishing

Directory & Atlas of Non-Hazardous Waste Sites

that provides you with up-to-date information on the detailed operations of landfills, ...

By Waste Business Journal

Advances in Environmental Geotechnics

"Advances in Environmental Geotechnics" presents the latest developments in this interdisciplinary field. The topics covered include basic and advanced theories for modeling of geoenvironmental phenomena, testing and monitoring for geoenvironmental engineering, municipal solid wastes and landfill engineering, ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Title 26, Toxics Regulations Package, LawDesk® CD-ROM ed. (Barclays Official California Code of Regulations)

California toxic rules regarding air pollution standards, hazardous waste management, landfill ...

By Thomson Reuters (Westlaw)

The Solid Waste Manager´s Guide to the Bioreactor Landfill (2002)

A NEW SWANA Publication! This 55-page guide presents up-to-date information that can be used by solid waste managers to address the management, as well as technical issues, associated with the implementation of this new disposal technology. Topics covered include: Bioreactor Landfill Technology Status ...

By The Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA)

Persistent Organic Pollutants in the Great Lakes

The environment around the Laurentian Great Lakes region has been adversely affected by agricultural runoff, urban waste, industrial discharge, landfill leachate, and atmospheric deposition. Although there have been some improvements over the last 20 years, persistent toxic organic pollutants are now a serious ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

8th Annual Landfill Symposium & The Solid Waste Managers Conference Proceedings (2003) - CD

This joint event combined sessions for landfill issues with onces concerning the management of solid waste. Some areas covered are: Hot topics in solid waste management; Geosynthetics in landfill design; Public/private partnerships; Leachate characterization, management & treatment; Regulations, ...

By The Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA)

Scientific Uncertainty and Its Influence on the Public Communication Process

Europe, covering such areas as nuclear waste, heavy metal contamination, landfill siting, risk ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Design, Operation & Closure of Municipal Solid Waste Landfills (1994)

From the Center for Environmental Research Information, for the U.S. EPA, this seminar publication summarizes the complexities of the landfill, from choosing the site to site closure. ...

By The Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA)

Leachate Recycle and the Augmentation of Biological Decomposition at Mumicipal Solid Waste Landfills (1991)

Landfill disposal of MSW remains the major disposal option for many established solid waste programs. With state-of-the-art landfill construction, leachate management and landfill collection, landfills are becoming increasingly technical. Covered in this study: Waste Stabilization/Leacharte ...

By The Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA)

Hazardous and Industrial Solid Waste Testing

Twenty-four papers examine the following subjects: thermal treatment; hazard degrees, health effects, and risk assessment; waste characterization; extraction of extracts and leachates; landfill/land farm simulation; and sampling of residues and ...

By ASTM International

40th Annual Solid Waste Exposition (WASTECON) Proceedings (2002) - HC or CD

Topics covered at the 40th Annual Solid Waste Exposition include: Buying Recycled; Collection; Communications Education & Marketing; Contracting for Solid Waste Services; Emerging Legal Trends in Waste Management; International MSW Practice and Solutions; Landfill Gas Control; Landfill Gas Utilization; ...

By The Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA)

Environmental Law for Engineers and Geoscientists

Today’s engineering and geoscience student needs to know more than how to design a new or remedial project or facility. Questions of law and ambiguities of terms often occur in contracts for mining, landfills, site reclamation, waste depositories, clean up sites, land leases, operating agreements, joint ...

By CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group

Waste Materials and By-Products in Concrete

Non-hazardous waste materials and by-products which are mostly landfilled, can be used in making concrete and similar construction materials. This book gives an summary of this usage: one chapter is devoted to each material, comprising an introduction, chemical and physical properties, usage potential, and the ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

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