Waste a handbook for management / edited by Trevor M. Letcher, Emeritus Professor, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Laurel House, FosseWay, Stratton on the Fosse, Somerset, United Kingdom, Daniel A. Vallero, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States.
| Other author | Letcher, T. M. (Trevor M.) |
| Other author | Vallero, Daniel A. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | Second edition. |
| Publication Info | London [England] ; San Diego, CA : Academic Press, [2019] |
| Description | xxviii, 775 pagess : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBook - Environmental Science 2019 |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction to Waste Management / Daniel A. Vallero, Valerie Shulman -- A Systems Approach to Waste Management / Daniel A. Vallero -- Regulation of Wastes / Daniel A. Vallero -- Waste Collection / Daniel A. Vallero, Fraser McLeod, Tom Cherrett -- Waste and Biogeochemical Cycling / Daniel A. Vallero -- Mine Waste : A Brief Overview of Origins, Quantities, and Methods of Storage / Daniel A. Vallero, Geoffrey Blight -- Coal Waste Streams / Daniel A. Vallero -- Effect of Waste on Ecosystems / Daniel A. Vallero -- Oil and Gas Exploration and Production Wastes / Daniel A. Vallero -- Metal Waste / Alexander Feil, Thomas Pretz, J©œrg Julius, Nicolas Go, Marcel Bosling, Kay Johnen -- Radioactive Waste Management / Ronald A. Palmer -- The Municipal Landfill / Daniel A. Vallero, Geoff Blight -- Wastewater / Daniel A. Vallero -- Recovered Paper / Gary M. Scott -- Glass Waste / John H. Butler, Paul D. Hooper -- End-of-Life Textiles / Andreas Bartl -- Chemicals in Waste : Household Hazardous Waste / Trevor M. Letcher, Rebecca Slack -- Reusing Nonhazardous Industrial Waste Across Business Clusters / Marian Chertow, Jooyoung Park -- Current and Emerging Construction Waste Management Status, Trends and Approaches / Mohamed Osmani, Paola Villoria-S©Łez -- Thermal Pollution / Daniel A. Vallero -- Microplastics : Emerging Contaminants Requiring Multilevel Management / Natalie Welden -- Marine Plastic Pollution : Other Than Microplastic / Imogen E. Napper, Richard C. Thompson -- Plastic Waste : How Plastics Have Become Part of the Earth's Geological Cycle / Jan Zalasiewicz, Sarah Gabbott, Colin N. Waters -- Air Pollution : Atmospheric Wastes / Daniel A. Vallero -- Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment / Ruediger Kuehr -- Tire Recycling / Valerie L. Shulman -- Medical Waste / Anne Woolridge, Selin Hoboy -- Agricultural Waste and Pollution / Andy Green -- Military Solid and Hazardous Wastes : The Army Corps of Engineers Disaster Debris Management Mission / Victor F. Medina, Edith Martinez-Guerra, Stephen C. Cosper -- Space Waste / Stephen Hobbs, Gene Stansbery, Tiago Matos de Carvalho -- Hazardous Wastes / Daniel A. Vallero -- Land Pollution / Daniel J. Vallero, Daniel A. Vallero -- Waste Governance / Daniel A. Vallero -- Waste Constituent Pathways / Daniel A. Vallero -- Waste Management Accountability : Risk, Reliability, and Resilience / Daniel A. Vallero -- Evaluating the Feasibility of Public Projects / Daniel A. Vallero. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2020301693 |
| ISBN | 9780128150603 |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |