Hazardous Waste Management: An Overview of Advanced and Cost-Effective Solutions includes the latest practical knowledge and theoretical concepts for the treatment of hazardous wastes. The book covers five major themes, namely, ecological impact, waste management hierarchy, hazardous waste characteristics and regulations, hazardous wastes management, and future scope of hazardous waste management. It serves as a comprehensive and advanced reference for undergraduate students, researchers and practitioners in the field of hazardous wastes and focuses on the latest emerging research in the management of hazardous waste, the direction in which this branch is developing as well as future prospects. The book deals with all these components in-depth, however, particular attention is given to management techniques and cost-effective, economically feasible solutions for hazardous wastes released from various sources. Comprehensively explores the impact of hazardous wastes on human health and ecosystems Discusses toxicity across solid waste, aquatic food chain and airborne diseases Categorically elaborates waste treatment and management procedures with current challenges Discusses future challenges and the importance of renewing technologies
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the complex, interdisciplinary field of hazardous waste management, with thoroughly updated information on the most current methods of treatment, disposal, and site remediation....
Focusing on integrating the technical and regulatory complexities of waste management, this book covers the historical and regulatory development of waste management and the management of municipal solid wastes.
Retaining its predecessor's practical topical range, this edition is invaluable for the chemical and environmental engineer as well as the hazardous materials technician, with essential information on: Hazardous materials management in the ...
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Hazardous Waste Management: Reducing the Risk is the first book to study and rate toxic waste disposal sites and to provide step-by-step guidelines for evaluation, decision, and action.
The Book Has Been Skillfully Designed And Well Supplemented With Diagrams, Figures, Glossary And Index So As To Make It Self-Contained And Comprehensible.
The book offers universal coverage of the technologies used for the management and disposal of waste products, such as plastic waste, bio-medical wastes, hazardous wastes, and e-wastes.
Love Canal , a water conveyance originally excavated for a hydroelectric project in Niagara Falls , New York , was used by Hooker Chemical Company as a dump site for nearly 22,000 tons of waste chemicals . Hooker closed and capped the ...
The book covers hazardous waste industries, sources of waste generation, characterization and treatment processes/ methods, technique and technology to deal with the treated waste as per the prescribed techniques of bioremediation.
The presentation follows the logical steps necessary to establish a Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) Waste Management Program. The book focuses primarily on large and medium quantity generators.