Waste & Recycling

Applying pollution prevention strategies - the most viable environmental management option of the future - offers a cost-effective means of minimizing waste. Pollution Prevention: The Waste Management Approach to the 21st Century provides the background needed to understand not only pollution preven..

Preventing Waste at the Source..

Principles and Practices for Petroleum Contaminated Soils..

Paul John Flory: A Life of Science and Friends is the first full-length treatment of the life and work of Paul John Flory, recipient of the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1974. It presents a chronological progression of his scientific, professional, and personal achievements as recounted and written by..

This book exposes the inefficiencies in private sector provision and lack of capacity of Local Governments to deal with solid waste collection. The book will be essential for students, researchers and practitioners involved in areas such as policy, markets, local governments, environmental sanitatio..

This book analyzes different innovative methods and ways of recycling in connection with various types of materials. It provides a basic understanding about polymer recycling and its reuse as well as presents an in-depth look at various recycling methods. It provides a thorough knowledge about the w..

Taking a multidisciplinary approach, this collection provides a proactive, solution based approach to the rehabilitation of natural resources. Topics include the devastating results of open-cut mining, open-pit mining, lignite surface mining and acid mining; reforestation, soil fertility prognosis, ..

"Offers thorough coverage of the remediation of soils contaminated by hazardous wastes, including materials, analytical techniques, cleanup design and methodology, characterization of geomedia, monitoring of contaminants in the subsurface, and waste containment. Cites specific case studies in hydroc..

Unlike other texts that fail to explain the hydraulic processes that underlie in situ reactive zone treatments, Remediation Hydraulics provides a comprehensive discussion to help engineers to better understand these processes. This book addresses the complexities and heterogeneities of natural aquif..

Two volumes discuss resource recovery form municipal solid wastes. This second volume discusses the final processing including; incineration, preparation and use of refuse-derived fuel, biological resource recovery, biogas production, hydrolysis and single cell protein and ethanol production, compos..

Written by worldwide experts, this book offers comprehensive coverage of the latest technologies for recycled rubber. It covers the fundamentals of rubber, rubber products, and recycling; explores properties of rubber, rubber reuse, and reuse specifications; and examines new applications and process..

This book takes the reader step-by-step through the process of helping parents understand the role of performance-based assessment in student learning. Included are:- suggestions about what to emphasize during one-to-one meetings with parents.- speeches and presentations you can deliver at PTSA meet..