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Waste: A Handbook for Management, Second Edition, provides information on a wide range of hot topics and developing areas, such as hydraulic fracturing, microplastics, waste management in developing countries, and waste-exposure-outcome pathways. Beginning with an overview of the current waste landscape, including green engineering, processing principles and regulations, the book then outlines waste streams and treatment methods for over 25 different types of waste and reviews best practices and management, challenges for developing countries, risk assessment, contaminant pathways and risk tradeoffs.
With an overall focus on waste recovery, reuse, prevention and lifecycle analysis, the book draws on the experience of an international team of expert contributors to provide reliable guidance on how best to manage wastes for scientists, managers, engineers and policymakers in both the private and public sectors.
List of contents
A. INTRODUCTION
1. Introduction to Waste Management
2. A Systems Approach to Waste Management
3. Regulation of Wastes
4. Waste Collection
5. Waste and Biogeochemical Cycling
B. WASTE STREAMS (and their treatment)
6. Mine Waste: A Brief Overview of Origins, Quantities, and Methods of Storage
7. Coal Waste Streams
8. Effect of Waste on Ecosystems
9. Oil and Gas Exploration and Production Wastes
10. Metal Waste
11. Radioactive Waste Management
12. The Municipal Landfill
13. Wastewater
14. Recovered Paper
15. Glass Waste
16. End-of-life textiles
17. Chemicals in Waste: Household Hazardous Waste
18. Reusing Non-hazardous Industrial Waste Across Business Clusters
19. Current and emerging construction waste management status, trends and approaches
20. Thermal Waste
21. Microplastics: emerging contaminants requiring multilevel management
22. Marine Plastic Pollution: other than micro-plastic
23. Plastic Waste: How Plastic has become Part of the Earth's Geological Cycle
24. Air Pollution: Atmospheric Wastes
25. Waste: Electrical and Electronic Equipment
26. Tyre Recycling
27. Medical Waste
28. Agricultural Waste and Pollution
29. Waste from Military Operations
30. Space waste
31. Hazardous Waste
32. Land Pollution
C. BEST PRACTICE AND MANAGEMENT
33. Waste Governance
34. Waste Constituent Pathways
35. Waste Management Accountability: Risk, Reliability and Resilience
36. Evaluating the feasibility of Public Projects
About the author
Professor Trevor Letcher is an Emeritus Professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, and living in the United Kingdom. He was previously Professor of Chemistry, and Head of Department, at the University of the Witwatersrand, Rhodes University, and Natal, in South Africa (1969-2004). He has published over 300 papers on areas such as chemical thermodynamic and waste from landfill in peer reviewed journals, and 100 papers in popular science and education journals. Prof. Letcher has edited and/or written 32 major books, of which 22 were published by Elsevier, on topics ranging from future energy, climate change, storing energy, waste, tyre waste and recycling, wind energy, solar energy, managing global warming, plastic waste, renewable energy, and environmental disasters. He has been awarded gold medals by the South African Institute of Chemistry and the South African Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics honoured him with a Festschrift in 2018. He is a life member of both the Royal Society of Chemistry (London) and the South African Institute of Chemistry. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics, and is a Director of the Board of the International Association of Chemical Thermodynamics since 2002.Professor Daniel A. Vallero is an internationally recognized author and expert in environmental science and engineering. He has devoted decades to conducting research, teaching, and mentoring future scientists and engineers. He is currently developing tools and models to predict potential exposures to chemicals in consumer products. He is a full adjunct professor of civil and environmental engineering at Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering. He has authored 20 environmental textbooks, with the most recent addressing the importance of physical principles in environmental science and engineering. His books have addressed all environmental compartments and media within the earth’s atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, and biosphere.
