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This book provides a comprehensive presentation of municipal solid waste management, including waste generation and characterization, waste reduction and recycling, waste collection and transfer, and waste disposal. It analyses and compares how these aspects are practiced in developing and developed countries. Traditional 'composting at differen
List of contents
Basics. Waste Generation and Characterisation. Waste Reduction and Recycling. Waste Collection and Transfer. Composting. Energy from Waste. Landfilling. MSW Management in India. Private Sector Participation in India. MSW Management and Planning - Global Examples.
About the author
Dr. P. Jayarama Reddy is an energy consultant to the solar photovoltaic industry and has made it his mission to promote the application of renewable energy initiatives. He serves as a board member on several international renewable energy companies that work on solar module fabrication, power generation from biomass, and municipal solid waste. Dr. Reddy is retired as a professor of Physic and has devoted a large part of his life to crystal physics and the application of advanced materials in the semi-conductor and thin film industry. He has worked in the various big research laboratories, under which those at Cornell University (US), Imperial College (UK), Charles University (Czech Rep.) and Stuttgart University (Germany). The recipient of several awards and a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (UK), Dr. Reddy has published a number of books on renewable energy, including 'Science and Technology of Photovoltaics' (BS Publications / CRC Press).
Summary
This book provides a comprehensive presentation of municipal solid waste management, including waste generation and characterization, waste reduction and recycling, waste collection and transfer, and waste disposal. It analyses and compares how these aspects are practiced in developing and developed countries. Traditional ‘composting at differen
