This book covers environmental and economic waste treatment with resource recovery strategies covering mining, urban, agricultural, industrial, and sewage wastes. It includes waste management, life-cycle assessment, recycling, and recovering valuable materials from blast furnace slags, iron ore, coal, and bauxite mining. Wastewater recycling, reuse, treatment methods, and economic gain through nanotechnology are covered, along with biochemical study cycles in mining waste and tailing, landfill stabilization, energy, and nutrient recovery from household, urban, and hazardous waste.

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Includes details on the generation and composition of hazardous wastes
Focuses on practices in waste management followed in developing countries
Illustrates the concept of energy and resource recovery
Explains ethical, innovative management strategies dealing with solid, biomedical, and chemical wastes
Discusses sustainable nanotechnology and engineered materials for treatment of biological and chemical pollutants in wastewater

This book is aimed at researchers and graduate students in environmental engineering and management.

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Yes, you can access Waste Management and Treatment by Ankur Rajpal, Moharana Choudhury, Srijan Goswami, Arghya Chakravorty, Vimala Raghavan, Ankur Rajpal,Moharana Choudhury,Srijan Goswami,Arghya Chakravorty,Vimala Raghavan in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Technology & Engineering & Environmental Management. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

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Technology & Engineering

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Environmental Management

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Technology & Engineering

Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
About the Editors
List of Contributors
Chapter 1 Introduction to Environmental Waste: A Serious Issue
Chapter 2 Effect of Improper Waste Disposal on Environmental, Physical, and Emotional Well-Being of Human Beings
Chapter 3 An Integrated Approach Towards Sustainable Waste Management: Decentralized and Community-Based Practices
Chapter 4 Solid Waste Management
Chapter 5 Solid Wastes: Basic Knowledge on Sources and Types for Better Management
Chapter 6 Municipal Solid Waste Management of Different Socioeconomic Groups Toward Sustainable Development Goals
Chapter 7 Managing Solid Wastes in Developing Countries: Insights From Three Indian Smart Cities
Chapter 8 Impact and Revival of Sustainable Solid Waste Management for a Green Environment
Chapter 9 Recent Trends in Sanitary Landfilling and Future Prospects
Chapter 10 Potential for Applicability of Decentralized Approaches in Sewage Treatment Systems Globally
Chapter 11 A Comprehensive Characterization of Wastewater and Sewage Sludge in SBR-Based STPs of India
Chapter 12 Advances in Nanoribbons-Structured Nanomaterials for Wastewater Treatment
Chapter 13 Beneficial Bacteria in Restoring the Soil Contamination Caused due to Intense Agrochemicals
Chapter 14 Innovations in Nanotechnology for Wastewater Treatment
Chapter 15 Waste Management: Learning and Challenges from a Case Study of a University Model in India
Chapter 16 Biochar Production from Crop Residues
Chapter 17 Sustainable Waste Management and Women’s Empowerment
Chapter 18 Remote-Sensing Techniques in Solid Waste Management
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