The Recycling and Disposal of Solid Waste
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The Recycling and Disposal of Solid Waste

Proceedings of a Course Organised by the Department of Metallurgy and Materials Science, University of Nottingham, 1st - 5th April, 1974

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The Recycling and Disposal of Solid Waste

Proceedings of a Course Organised by the Department of Metallurgy and Materials Science, University of Nottingham, 1st - 5th April, 1974

About this book

The Recycling and Disposal of Solid Waste contains the proceedings of a course held at The University of Nottingham on April 1-5, 1974. This book contains 16 papers separated as chapters. Topics include economic potential of waste recycling; bulk reduction by incineration, hydrolysis and pyrolysis; organic wastes; glass recycling; legal aspects of solid waste disposal; the sorting of solid waste into useful fractions; and ferrous metals recycling. This text also describes the tipping and sanitary landfill; textiles recycling; polymers recycling; new materials created from waste; and toxic and radioactive solid wastes. Air pollution from solid waste disposal; non-ferrous metals recycling; and the plating and ECM sludges as raw materials are also presented.

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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. The Recycling and Disposal of Solid Waste
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. FOREWORD
  6. CHAPTER 1. THE ECONOMIC POTENTIAL OF RECYCLING
  7. CHAPTER 2. BULK REDUCTION BY INCINERATION, HYDROLYSIS AND PYROLYSIS
  8. CHAPTER 3. ORGANIC WASTES
  9. CHAPTER 4. GLASS CONTAINERS IN THE ENVIRONMENT
  10. CHAPTER 5. LEGAL ASPECTS OF SOLID WASTE DISPOSAL
  11. CHAPTER 6. THE SEPARATION OF SOLID WASTE INTO USEFUL FRACTIONS
  12. CHAPTER 7. THE USE OF FERROUS SCRAP IN STEELMAKING
  13. CHAPTER 8. CONTROLLED TIPPING AND SANITARY LANDFILL
  14. CHAPTER 9. CONTROLLED TIPPING
  15. CHAPTER 10. TEXTILE RECYCLING
  16. CHAPTER 11. PLASTICS WASTE RECOVERY AND RECYCLING
  17. CHAPTER 12. NEW MATERIALS CREATED FROM WASTE
  18. CHAPTER 13. A REGIONAL APPROACH TO WASTE RECYCLING
  19. CHAPTER 14. PLATING AND ECM SLUDGES AS RAW MATERIALS
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