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