Solid Waste Management for Resource-Efficient Systems

Circularity in Action

Richa Singh, Sanjeeb Mohapatra, Mui-Choo Jong

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Year: 2024
• eBook ISBN: 9780443237768
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Environmental Science
• Index: Biological Sciences

Circularity in Action: Solid Waste Management for Resource-Efficient Systems promotes innovation and shares best practices based on the principles of circular economy and resource conservation on different aspects of sustainable solid waste management. It also explains sources, impacts and recycling potential of emerging wastes. This book presents management strategies including emerging green infrastructure and digitalization for recycling and gainful application of waste. In addition, it highlights various environmental and health hazards while providing different management strategies based on the principle of resource recovery and circular economy that can help to minimize the environmental impacts. - Provides insights for effective management practices with solid waste using case studies on sustainable waste management - Covers not only the scientific and technical aspects but also environmental, legal and policy aspects of solid waste management with a particular focus on recycling potential for various gainful applications - Contributes a platform for scientists and environmental researchers and planners to discuss environmental degradation and methodological approaches to sustainable management of recycled products

Table of contents

• Cover
• Front Matter
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• Contributors
• Preface
• Acknowledgment
• List of Illustrations
• List of Tables
• Chapter 1 : Characterization and compositional analysis of municipal solid waste in developing and developed world—An insight
• Chapter 2 : An overview of solid waste management in the Pacific: Current status, challenges, and recommendations
• Chapter 3 : Electronic waste management in developing economies: Challenges and approaches
• Chapter 4 : Uniform electronic waste classification—A required policy to compare country-level electronic waste statistics
• Chapter 5 : Emerging environmental contaminants: Fate at landfill sites and in leachate
• Chapter 6 : The flow of microplastics from wastewater to the urban aquatic environment: Occurrence, fate, and an outlook on management strategies in Asia
• Chapter 7 : Worldwide impact of COVID-19 on sustainable solid waste management—Challenges and opportunities
• Chapter 8 : A review of rapid composting techniques and optimization of parameters for the management of organic waste
• Chapter 9 : Achieving decarbonization in the waste management sector
• Chapter 10 : Pollutants control strategies for modern waste incinerators: Status quo in China in the context of municipal solid waste classification
• Chapter 11 : A review study on plastic waste management: An Indian perspective
• Chapter 12 : Integration of the informal sector in solid waste management for resource recovery
• Chapter 13 : Status of landfilling in developing and developed nations: A literature review
• Chapter 14 : Legacy waste management and dumpsite remediation in India: A policy drive for garbage-free cities
• Chapter 15 : Landfill mining—Opportunities and challenges in a European perspective
• Chapter 16 : Significance of natural treatment systems for management of landfill leachate: Fate of micropollutants
• Chapter 17 : Hazardous and nonhazardous waste management at ship breaking yards: A way toward a sustainable and green ship recycling
• Chapter 18 : Methods for treatment of asbestos-containing wastes for their safe disposal and gainful utilization
• Chapter 19 : Environmental sound management of biomedical waste generated during the COVID-19 pandemic crisis
• Chapter 20 : Industrial solid waste for wastewater treatment: An approach toward the circular economy
• Chapter 21 : A paradigm shift in the management of oil refinery wastes
• Index