Waste Recovery and Management: An Approach Toward Sustainable Development Goals

By: Parveen and Ashwini Kumar and Ravi Kant Mittal and Rajesh Goel and Ajay

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Synopsis: Sustainable development approaches cannot be met unless waste management is addressed as a priority. Waste Recovery and Management: An Approach Toward Sustainable Development Goals presents a comprehensive examination of environmental pollution and health hazards caused by differing types of waste, its recycling and other e-waste management strategies, and potential political and legal interventions. It also presents the available carbon-recycling methods and investigates how these might be applied to reinforce waste management in industrialized countries as well as developing and emerging economies. Each chapter includes valuable data and case studies that serve as practical guidance for academicians, researchers, and stakeholders for quantifying the impacts of waste, and for planning integrated solid waste collection and treatment systems, thereby working toward sustainability at a global level.Features: Covers both traditional and new technologies for identifying and categorizing the sources and nature of various types of waste Provides methods for the safe disposal of municipal solid wastes, plastic waste, bio-medical wastes, hazardous wastes, and e-wastes Explains practical measures to cover the broad spectrum of everyday applications of waste management for environmental sustainability Contains a focused discussion of the current scenario and future research directions for different types of waste in each chapter

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9781000876468
Related ISBNs:: 9781032281933, 9781000876451, 9781003359784
Publisher:: CRC Press
Date of Addition:: 04/15/24
Copyrighted By:: selection and editorial matter, Ajay, Parveen, Ashwini Kumar, Ravi Kant Mittal, and Rajesh Goel
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Science, Technology
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Ajay
Edited by:: Parveen
Edited by:: Ashwini Kumar
Edited by:: Ravi Kant Mittal
Edited by:: Rajesh Goel