Handbook of Solid Waste Management and Waste Minimization Technologies
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Author(s): N. Cheremisinoff
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
ISBN: 0750675071
Format: hardback
477pp
Price: £75.00
Review Date: 28 March 2003
Review: This volume, the latest in a series on waste and pollution, looks at strategies and technologies for reducing solid waste generation, at applying resource recovery, and at the available waste-management techniques. The eight chapters give: the principles behind source reduction and waste minimization; the US environmental issues and liabilities associated with waste management; the management of municipal solid waste; landfill operations, including gas energy recovery; solid waste reduction technologies; biosolids applications; industrial sources and waste pollution; and the prevention of pollution.