Solid Waste Treatment Technologies: Challenges and Perspectives [Paperback]

1. Waste Management: A Global Challenge
2. Emerging solid wastes and its management
3. Solid waste treatment technologies: Thermochemical pathway
4. Solid waste treatment technologies: Biochemical pathway
5. Solid waste treatment technologies: Physicochemical pathway
6. Waste disposal and its environmental impact
7. Circular economy and solid waste
8. Microplastics as emerging Soil Pollutants: Ecological Impact and Management Strategies
9. Fate and behavior of micro- and nanoplastics in wastes
10. Environmental fate, behaviour, and risk management approaches of nanoplastics in the environment: Current scenario and future
11. Bioremediation and Biodegradation: Importance and Recent Development
12. Bioremediation of Phthalate Esters contaminated soil with augmentation technique in Bio-Slurry reactor

This book covers all technical, managerial, and legislative aspects of waste management at a global scale, providing a detailed description about different types of wastes, their characteristics, legal perspectives, and sustainable practices for their management supported by various case studies.

Sustainable waste management is a major step towards the attainment of Sustainable Development Goals. This book covers all technical, managerial, and legislative aspects of waste management at a global scale, providing a detailed description about different types of wastes, their characteristics, legal perspectives, and sustainable practices for their management. It explains developments in waste treatment technologies (classified based on waste type) and understanding the fundamentals of circular economy in waste management, supported by various case studies.

Features:

• Discusses fundamentals of solid waste management for sustainable waste management practices