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Metal Bearing Waste Streams
Elsevier Science 1990; US$ 144.00Analyzes alternatives to land disposal of hazardous metal waste streams, focusing on methods to prevent waste generation. Source reduction, recycling and treatment strategies are covered. more...
Cradle to Cradle
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2010; US$ 27.99A manifesto for a radically different philosophy and practice of manufacture and environmentalism "Reduce, reuse, recycle" urge environmentalists; in other words, do more with less in order to minimize damage. As William McDonough and Michael Braungart argue in their provocative, visionary book, however, this approach perpetuates a one-way, "cradle... more...
Industrial Composting
CRC Press 2011; US$ 139.95"Any reference by Dr. Epstein is a valuable tool for the composting professional ! It also includes perhaps the most comprehensive list of reference materials, which should be very helpful if the reader desires more information on a particular topic." --John T. Bouey, P.E., President, Managed Organic Recycling, Inc., Oakland, California The... more...
Recycling of Electronic Waste II
Wiley 2011; US$ 93.95Currently, recycling of e-waste can be broadly divided into three major steps: (a) disassembly: selectively disassembly, targeting on singling out hazardous or valuable components for special treatment, is an indispensable process in recycling of e-waste; (b) upgrading: using mechanical processing and/or metallurgical processing to up-grade desirable... more...
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Shell Education 2010; US$ 8.99The students in this book want to protect the environment. The students use graphs to show the many ways they can reduce, reuse, and recycle. They can reduce the amount water they use. They can reuse paper. But it is recycling that really gets them excited. The students bring in old cans and bottles. They use a graph to find out how much money they... more...
Zero Waste Engineering
Wiley 2012; US$ 195.00Is "zero waste engineering" possible? This book outlines how to achieve zero waste engineering, following natural pathways that are truly sustainable. Using methods that have been developed in various areas for sustainability purposes, such as new mathematical models, recyclable material selection, and renewable energy, the authors probe the principles... more...
Private Sector Involvement in Urban Solid Waste Collection
CRC Press 2011; US$ 69.95The private sector involvement in public service is intended to achieve efficiency gain and better service quality through increasing private sector finance and expertise. However, these benefits are most often not achieved in developing countries due to investment risk of private finance, and problems of capacity and regulation of the private sector.... more...
Designing for Zero Waste
Taylor and Francis 2011; US$ 59.95Designing for Zero Waste is a timely, topical and necessary publication. Materials and resources are being depleted at an accelerating speed and rising consumption trends across the globe have placed material efficiency, waste reduction and recycling at the centre of many government policy agendas, giving them an unprecedented urgency. While there... more...
Economies of Recycling
Zed Books 2012; US$ 35.95In the first decade of the twenty-first century, the largest export from the US to China was scrap. But despite the sheer scale of this global trade in used materials, it has yet to be clearly identified and examined. Combining fine-grained ethnographic analysis with an overview of the international flow of materials, Economies of Recycling reveals... more...
Progress of Recycling in the Built Environment
Springer 2012; US$ 139.99This report is a useful tool for countries starting to recycle aggregates or construction and demolition waste. It contains the latest developments in this field, introduces a completely new approach to the procedure of proportioning concrete mixtures with recycled aggregate, references recent publications, opinions and discrepancies in relation to... more...









