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Municipal refuse. Solid wastes

  • Reverse Supply Chainsby Surendra M. Gupta

    CRC Press 2013; US$ 89.95

    The introduction of reverse supply chains has created many challenges in network design, transportation, selection of used products, selection and evaluation of suppliers, performance measurement, marketing-related issues, end-of-life (EOL) alternative selection, remanufacturing, disassembly, and product acquisition management, to name a few. Under... more...

  • The Garbage Crisisby Randika Jayasinghe; Usman Mushtaq; Toni Alyce Smythe

    Morgan & Claypool Publishers 2013; US$ 35.00

    This book will focus on "Waste Management," a serious global issue and engineers' responsibility towards finding better solutions for its sustainable management. Solid waste management is one of the major environmental burdens in both developed and developing countries alike. An alarming rate of solid waste generation trends can be seen as a result... more...

  • Progress of Recycling in the Built Environmentby Enric Vázquez

    Springer 2012; US$ 139.99

    This 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...

  • Planning for Learning through Recyclingby Rachel Sparks Linfield

    Andrews UK 2012; US$ 11.99

    Plan for six weeks of learning covering all six areas of learning and development of the EYFS through the topic of recycling. The Planning for Learning series is a series of topic books written around the Early Years Foundation Stage designed to make planning easy. This book takes you through six weeks of activities on the theme of recycling Each activity... more...

  • Incineration Technologiesby Alfons Buekens

    Springer 2012; US$ 39.99

    Waste incineration is the art of completely combusting waste, while maintaining or reducing emission levels below current emission standards. Where possible, objectives include the recovering of energy as well as the  combustion residues.  Successful waste incineration makes it possible to achieve a deep reduction in waste volume, obtain... more...

  • Economies of Recyclingby Catherine Alexander; Joshua Reno

    Zed Books 2012; US$ 35.95

    In 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...

  • Waste Management and the Environment VIby V. Popov; H. Itoh; C. A. Brebbia

    WIT Press 2012; US$ 386.00

    Featuring papers published at the Sixth International Conference on Waste Management and the Environment, this book contains contributions on the topics such as: Advanced Waste Treatment Technology, Wastewater Treatment; Resources Recovery; Waste Incineration and Gasification; Waste Pre-Treatment; Separation and Transformation; Landfills; Soil and... more...

  • E-waste Managementby Klaus Hieronymi; Ramzy Kahhat; Eric Williams

    Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 135.00

    The landscape of electronic waste, e-waste, management is changing dramatically. Besides a rapidly increasing world population, globalization is driving the demand for products, resulting in rising prices for many materials. Absolute scarcity looms for some special resources such as indium. Used electronic products and recyclable materials are increasingly... more...

  • Zero Waste Engineeringby M. M. Khan; M. R. Islam

    Wiley 2012; US$ 195.00

    Is "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...