Integrated Solid Waste Management : Engineering Principles and Management Issues

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Edition: 2nd
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1993-01-01
Publisher(s): McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math
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Summary

A junior/senior-level introductory text aimed at civil and environmental engineers taking a basic introduction to Solid Waste Management. The text includes the latest 1990-1991 laws and regulations.

Table of Contents

I Perspectives

1 Evolution of Solid Waste Management

2 Legislative Trends and Impacts

II Sources, Composition, and Properties of Solid Waste

3 Sources, Types, and Composition of Municipal Solid Waste

4 Physical, Chemical, and Biological Properties of Municipal Solid Waste

5 Sources, Types and Properties of Hazardous Wastes Found In Municipal Solid Waste

III Engineering Principles

6 Generation of Solid Wastes

7 Waste Handling and Separation, Storage, and Processing at the Source

8 Collection of Solid Wastes

9 Separation and Processing and Transformation of Waste Materials

10 Transfer and Transport

11 Disposal and Solid Wastes and Residual Matter

IV Separation, Transformation, and Recycling of Waste Materials

12 Materials Separation and Processing Technologies

13 Thermal Conversion Technologies

14 Biological and Chemical Conversion Technologies

15 Recycling of Materials Found in Municipal Solid Waste

V Closure, Restoration, and Rehabilitation of Landfills

16 Remedial Actions for Abandoned Waste Disposal Sites

VI Solid Waste Management and Planning Issues

17 Meeting Federal and State Mandated Diversion Goals

18 Implementation of Solid Waste Management Options

19 Planning, Siting, and Permitting of Waste Management Facilities

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