1st Edition
Solid Waste Management Challenges and Recent Solutions
This book provides a holistic picture of waste and its management techniques, with all the recent advancements and necessary projections for the future, which aim to maximize the value-added products for environmental sustainability on a cost-effective basis. It emphasizes the practices, problems, and management of a broad variety of industrial solid waste and facilitates a major understanding of the utilization of sustainable tools to combat all types of problems.
The book:
- Provides holistic approach towards the topic to channelize waste management globally.
- Discusses waste minimization and regulation in conjunction with other integrated solutions and equipment.
- Reviews updated information and data for use to modify the system for advanced waste management.
- Explores innovative methods of defining, sorting, and treating solid waste.
- Includes case studies in each chapter for analyzing the concept in the real world.
This book is aimed at graduate students and researchers in civil and environmental engineering, and waste management.
1. Understanding Waste: Type, Characterization and Environmental Impacts.
Asha Kumari Kumawat, Supriya Vaish and Bhawana Pathak
2. Wastes and its Current status - A Middle East Perspective.
Ghassan.F.Al.Samarrai, Rana.I. Khaleel, Norli Ismail
3. Challenges and opportunities in waste: Indian aspect.
Chaitanya Narala and Dr. D. Bhagawan
4. Waste minimization, management and resource recovery: Livestock waste.
Ellin Harlia, Eulis Tanti Marlina, Yuli Astuti, Norli Ismail
5. Industrial, Construction and Demolition Waste -Management and Resource Recovery.
Nurhanim B. Abdul Aziz, Putri Anis Syahira B. Mohamad Jamil, Muhammad Hasnolhadi B. Samsudin and Norli B. Ismail
6. Health Hazard and Waste Management.
S.N.M. Yamen, M.S. Samsudin, M.I.F.M. Rosli
7. Biological Hazardous Waste Management of Animal Husbandry and Food Processing Industry.
Eulis Tanti Marlina, Yuli Astuti Hidayati, Ellin Harlia, Norli Ismail
8. Ecological and Human Health Risk Assessments in Water and Soil Samples from Beris Lalang Waste Dumpsite, Kelantan, Malaysia.
Florence Rutselin Kelanit, Norli Ismail, Mohd Hafiidz Jaafar, Nurul Ilyana Sansudin, Hasmah Abdullah, Widad Fadhullah
9. Wealth from Municipal Solid Waste.
R. N. Singh and Neha Gour
10. Plastic wastes and its management strategies: recent advances.
Aryadeep Roychoudhury, Shreyosi Pahari, Alen D Rozario
11. Nanowastes and its Management: New Waste Management Paradigm.
Ekta Tiwari, Nitin Khandelwal and Nisha Singh
12. Algal Nanoparticles as a Green Approach for Bioremediation of Heavy Metals from Wastewater.
Sujata, Anuj Sharma, Bansal Deepak, Rachna Bhateria, Sharma Mona
13. From Crisis to Opportunity: Advancing Plastic Waste Management in the Age of Nano and COVID-Related Waste.
M.I.F.M. Rosli, M.S. Samsudin, S.N.M. Yamen
14. Pinus roxburhii Sarg. needle management to combat forest fire: status, prospects and constraints.
Prashant Sharma, Kamlesh Verma, D.R. Bhardwaj, M.K. Singh, Dhirender Kumar, Pankaj Thakur
15. Waste Management Practices of Riverside Communities at the Limbang River Sarawak, Malaysia.
Siti Noor Aliza Apandi and Norli Ismail
Biography
Rajeev Pratap Singh, works in an area of waste management and have worked on various kinds of waste i.e., fly ash, sewage sludge, tannery sludge, palm oil mill waste, contained water irrigation etc. Many publications in reputed journals on waste management and similar topics. Dr Singh has received several international awards, like – ‘Green Talent’ award from Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Germany; Prosper.Net Scopus Young Scientist award, DST Young Scientist Award etc.
Ibha Suhani has completed her M.Sc. in Environmental Science from Banasthali Vidyapith, Rajasthan, India. She has completed her Masters in Philosophy in Environmental Science from Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development (IESD), Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. She is a Ph.D. research scholar currently working in the field of environmental science, ecotoxicology, solid waste management and sustainability at the Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development (IESD), Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. During her doctoral research she has worked on the current issue of salt affected lands by using amelioration techniques through utilizing compost and vermicompost. Currently she is working to check the threshold of earthworm for naturally sodic soil and organic amendments.
Norli Ismail holds a BSc (honour) in Environmental Science from Universiti Putra Malaysia and completed MSc in Chemical Processes and PhD in Environmental Technology at Universiti Sains Malaysia. Prof, Dr. Norli join the School of Industrial Technology as a lecturer attached to Environmental Technology Division, USM in October 2003. At present she is a dean of the School of Industrial Technology (2019 – Dec. 2021). Prof. Dr. Norli has research experienced in various areas of environmental science and technology with emphasis on water quality, management issues, and treatability studies in relation to water, wastewater and analytical testing.
Vaibhav Srivastava is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, University of Allahabad, Prayagraj-211002, Uttar Pradesh, India. Previously, worked as Assistant Professor in the Department of Health, Safety and Environment, Sustainability Cluster, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies. Dr. Srivastava did his masters (M.Sc.) from the University of Allahabad, Prayagraj and Ph.D. from the Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India in Botany. During his doctoral research, he has put innovative ideas and tried to develop an economically cheaper and sustainable method of solid waste management and performed vermicomposting of municipal solid waste (MSW) as a circular economy-based management approach.
