Principles of Waste Management Techniques

A complete review on waste management techniques

A country’s status and reputation is more importantly determined by its cleanness. Sectors such as tourism, financial strength, public health and education all depend on clean environment. Clean environment also gives positive attitude to a human being as well as providing a glorious aesthetic environment. Though countries have achieved the successful waste management practices technically, many countries (particularly developing countries) not yet reach the objective clean environment even proper management strategies and technologies are available, the major reason is behavior of public, still citizens of most developing nations avoid keeping basic disciplines towards public cleanness. In this book, types of Wastes, environmental and health impacts of wastes during handling, Waste management techniques according to 3R principle (reduce/ reuse, recovery& recycle), Mechanical waste handling methods, Thermal treatment techniques(great incinerators, rotary kiln, fluidized bed, gasification, pyrolysis& plasma technology) or waste to energy, Composting and anaerobic digestion or biogas conversion, bioremediation (remediation types of all kinds of wastes) , Waste disposal (open dumping, disposal wells, sanitary landfills, ocean dumping), e-waste management (sources and types, handling methods, country based examples, health issues, environmental impacts), plastic waste handling (all related issues and impacts including marine plastic gyres), hazardous waste management , sea waste management and waste management policies of different countries are discussed.