This book covers environmental and economic waste treatment with resource recovery strategies covering mining, urban, agricultural, industrial, and sewage wastes. It includes waste management, life-cycle assessment, recycling, and recovering valuable materials from blast furnace slags, iron ore, coal, and bauxite mining. Wastewater recycling, reuse, treatment methods, and economic gain through nanotechnology are covered, along with biochemical study cycles in mining waste and tailing, landfill stabilization, energy, and nutrient recovery from household, urban, and hazardous waste. Features:Includes details on the generation and composition of hazardous wastesFocuses on practices in waste management followed in developing countriesIllustrates the concept of energy and resource recoveryExplains ethical, innovative management strategies dealing with solid, biomedical, and chemical wastesDiscusses sustainable nanotechnology and engineered materials for treatment of biological and chemical pollutants in wastewaterThis book is aimed at researchers and graduate students in environmental engineering and management.
