Environmental materials and waste: resource recovery and pollution prevention

"Contains the latest information on environmental sustainability as a wide variety of natural resources are increasingly being exploited to meet the demands of a worldwide growing population and economy. The book takes a multidisciplinary approach to fully realize the number of by-products which can be remanufactured, providing the foundation needed across disciplines to tackle this issue."--

List of contributors -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments. Recovery of resources from biowaste for pollution prevention / M.N.V. Prasad -- Destination of vinasse, a residue from alcohol industry: resource recovery and prevention of pollution / E.N.V.M. Carrilho, G. Labuto, M.Y. Kamogawa -- Biosolids enhance mine site rehabilitation and revegetation / H. Wijesekara, N.S. Bolan, P. Kumarathilaka, N. Geekiyanage, A. Kunhikrishnan, B. Seshadri, C. Saint, A. Surapaneni, M. Vithanage -- Application of biochar produced from biowaste materials for environmental protection and sustainable agriculture production / S. Mandal, A. Kunhikrishnan, N.S. Bolan, H. Wijesekara, R. Naidu -- Production and utilization of biochar from organic wastes for pollutant control on contaminated sites / A. Kumar, I.J. Schreiter, A. Wefer-Roehl, L. Tsechansky, C. Schüth, E.R. Graber -- Municipal solid waste biochar for prevention of pollution from landfill leachate / Y. Jayawardhana, P. Kumarathilaka, I. Herath, M. Vithanage -- Removal and recovery of metals by biosorbents and biochars derived from biowastes / N.K. Niazi, B. Murtaza, I. Bibi, M. Shahid, J.C. White, M.F. Nawaz, S. Bashir, M.B. Shakoor, G. Ch…