With background material on environmental contamination, media, and costs, this book presents a clear, concise methodology for conducting an environmental site assessment. After a brief overview of liability concerns and important terms, this book offers a useful comparison of p…
"The idea of "Zero-Waste Engineering" has been developing over years, in many areas of engineering, such as energy production (renewable energy), construction (green buildings), and many others. This book is a huge step in the continued march toward truly sustainable engineering…
Biorefineries are an essential technology in converting biomass into biofuels or other useful materials. This book provides a comprehensive overview of biorefining processing techniques and technologies, and the biofuels and other materials produced. Part one focuses on methods …
Addressing the economics of waste
An "understanding of the economic issues involved can facilitate policy measures to limit waste generation, and to promote environmentally benign ways of handling the waste."--Page 7.
Addressing the economics of waste
The Workshop held by OECD in October 2003, in Paris, France, brought together leading experts to take stock of "the state of the art" on the economics of waste and to help select topics on which the OECD could usefully do additional work. The book comprises the Workshop papers b…
As recently as the 1880s, most American cities had no effective means of collecting and removing the mountains of garbage, refuse, and manure--over a thousand tons a day in New York City alone--that clogged streets and overwhelmed the senses of residents. In his landmark study, …
Archaeologists and anthropologists have long studied artifacts of refuse from the distant past as a portal into ancient civilizations, but examining what we throw away today tells a story in real time and becomes an important and useful tool for academic study. Trash is studied …
"Before the twentieth century, streets and bodies stank, but trash was nearly nonexistent. With goods and money scarce, everything possible was reused."--BOOK JACKET. "In the last hundred years, that way of life has been replaced by mass consumption, disposable goods, and waste …
This book uses eclectic, triangulated methods to explore the socio-economics of waste and of the commodity chains involved in recycling. Known as ‘unorganised’ in India, this part of the informal economy is anything but that. In developing theoretical ideas about poverty, agen…
