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Consider Origin and Fate of Materials
One theme of this book is that inappropriate landscape design and construction—such as overpaving or invasive plantings—damages sites. Even...
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Radioactive Waste Management
Radioactive wasteRadioactive waste management is any material—liquid, solid or gas—without further use, which contains or is contaminated with...
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Examples of Pulp and Paper Mill Waste Implementation
Examples of Pulp and Paper Mill Waste Implementation are presented. Several Pulp and Paper mills – April, Inc. mills, Cartiere Burgo Verzuolo, Italy,...
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Waste water management and water quality of river Yamuna in the megacity of Delhi
The present study aims at assessing water quality of river Yamuna in one of the world’s most polluted and populated megacities, Delhi. Conductivity,...
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Generation of Waste in Pulp and Paper Mills
In the Pulp and Paper Industry several types of solid wastes and sludge are generated. Solid waste is mainly produced from pul**, deinking...
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Recycling and Reuse of Textile Effluent Sludge
In the whole world today there has been a growing awareness of the damage caused to the environment by the haphazard use of chemicals, some of which...
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Minimum Impact Mill Technologies
The Minimum Impact Mill Technologies which can meet the environmental challenges of the pulp and paper industry are discussed in this chapter. These...
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Introduction to Organic Wastes and Its Management
Each year, approximately 38 billion metric tons of organic wastes are produced all over the world. Human behaviour, consumption rate, and population...
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Environmental Consequences of Pulp and Paper Manufacture
Pulp and paper companies have faced environmental issues for many years because of the resource-intensive nature of their industry. The pulp and...
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Sustainable waste management through end-of-waste criteria development
The Waste Framework Directive
2000 /98 (WFD) contains specific requirements to define end-of-waste criteria (EWC). The main goal of EWC is to remove...
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Effect of different sulfides on cadmium distribution during sludge combustion based on experimental and thermodynamic calculation approaches
The effects of sulfur compounds on the migration of a semi-volatile heavy metal (cadmium) during sludge incineration were investigated with two...
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Bioprocessing of Metals from Packaging Wastes
Packaging refers to the covering used to protect the product inside. Metals—such as iron, copper, and their alloys, i.e., brass and bronze, have been...
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Options for Utilization of Waste
Utilization of Pulp and Paper mill solid waste for Landfilling, Land application (Composting), Vermicomposting, Incineration, Recovery of Raw...
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New Technologies for Energy Recovery from Waste
New Technologies – Pyrolysis, Direct liquefaction, Wet Air Oxidation, Super Critical Water Oxidation, Steam Reforming, Gasification (Plasma...
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Review of fly ash inertisation treatments and recycling
Fly ash (FA) is a by-product of power, and incineration plants operated either on coal and biomass, or on municipal solid waste. FA can be divided...
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Waste Not Want Not
The symbol above is synonymous with recycling but how effective is recycling and why is it important? In this chapter we explore the concept of...
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Some technical issues in managing PCBs
Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) were important industrial chemicals featuring high thermal and chemical stability and low flammability. They were...
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Emergence of Green Technologies Towards Sustainable Growth
Environmental technology (abbreviated as envirotech) or green technology (abbreviated as greentech) or clean technology (abbreviated as cleantech) is...
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Fly Ash Pollutants, Treatment and Recycling
This chapter reviews fly ash typology, composition, treatment, deposition, recycling, functional re-use, and metals and organic pollutants abatement....
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Valorization of solid waste products from olive oil industry as potential adsorbents for water pollution control—a review
The global olive oil production for 2010 is estimated to be 2,881,500 metric tons. The European Union countries produce 78.5 % of the total olive...
