An Introduction to Waste Management and Circular Economy
This introductory textbook provides an essential interdisciplinary guide to waste management and circular economy. It helps students to understand the drivers of waste, the environmental, social, and economic impacts of waste generation, and best practices and technologies for waste management, recy...
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2023.
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| 505 | 0 | |a Abbreviations -- SI units and prefixes -- List of boxes -- List of exercises -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Materials and waste -- The impacts of waste -- Assessment methods -- Policy and legislation -- Waste prevention -- Collection and treatment -- Waste recycling -- Energy recovery and disposal -- The circular economy -- Further reading -- References -- Index | |
| 520 | 0 | |a This introductory textbook provides an essential interdisciplinary guide to waste management and circular economy. It helps students to understand the drivers of waste, the environmental, social, and economic impacts of waste generation, and best practices and technologies for waste management, recycling, energy recovery and disposal. With helpful, full-colour diagrams throughout, each chapter includes learning objectives, introduction to concepts and themes, exercises and review sections, to guide students through the book. The textbook is ideal for teaching environmental engineering and science, as well as interdisciplinary environmental programmes. | |
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