| Advanced Organic Waste Management: Sustainable Practices and Approaches Contributor(s): Hait, Subrata (Editor), Mustansar Hussain, Chaudhery (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0323857922 ISBN-13: 9780323857925 Publisher: Elsevier OUR PRICE: $158.40 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 2022 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Technology & Engineering | Environmental - Waste Management - Technology & Engineering | Agriculture - Sustainable Agriculture - Science | Environmental Science (see Also Chemistry - Environmental) |
| Physical Information: 1.05" H x 7.5" W x 9.25" (1.96 lbs) 520 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Advanced Organic Waste Management: Sustainable Practices and Approaches provides an integrated holistic approach to the challenges associated with organic waste management, particularly related to sustainability, lifecycle assessment, emerging regulations, and novel approaches for resource and energy recovery. In addition to traditional techniques, such as anaerobic digestion, composting, innovative and emerging techniques of waste recycling like hydrothermal carbonization and vermicomposting are included. The book combines the fundamentals and practices of sustainable organic waste management with successful case studies from developed and developing countries, highlighting practical applications and challenges. Sections cover global organic waste generation, encompassing sources and types, composition and characteristics, focus on technical aspects related to various resource recovery techniques like composting and vermicomposting, cover various waste-to-energy technologies, illustrate various environmental management tools for organic waste, present innovative organic waste management practices and strategies complemented by detailed case studies, introduce the circular bioeconomy approach, and more. |