Waste management practices : municipal, hazardous, and industrial - Pichtel, John, 1957- (Boca Raton : CRC Press, 2014)
Introduction -- A brief history of waste management -- Regulatory development -- Characterization of solid waste -- Municipal solid waste collection -- Recycling solid wastes -- Municipal solid waste processing: materials recovery facilities -- Composting MSW -- Incineration of MSW -- The sanitary landfill -- Identification of hazardous waste -- Hazardous waste generator requirements -- Hazardous waste transportation -- Treatment, storage, and disposal facility requirements -- Incineration of hazardous wastes -- Hazardous waste treatment -- Land disposal of hazardous waste -- Universal wastes -- Management of used oil -- Medical and infectious wastes -- Construction and demolition debris -- Electronics waste
Previous edition: 2005
Includes bibliographical references and index
Keywords: Refuse and refuse disposal -- Management; Hazardous wastes -- Management; Factory and trade waste -- Management