Handbook of solid waste management / edited by David Gordon Wilson

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, Inc., c1977Description: x, 745 pages : illustrations ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 442295502
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • TD 791 .H36 1977
Contents:
1. History of solid-waste management -- 2. Properties of waste materials -- 3. Health and injury hazards of solid-waste treatment -- 4. Collection, transportation and mechanical handling -- 5. Mechanical processing -- 6. Thermal processing -- 7. Biological processing -- 8. Sanitary landfill -- 9. Disposal at sea -- 10. Resource and energy recovery -- 11. Managing the wastes of farm and forest -- 12. Industrial solid-waste management -- 13. Routing and siting -- 14. Estimation of solid-waste-production rates -- 15. Manpower in the solid-waste management services.
Summary: The handbook is design for quick reference as well as for larger background reading. The handbook will appeal to the intelligent layperson as an introduction to various methods of approaching solid-waste problems.
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Books Books National University - Manila LRC - Annex Relegation Room Gen. Ed. - COE GC TD 791 .H36 1977 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) c.1 Available NULIB000008150

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. History of solid-waste management -- 2. Properties of waste materials -- 3. Health and injury hazards of solid-waste treatment -- 4. Collection, transportation and mechanical handling -- 5. Mechanical processing -- 6. Thermal processing -- 7. Biological processing -- 8. Sanitary landfill -- 9. Disposal at sea -- 10. Resource and energy recovery -- 11. Managing the wastes of farm and forest -- 12. Industrial solid-waste management -- 13. Routing and siting -- 14. Estimation of solid-waste-production rates -- 15. Manpower in the solid-waste management services.

The handbook is design for quick reference as well as for larger background reading. The handbook will appeal to the intelligent layperson as an introduction to various methods of approaching solid-waste problems.

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