Waste management and environmental impact XI
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Waste management and environmental impact XI
（WIT transactions on ecology and the environment, v. 257）
WIT Press, c2022
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Waste management and environmental impact 2022
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"... this book contains papers presented at the 11th International Conference on Waste Management and Environmental and Economic Impact on Sustainable Development."--Back cover
Includes bibliographical references and author index
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Description
Resulting from a merger of two successful events, this book contains papers presented at the 11th International Conference on Waste Management and Environmental and Economic Impact on Sustainable Development. To prevent emerging threats to environmental and ecological systems we must learn from past failures to avoid repeating similar mistakes.
Waste management is one of the key problems of modern society due to the ever-expanding volume and complexity of discarded domestic and industrial waste and its implications on health and the environment. Society is increasingly aware of the need to establish better practices and safer solutions for waste disposal. This creates a need for more research on current disposal methods such as landfills, incineration, chemical and effluent treatment, as well as recycling, clean technologies, waste monitoring, public and corporate awareness and general education.
The desired direction of waste management is towards sustainable strategies that avoid the short term solutions applied in the past. The approach which has emerged as the most promising has been called 4Rs, where reduction, reuse, recycling and recovery are seen as the best actions. More recently these concepts have given rise to the new model of the 'Circular Economy', which is based on the reuse of what up to now has been considered waste, reintroducing them into the production cycle. Further steps are required towards the improvement of current technologies, increased collaboration between the public, government and private sectors and increased involvement of all stakeholders.
The included research works put a focus on the impact of economic constraints on the environment, taking into account the social aspects as well as the over-use of natural resources, contamination and toxicity. Problems of great importance are addressed, with the goal of finding constructive and progressive approaches to ensure sustainability.
Table of Contents
- Section 1: Air, soil and water pollution Hierarchical monitoring of water quality: Coordinating the spatiotemporal resolution of multilayer and multispectral sensors to characterize pollution
- Pollution of the Vaal River System in South Africa: A case study
- Environmental impacts of reverse osmosis in wastewater treatment versus desalination to mend the water cycle: A life cycle assessment
- Macroinvertebrates as bioindicators of water quality in the metropolitan region of Panama Section 2: Circular economy Agro-waste ashes as a feeder for the synthesis of SiO2 nanoparticles for road construction
- Possibility of recycling wind turbine blades using plasma technology
- Recycling of low-density polyethylene waste to produce eco-friendly Section 3: Strategies for waste management: EU and non-EU case studies COVID-19 and municipal solid waste management
- Biomedical solid waste management in low-income contexts: The case of Beira, Mozambique
- In-depth analysis on odour dispersion modelling and its applications to waste management operations Section 4: Waste monitoring and management Proposal for the location of a waste management center on a university campus: A case study
- Machine learning techniques applied to the vehicle routing problem for waste site inspections
- Building community trust in the process of establishing a low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste storage facility: The case of Croatia
- Network structures in hazardous waste management systems: Advances, characteristics and challenges Section 5: Environmental strategies and tactics Attribution of pollution discharges in coastal waters during the COVID-19 lockdown using remote sensing and bioindicators
- Constraint mapping for avoiding adverse effects of development: The application to Point Wilson, Australia, and its aftermath
- Trends in the development of hydroxyapatite from natural sources for biomedical applications
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