Encyclopedia of Environmental Control Technology: Volume 5

• Disposable, degradable and recyclable; overcoming obstacles to pollution prevention - an integrated approach; paper recycling; methods and benefits of steel can recycling; problems with plastics wastes; plastics packaging waste management; extraction and reuse of glass fiber polyester; physical and morphological measures of waste solidification effectiveness; recycling wastes in agriculture; municipal solid waste incineration; minimizing emissions from resource recovery; solid waste incineration; minimizing emissions from resource recovery; coal flyash utilization; use of flyash in waste minimization; reuse of contaminated soils; reuse of petroleum contaminated soils in asphalt concrete; stabilization/fixation methods for waste minimization; reducing air emissions of solvents from metal cleaning; ion exchange technology for wastes recovery; wastewater reuse for petroleum refining; recycling and reuse of byproducts in integrated steel plants; utilization of waste gypsum; drying and pelletization of sludge; waste minimization and recovery methods in the kraft paper pulping process for paper manufacture; selecting approaches for remediating contaminated sites; composting.

"Engineers, planners, government officials, executives, and attorneys interested in waste minimization and recycling and its impact on the environment should find Volume 5 helpful in identifying options available for addressing specific pollution problems." --Applied Mechanics Reviews