Waste treatment : reducing global waste

Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1: Assessing Global Waste Management -- Growing problem of garbage and waste -- Hazardous and nonhazardous waste -- Waste streams -- Ecosystem health -- Waste management -- Waste transport -- Landfilling -- Case Study: Birth of a throwaway society -- Separation and treatment technology -- Salvage industry -- Case Study: Denmark-a model in waste management -- Conclusion -- 2: Electronic Products And Metals -- Components of e-waste -- Household batteries -- Electronics pollution -- Heavy metals from e-waste -- White goods -- Separation and reuse -- Case Study: Community answers to surplus computers -- New technologies for reducing e-waste -- Clean computers -- Conclusion -- 3: Incineration -- Methods in municipal waste incineration -- Incineration and energy production -- Case Study: Development of the Clean Air Act -- Incinerated materials and air quality -- Hospital waste -- Clean incineration -- Risk assessment and global needs -- Conclusion -- 4: Vitrification -- History of vitrification -- High-level radioactive waste -- Properties of glass -- Handling immobilized waste -- Case Study: Hanford Nuclear Waste Site -- Innovations for vitrifying radioactive waste -- Enriched uranium and plutonium -- Conclusion -- 5: Solidification And Stabilization -- Controlling solid and liquid waste streams -- Sediment cycle -- Rachel Carson -- Solidification -- Chemical and biological stabilization -- Case Study: Sandoz chemical spill in Switzerland -- Underground disposal -- Yucca Mountain Disposal Site -- New technologies in waste stabilization -- Conclusion -- 6: Reduction And Compaction -- Nonhazardous solid waste -- Volume reduction -- Composting -- Compaction systems -- Organic fertilizers -- Paper compaction -- Products from compacted waste -- Conclusion -- 7: Wastewater Treatment -- History of sanitation -- Constituents of wastewater -- Nitrogen and phosphorus -- Wastewater treatment and disposal methods -- Septic systems -- Physical and chemical treatments -- Biological treatments -- Natural treatment systems -- Case Study: Wetland waste treatment in California -- Reclamation and reuse -- Case Study: San Diego's recycled water -- Conclusion -- 8: Future Needs -- Glossary -- Further resources -- Index.