SOLID WASTE: ASSESSMENT, MONITORING AND REMEDIATION, 4
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By I. Twardowska, Polish Academy of Science, Institute of Environmental Engineering, Zabre, Poland H.E. Allen, Centre for the Study of Metals in the Environment, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA A.F. Kettrup, Institute of Ecological Chemistry, GSF-National Research Centre for Environment & Health, Neuherberg, Germany W.J. Lacy, Alexandria, VA, USA
Description This book covers a broad group of wastes, from biowaste to hazardous waste, but primarily the largest (by mass and volume) group of wastes
that are not hazardous, but also are not inert, and are problematic for three major reasons: (1) they are difficult to manage because
of their volume: usually they are used in civil engineering as a common fill etc., where they are exposed to environmental conditions
almost the same way as at disposal sites; (2) they are not geochemically stable and in the different periods of environmental exposure
undergo transformations that might add hazardous properties to the material that are not displayed when it is freshly generated; (3)
many designers and researchers in different countries involved in waste management are often not aware of time-delayed adverse environmental
impact of some large-volume waste, and also do not consider some positive properties that may extend the area of their environmentally
beneficial application.
Contents
I. Introduction.
1. Solid waste: What is it? (I. Twardowska).
2. Solid waste origins: sources, trends, quality, quantity
(I. Twardowska, H.E. Allen).
II. Legislation, regulations and management strategies.
1. Regulatory frameworks as an
instrument of waste management strategies (I. Twardowska, W.J. Lacy).
2. The Basel Convention and its implementation (I. Rummel-Bulska).
III. Chemical pollution potential from solid waste: Short- and long-term effect.
1. Assessment of pollution potential
from solid waste (I. Twardowska).
2. Agricultural wastes (T. Al Seadi, J.B. Holm-Nielsen).
3. Agrochemicals: transport potential in
the vadose and saturated zones (K.-P. Seiler).
4. Sewage sludge (I. Twardowska, K.-W. Schramm, K. Berg).
5. Dredged material (W. Calmano,
U. Forstner).
6. Mining waste (J. Szczepanska, I. Twardowska).
7. Coal combustion waste (I. Twardowska, J. Szczepanska).
IV.
Advances in solid waste characterization and monitoring.
1. The changing face of environmental monitoring (D. Friedman).
2.
Identification of unknown solid waste (Tung-ho Chen).
3. Remote monitors for in situ characterization of hazardous wastes (T. Vo-Dinh).
4. Advanced biomonitoring of solid waste and waste disposal facilities.
4.1. Biomonitors based on immunological principles (D. Knopp,
R. Nissner).
4.2. A simple cleanup procedure and bioassay for determining TCDD-toxicity equivalents of environmental samples (K.-W.
Schramm, A.A.F. Kettrup).
5. Principles of vadose and saturated zones monitoring in solid waste sites exemplified in mining waste dumps
(J. Szczepanska, I. Twardowska).
6. Specimen banking as a source of retrospective baseline data and a tool for assessment and management
of long-term environmental trends (A.A.F. Kettrup, P. Marth).
7. QA/QC in solid waste characterization, waste disposal monitoring and
waste management practice - quality assurance: organizational - catalytic - technical (G.F. Simes).
V. Evaluation and prognosis
of the vadose zone and groundwater pollution and protection at solid waste disposal sites.
1. Modeling reactive metal transport
in soils (M.C. Amacher, H. Magdi Selim).
2. Modeling bioavailability of PAH in soils (W.H. Rulkens et al.).
3. Computer modeling
of organic pollutant transport to groundwater - exemplified by SNAPS (H. Behrendt, R. Bruggemann, G. Nutzmann).
4. Evaluating the susceptibility
of aquifers to pollution (K.-P. Seiler).
5. Regional prediction of the transport of contaminants from the flotation tailings dam (R.
Duda).
6. Design of a groundwater protection system at an inactive hazardous waste disposal facility (A.C. Bumb).
VI. Advanced/emerging
solid waste use, disposal and remediation practice.
1. Utilization of organic wastes - one of the major tasks of today's waste
management policies (T. Al Seadi, J.B. Holm-Nielsen).
2. Success stories of composting in the European Union - Leading experiences and
developing situations: ways to success (E. Favoino).
3. Thermal waste treatment - a necessary element for sustainable waste management
(P.H. Brunner, L. Morf, H. Rechberger).
4. Municipal landfills - A case study: remediation and reclamation at Nanji Island (South
Korea) (C.G. Uchrin, S.S. Park).
5. Recycling of plastic waste, rubber waste and end-of-life cars in Germany (P. Dreher et al.).
6. High-volume mining waste disposal (I. Twardowska, S. Stefaniak, J. Szczepanska).
7. Use of selected waste materials and biofertilizers
for industrial solid waste reclamation (A.S. Juwarkar, A. Juwarkar, P. Khanna).
8. Bulk use of power plant fly ash in deep mines and
at the surface for contaminant and fire control (I. Twardowska).
9. Agricultural utilization of coal combustion residues (U. Kukier,
M.E. Sumner).
10. Hazardous waste site remediation technology selection (E.J. Martin, R.C. Chawla, J.T. Swartzbaugh).
11. Innovative
soil and groundwater remediation: the SITE program experience (A. Gatchett, R.A. Olexsey).
VII. New developments in solid waste
information and environmental control strategies.
1. The clean, green net: environmental computer resources under construction
(W.B. DeVille).
2. Solid waste management policies for the 21st century (J.H. Skinner).
Subject Index.
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