Waste Management and Resource Recycling in the Developing World

1st Edition - December 8, 2022
Editors: Pardeep Singh, Pramit Verma, Rishikesh Singh, Arif Ahamad, André C. S. Batalhão
Language: English
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Waste Management and Resource Recycling in the Developing World provides a unique perspective on the state of waste management and resource recycling in the developing world, offering practical solutions based on innovative tools and technologies, along with examples and case studies. The book is organized by waste type, including electronic, industrial and biomedical/hazardous, with each section covering advanced techniques, such as remote sensing and GIS, as well as socioeconomic factors, transnational transport and policy implications. Waste managers, environmental scientists, sustainability practitioners, and engineers will find this a valuable resource for addressing the challenges of waste management in the developing world.

There is high potential for waste management to produce energy and value-added products. Sustainable waste management based on a circular economy not only improves sanitation, it also provides economic and environmental benefits. In addition to waste minimization, waste-to-economy and waste-to-energy have become integral parts of waste management practices. A proper waste management strategy not only leads to reduction in environmental pollution but also moves toward generating sufficient energy for improving environmental sustainability in coming decades.

1. Waste generation in Brazil: municipal, agricultural and industrial wastes

2. Generation of Waste: Problem to Possible Solution in Developing and Underdeveloped Nations

3. Use of participatory methodologies to improve the Urban Solid Waste Management System in Cape Verde – Sal Island

4. Waste Characterization in Brazil

5. E-Waste Management– Sources, Strategies, Impacts and Consequences

6. Translational Transport of E-Waste and implications on human well beings and the environment

7. Electronic (e-waste) Conduct: Chemical assessment and treatment methods

8. Biological methods for the treatment of e-waste

9. Chemical Methods for the treatment of e-waste

10. E-Waste Management Using Different Cost-Effective, Eco-friendly Biological Techniques: An Overview

11. Life cycle assessment of e-waste management: Current practices and future research agenda towards sustainability

12. E-waste: Policies and Legislations for a sustainable green growth

13. E-waste policies and implementation: a global perspective

14. The future of e-waste in the circular economy of Ghana: Implications for urban planning, environmental and human health risks

15. The role of the informal sector on e-waste management: a case study from Brazil

16. Recent Perspectives of Nanoparticles in Industrial Waste Management-an overview

17. Advances in industrial waste management

18. Nano- and microplastics in the environment: a potential threat to in-situ bioremediation of wastewaters

19. Biological Methods For The Treatment Of Industrial Waste

20. Adsorptive Removal Of Hazardous Dyes From Industrial Waste Using Activated Carbon: An Appraisal

21. Hazardous waste management lessons from developed countries

22. Hazardous biomedical waste management scenario of the developing countries

23. Chemical methods for the treatment of biomedical hazardous waste

24. Advances in Biomedical waste management technologies

25. Biological treatment of pharmaceutical wastes

26. Municipal solid waste management, its fate and waste-to-energy in the context of a developing economy like India

27. Applications of waste-to-economy practices in urban water sector: Implications for Environmentaland Human health

28. Cost-benefit analysis act as a tool for evaluation of waste to the economy: A synthesis

29. Conversion of waste materials into different by-products of economic value

30. Vermicomposting – the sustainable Solid Waste Management

31. Sustainability Of Biorefineries For Waste Management

32. Municipal solid waste management in Brazil: overview and trade-offs between different treatment technologies

33. Waste management practices in a developing nation: Challenges and opportunities

Pardeep Singh

Dr. Pardeep Singh is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Environmental Science, PGDAV College, University of Delhi, in New Delhi, India. He obtained his PhD at the Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University) Varanasi. Dr. Singh has published more than 65 papers in international journals in the fields of waste management, environmental pollution, and agricultural nanotechnology, and has co-edited 30 books.

Affiliations and expertise

Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Studies, PGDAV College, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India

Pramit Verma

Pramit Verma is a Senior Research Fellow at Institute of Environment & Sustainable Development, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. His research interests are in the socioeconomic dynamics, urban energy flow, urban land use/land cover change, biostatistics and ecological modelling. He is currently working in the field of Urban Ecology. He has also worked in the field of urban climate disaster risk reduction and management. He has published several research articles in international journals.

Affiliations and expertise

Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India

Rishikesh Singh

Dr. Rishikesh Singh has completed his PhD from Institute of Environment & Sustainable Development, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. His research interests are in soil carbon dynamics, land- use change and management, emerging agronomic practices, biochar and carbon sequestration. His current research assignment is based on environmental impact analysis of traditional and emergent agronomic practices in Indo-Gangetic Plains of India. He has published several research and review articles and is a reviewer of several international journals of Elsevier, Taylor and Francis and Springer Nature groups.

Affiliations and expertise

Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India

Arif Ahamad

Dr. Arif Ahamad is presently working as an Assistant Professor (Department of Environmental Science, Daulatram College, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India). He has obtained his master’s degree from the Department of Environmental Science, Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi, India in 2011. He obtained his M.Phil. degree in 2014 and doctorate degree in 2019 from the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. The area of his doctoral research is Potentially Toxic Elements (PTEs) in the Groundwater, Soil and Road dust from the Industrial area in Sonbhadra district, Uttar Pradesh, India. He has published more than 10 papers/Book chapters in international and national publishing house in the field of ground water and surface water contamination, wastewater effluent, and landfills as a source of contamination and human health risk assessment. Apart from these several papers are under review. He has also written some editorial articles in popular English newspapers. He presented his research works on several national and international platforms.

Affiliations and expertise

Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Science, Daulatram College, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India

André C. S. Batalhão

He has been working as a researcher, professor, and consultant in Planning and Sustainability Management, specifically with Sustainability Indicators and other manageable metrics. External consultant in sustainability assessment at the European Environment Agency (EEA), Copenhagen, Denmark. Researcher at CENSE – Center for Environmental and Sustainability Research, NOVA School of Science & Technology, NOVA University Lisbon, Caparica, Portugal. Post-Doctorate in Organizational Administration at the Faculty of Economics, Administration and Accounting of Ribeirão Preto (FEARP), University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil. Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences by Federal University of Goiás (CIAMB/UFG), Brazil, and NOVA University Lisbon, Portugal. Member of the International Sustainable Development Research Society (ISDRS). Researcher at Public Strategy for Sustainable Development (PS4SD), Brussels, Belgium.

Affiliations and expertise

Professor, Dr., CENSE – Center for Environmental and Sustainability Research, NOVA School of Science and Technology, NOVA University Lisbon Caparica, Portugal