Encyclopedia of Environmental Control Technology Volume 5

As landfills are closed and new and stricter legislation enacted, the problems of waste and pollution grow ever larger. Re-engineering production lines to reduce the source of unusable by-products is one answer, and developing new technologies to make use of these materials another. Recycling provides an immediate solution, and it is one that is becoming more and more popular in a variety of industries ranging from styrene to steel to newsprint. Like the other titles in the "Encyclopedia of Environmental Control Technology" series, this volume draws on contributors from around the world who are engaged in finding ways to solve the problems of waste and devising new strategies for recycling.

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.