360 Degree Waste Management, Volume 2

360-Degree Waste Management, Volume 2: Biomedical, Pharmaceutical, and Industrial Waste and Remediation presents an interdisciplinary approach to understanding various types of biomedical, pharmaceutical, and industrial waste, including their origin, management, recycling, disposal, effects on ecosystems, and social and economic impacts. By applying the concepts of sustainable, affordable, and integrated approaches for improvement of waste management, the book confronts social, economic, and environmental challenges. Thus, researchers, waste managers, and environmental engineers will find critical information for identifying long-term answers to problems of waste management that require complex understanding and analysis.Presenting key concepts in the management of biomedical and industrial waste, Volume 2 of 360-Degree Waste Management includes aspects on microbiology of waste management, advanced treatment processes, environmental impacts, technological developments, economics of waste management, and future implications. Provides a critical assessment of economic, social, and environmental challenges due to solid wastes highlighting sustainable management approach Describes various factors to be considered while developing waste management strategies, including techniques for reuse, reduce, recycle or recovery of solid waste and management of other wastes, such as wastes from pharmaceuticals, aluminum industry, heavy metal, and other metallurgical waste Addresses contemporary issues such as transformation of waste into value-added products Presents an interdisciplinary approach to the management of various types of biomedical, pharmaceutical, and industrial waste