Waste management Books

Table of Contents1. The Myth 2. Frankenstein's Bottle: A Problem of Math 3. The Throwaway Supply Chain 4. The Happy Cup Fallacy 5. Bottles Grown from the Soil 6. It's in Our Blood 7. Something Needs to Be Done! 8. Solutions—Extending the Supply Chain to Nature 9. 2020: The Happy Cup Reality Notes Index

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Trade ReviewGiven the crucial importance of this topic and the author's insightful approach, this well-written volume has much to offer students and specialists at all levels…Summing Up: Highly recommended. All academic levels. * Choice *Table of ContentsChapter 1 What Is Peak Plastic? Chapter 2 The Good, Bad, and Unknown of Plastic Chapter 3 The Waste-Driven Supply Chain Chapter 4 2030: A Plastic Tipping Point (Peak Plastic) Chapter 5 The Alternative to Peak Plastic: Exponential Thinking Chapter 6 Solution 1: Stop the Bleeding Chapter 7 Solution 2: Open-Source/Access Plastic (Open-Source Capitalism) Chapter 8 Solution 3: Sustainable Polymerization Chapter 9 Solution 4: A Closed-Loop System for Plastic Chapter 10 Solution 5: Fixing the Invisibility Problem Chapter 11 Summary: Make It Happen! Index

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Book SynopsisThis book focuses on the crucial sustainability challenge of reducing food waste at the level of consumer-society. Providing an in-depth, research-based overview of the multifaceted problem, it considers environmental, economic, social and ethical factors. Perspectives included in the book address households, consumers, and organizations, and their role in reducing food waste. Rather than focusing upon the reasons for food waste itself, the chapters develop research-based solutions for the problem, providing a much-needed solution-orientated approach that takes multiple perspectives into account.Chapters 1, 2, 12 and 16 of this book are available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.comTable of Contents1 Introduction: Solutions for managing food waste Elina Närvänen, Nina Mesiranta, Malla Mattila and Anna Heikkinen PART I: Changing the behaviour of actors at distribution and consumption levels 2 Household food waste – how to avoid it? An integrative review Lisanne van Geffen, Erica van Herpen and Hans van Trijp 3 Nudging in food waste management: Where sustainability meets cost-effectiveness Anna de Visser-Amundson and Mirella Kleijnen 4 Managerial practices of reducing food waste in supermarkets Christine Moser PART II: Connecting actors and activities within systems 5 The evolution of the German anti-food waste movement: Turning sustainable ideas into business Johanna F. Gollnhofer and Daniel Boller 6 Distributed agency in food waste – A focus on non-human actors in retail setting Lotta Alhonnoro, Hanna Leipämaa-Leskinen and Henna Syrjälä 7 Between kitchen sink and city sewer: A socio-ecological approach to food waste in environmental design Ellen Burke and N. Claire Napawan 8 Creating resilient interventions to food waste: Aligning and leveraging systems and design thinking Danielle Lake, Amy McFarland and Jody Vogelzang PART III: Constituting socio–cultural meanings 9 Assumptions about consumers in food waste campaigns: A visual analysis Ulla-Maija Sutinen 10 From scarcity to abundance: Food waste themes and virtues in agrarian and mature consumer society Outi Uusitalo and Tuomo Takala 11 Mobilising consumers for food waste reduction in Finnish media discourse Liia-Maria Raippalinna Part IV: Innovating practical solutions 12 Insect-based bioconversion: Value from food waste Trevor M. Fowles and Christian Nansen 13 Gleaning: Turning food waste at farms into marketable products Christine M. Kowalczyk, Brian Taillon and Laura Hearn 14 Exploring food waste reducing apps – A business model lens Fabio de Almeida Oroski 15 ECOWASTE4FOOD project: Cases for food waste reduction at city and regional levels in the EU Samuel Féret 16 From measurement to management: Food waste in the Finnish food chain Hanna Hartikainen, Inkeri Riipi, Juha-Matti Katajajuuri and Kirsi Silvennoinen

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Book SynopsisThis book surveys state-of-the-art and prospective practices, methods and technologies in agri-food and forestry sectors to document the potential measurable improvements in areas of environmental management, food security, economic growth, social cohesion and human health at the local and global scale. With a focus on the ecosystems-resources-climate-food-health nexus as a framework towards achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals applicable in these sectors, the book offers a portfolio of guidelines and standards that assesses the affordability, potential profitability and possible unintended consequences of interventions. The areas of intervention covered in the study include global and local forest resources management, safe wastewater reuse for irrigation, sustainable crop and plant protection (e.g. biopesticides, bioherbicides), carbon sequestration and emission reduction strategies, and safe processing methods for food and food waste (e.g. sustainable food preservatives and healthier food). The book is primarily intended for academics, professionals, and policymakers. The professional audience, including enterprises in the forestry, farming, food processing, healthcare and waste management sectors, will take advantage of the updated knowledge basis concerning the innovations in the respective practices, methods and technologies, including their feasibility, affordability and profitability, and policymakers will find useful the comprehensive review of these innovations which could be strategically promoted and deployed in the next decade, with the aim of achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Sustainability in a highly interconnected world.- Chapter 2. Technological sustainability: efficient and green process intensification.- Chapter 3. Forest management for climate protection.- Chapter 4. Forest ecosystem service for human health.- Chapter 5. Sustainable crop protection and farming.- Chapter 6. Water conservation and resources efficiency in agriculture.- Chapter 7. Sustainable and affordable technologies for food processing.- Chapter 8. Sustainable exploitation of agro-food waste.

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Book SynopsisSolid Waste Management.- History of Composting.- Basics of Composting.- Present Technological Options.- Rotary Drum Composting (Generalized).- Rotary Drum Composting of Municipal Solid Waste.- Rotary Drum Composting of Sewage and industrial Sludge.- Rotary Drum Composting of Aquatic Weeds.- Rotary Drum Composting of Agricultural Residues/terrestrial Weeds.- Problems Associated with Composting and its Application.

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Book SynopsisHydrogeology and the Global Significance of Groundwater.- Towards Sustainable Groundwater Management in Kuwait: Strategic Directions.- Impacts of Artisanal Small-Scale Mining and Climate Change on Groundwater Security: The Case of the Global South.- Groundwater and public health: understanding the links and mitigating risks.- Effect of groundwater -lake interaction on water and salinity balance for lakes in arid regions.- Groundwater in arid and semi-arid regions: issues of scarcity and quality.- Machine learning techniques in hydrogeological research.- Groundwater salinization in coastal regions and the control mechanisms: Insights for sustainable groundwater development and management.- Characteristics of groundwater level dynamics in Xi'an (2010-2020) and groundwater level prediction for 2030 using regression analysis and BP neural network.- Evaluating Uranium Toxicity in Groundwater and Associated Health Risks in a Hard Rock Aquifer, South India.- Groundwater Resources Availability in the Shangzhou Basin Area, China: A Modeling Research.- Utilization of Green Chemistry Nano-Emulsion in remediation of Real Contaminated Coastal Sediments by HOCs and Pb to Protect Shallow Aquifer.- Magnetic Induction on pH, Oxidation-reduction Potential, Conductivity and Dissolved Oxygen Level of Water and Its Properties: A State-of-the-art Review.- The deficit Libres-Oriental aquifer (Balsas region) of eastern-central Mexico under global warming: hydrochemistry, moisture recycling and rock-water interaction.- Radionuclides as environmental contaminants of concern: threats to public health through soil and groundwater.- Future Research Imperatives in Hydrogeology.

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Book SynopsisAgro-industrial waste as a potential raw material for multiple products and promotion of a circular economy.- The use of bio-oil derived from the pyrolysis of biomass in the formulation of new medications.- Biochar and bonechar produced with agro-industrial waste in water treatment and immobilization of residual herbicides in the soil.- Recent advances of silk fibroin nanoparticles associated with Amazon oils: Potential larvicidal activity against Aedes aegypti.- How to value açaí waste and make its production chain more sustainable?- Challenges, opportunities, and future perspectives regarding the valorization of agro-industrial waste.

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Book SynopsisIntroduction.- Municipal Solid Waste Management.- E-waste Management.- Plastic Waste Management.- Biomedical Waste Management.- Construction & Demolition Waste Management.- Hazardous Waste Management.- Agricultural Waste Management.- Industrial Waste Management.- Food Waste Management.- Waste-to-Energy Technologies.- Waste Minimization and 3R Strategies.- Circular Economy and Waste Management.- Policy and Regulatory Frameworks for Sustainable Waste Management.- Financing Sustainable Waste Management.- Technology Transfer and Capacity Building for Sustainable Waste Management.- Social and Environmental Impacts of Sustainable Waste Management.- Waste Management in Informal Settlements.- Waste Management in Disaster and Emergency Situations.- Future Directions in Sustainable Waste Management in Developing Countries.

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