Book Description:
Waste management is the collection, transport, processing, recycling or disposal of waste materials. The term usually relates to materials produced by human activity, and is generally undertaken to reduce their effect on health, aesthetics or amenity. Waste management is also carried out to reduce the materials' effect on the environment and to recover resources from them. Waste management can involve solid, liquid or gaseous substances, with different methods and fields of expertise for each. Waste management practices differ for developed and developing nations, for urban and rural areas, and for residential and industrial, producers. Management for non-hazardous residential and institutional waste in metropolitan areas is usually the responsibility of local government authorities, while management for non-hazardous commercial and industrial waste is usually the responsibility of the generator. This book concentrates on the newest research in the field.

Table of Contents:
Preface

Short Communication: Cost Effectiveness of Concrete Recycling
pp. 1-10
(Vivian W.Y. Tam, Griffith School of Engineering, Griffith University, Australia)

Research and Review Studies

Chapter 1 - Mounting Waste-The Inevitable Byproduct of Human Activities: Strategies and Policies for their Safe Management: Some Experiences from India and Australia pp. 11-91
(Rajiv K. Sinha, Gokul Bharambe, Griffith University, Australia, Jaya Nair, Murdoch University, Perth, WA)

Chapter 2 - Cleaner Production Policy and Philosophy: The Preventive Strategy of Industrial Waste Management: Some Experiences from India and Australia pp. 93-158
(Rajiv K. Sinha, Griffith University, Australia, Ashok Ghosh, A.N. College, India)

Chapter 3 - Vermiculture Revolution: A Low-Cost and Sustainable Technology for Management of Municipal and Industrial Organic Wastes (Solid and Liquid) by Earthworms With Significantly Low Greenhouse Gas Emissions pp. 159-227
(Rajiv K. Sinha, Gokul Bharambe, Griffith University, Australia, Jaya Nair, Murdoch University, Perth, WA)

Chapter 4 - By Using Vandermonde Polynomials and Spectral Methods for Aggregate Testing Optimization pp. 229-278
(Vivian W.Y. Tam, Khoa N. Le, Griffith School of Engineering, Griffith University)

Chapter 5 - Numerical Analyses on Environmental Performance Assessment pp. 279-304
(Vivian W.Y. Tam, Khoa N. Le, Griffith School of Engineering, Griffith University, Australia)

Chapter 6 - A Review on the International Requirements on Waste Management and Recycling pp. 305-328
(Vivian W.Y. Tam, Griffith School of Engineering, Griffith University, Australia, C.M. Tam, City University of Hong Kong)

Chapter 7 - Implications of waste quantity and composition on diversion rates from disposal in gaborone, Botswana pp. 329-344
(Benjamin Bolaane, University of Botswana, Gaborone)

Chapter 8 - Complexation and Antioxidant Activity of Flavonoids With Biologically Relevant Metal Ions pp. 345-367
(Sixto Domínguez, Universidad de La Laguna, Spain, Julia Torres, Paula Morales, Universidad de la República, Uruguay)

Index