Author: Kevin MulliganPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Recycling (Waste, etc.)
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Operating a Recycling Program
Author: Kevin MulliganPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Recycling (Waste, etc.)
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Solid Waste Recycling and Processing
Author: Marc J. RogoffPublisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0323221270
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
Solid Waste Recycling and Processing, Second Edition, provides best-practice guidance to solid waste managers and recycling coordinators. The book covers all aspects of solid waste processing, volume reduction, and recycling, encompassing typical recyclable materials (paper, plastics, cans, and organics), construction and demolition debris, electronics, and more. It includes techniques, technologies, and programs to help maximize customer participation rates and revenues, as well as to minimize operating costs. The book is packed with lessons learned by the author during the implementation of the most successful programs worldwide, and includes numerous case studies showing how different systems work in different settings. This book also takes on industry debates such as the merits of curbside-sort versus single-stream recycling and the use of advanced technology in materials recovery facilities. It provides key facts and figures, and brief summaries of legislation in the United States, Europe, and Asia. An extensive glossary demystifies the terminology and acronyms used in different sectors and geographies. The author also explains emerging concepts in recycling such as zero waste, sustainability, LEED certification, and pay-as-you-throw, and places waste management and recycling in wider economic, environmental (sustainability), political, and societal contexts. - Covers single- and mixed-waste streams - Evaluates the technologies and tradeoffs of recycling of materials vs. integrated solutions, including combustion and other transformational options - Covers recycling as part of the bigger picture of solid waste management, processing and disposal
Paper Matcher
Author: Publisher: DIANE Publishing Inc.
ISBN: 9781568069470
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Hazardous Waste Requirements for Large Quantity Generators
Author: Facing America's trash
Author: Do-Not-Call Improvement Act of 2007
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and TransportationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Consumer protection
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
Big Hunger
Author: Andrew FisherPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262535165
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
How to focus anti-hunger efforts not on charity but on the root causes of food insecurity, improving public health, and reducing income inequality. Food banks and food pantries have proliferated in response to an economic emergency. The loss of manufacturing jobs combined with the recession of the early 1980s and Reagan administration cutbacks in federal programs led to an explosion in the growth of food charity. This was meant to be a stopgap measure, but the jobs never came back, and the “emergency food system” became an industry. In Big Hunger, Andrew Fisher takes a critical look at the business of hunger and offers a new vision for the anti-hunger movement. From one perspective, anti-hunger leaders have been extraordinarily effective. Food charity is embedded in American civil society, and federal food programs have remained intact while other anti-poverty programs have been eliminated or slashed. But anti-hunger advocates are missing an essential element of the problem: economic inequality driven by low wages. Reliant on corporate donations of food and money, anti-hunger organizations have failed to hold business accountable for offshoring jobs, cutting benefits, exploiting workers and rural communities, and resisting wage increases. They have become part of a “hunger industrial complex” that seems as self-perpetuating as the more famous military-industrial complex. Fisher lays out a vision that encompasses a broader definition of hunger characterized by a focus on public health, economic justice, and economic democracy. He points to the work of numerous grassroots organizations that are leading the way in these fields as models for the rest of the anti-hunger sector. It is only through approaches like these that we can hope to end hunger, not just manage it.
McGraw-Hill Recycling Handbook, 2nd Edition
Author: Herbert F. LundPublisher: McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN: 9780070391567
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 1112
Book Description
This edition covers the following topics - medical waste recycling, recycling old, closed landfills, recycling sports stadiums, malls, and amusement parks, flow control legal decisions and recycling product development.
Project Learning Tree
Author: Glass Waste
Author: Kingston University (London, England)Publisher: Thomas Telford
ISBN: 9780727732842
Category : Construction and demolition debris
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
The three volumes from part of the Proceedings of the two-day International Conference organised by the Concrete and Masonry Research Group within the School of Engineering at Kingston University, held in September 2004. The Conference deals with issues such as the regulatory framework, government policy, waste management, processing, recovery, the supply network, recycling opportunities, sustainable ways forward and the economics of sustainability.