Author: Victoria (Tex.). Department of EngineeringPublisher:
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Category : Sanitary landfills
Languages : en
Pages :
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Technical Report for Sanitary Landfill, City of Victoria
Author: Victoria (Tex.). Department of EngineeringPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sanitary landfills
Languages : en
Pages :
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Municipal Solid Waste
Author: Martin P. WanielistaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Refuse and refuse disposal
Languages : en
Pages : 444
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Waste of a Nation
Author: Assa DoronPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674986008
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
In India, you can still find the kabaadiwala, the rag-and-bone man. He wanders from house to house buying old newspapers, broken utensils, plastic bottles—anything for which he can get a little cash. This custom persists and recreates itself alongside the new economies and ecologies of consumer capitalism. Waste of a Nation offers an anthropological and historical account of India’s complex relationship with garbage. Countries around the world struggle to achieve sustainable futures. Assa Doron and Robin Jeffrey argue that in India the removal of waste and efforts to reuse it also lay waste to the lives of human beings. At the bottom of the pyramid, people who work with waste are injured and stigmatized as they deal with sewage, toxic chemicals, and rotting garbage. Terrifying events, such as atmospheric pollution and childhood stunting, that touch even the wealthy and powerful may lead to substantial changes in practices and attitudes toward sanitation. And innovative technology along with more effective local government may bring about limited improvements. But if a clean new India is to emerge as a model for other parts of the world, a “binding morality” that reaches beyond the current environmental crisis will be required. Empathy for marginalized underclasses—Dalits, poor Muslims, landless migrants—who live, almost invisibly, amid waste produced predominantly for the comfort of the better-off will be the critical element in India’s relationship with waste. Solutions will arise at the intersection of the traditional and the cutting edge, policy and practice, science and spirituality.
Municipal Solid Waste: Land disposal (EPA-600
Author: Martin P. WanielistaPublisher:
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Category : Recycling (Waste, etc.)
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Environment Abstracts
Author: Waste Disposal Site Survey
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Subcommittee on Oversight and InvestigationsPublisher:
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Category : Chemical industry
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Government Reports Announcements & Index
Author: Geoenvironmental Engineering
Author: Raymond Nen YongPublisher: Thomas Telford
ISBN: 9780727726063
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
Throughout the world there is an ever increasing awareness of the importance of environmental issues. Pollution of the natural environment is welfare. Nevertheless, economic stability and prosperity necessitate the continuation of such activities and society faces the challenge of minimising the resulting adverse effects. This substantial volume is the proceedings of the British Geotechnical Society's major conference for geo-environmental engineering of contaminated land.
Waste Age
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Environmental protection
Languages : en
Pages : 1020
Book Description
The official magazine of Waste Expo.
Assessment of the Performance of Engineered Waste Containment Barriers
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309108098
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 135
Book Description
President Carter's 1980 declaration of a state of emergency at Love Canal, New York, recognized that residents' health had been affected by nearby chemical waste sites. The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, enacted in 1976, ushered in a new era of waste management disposal designed to protect the public from harm. It required that modern waste containment systems use "engineered" barriers designed to isolate hazardous and toxic wastes and prevent them from seeping into the environment. These containment systems are now employed at thousands of waste sites around the United States, and their effectiveness must be continually monitored. Assessment of the Performance of Engineered Waste Containment Barriers assesses the performance of waste containment barriers to date. Existing data suggest that waste containment systems with liners and covers, when constructed and maintained in accordance with current regulations, are performing well thus far. However, they have not been in existence long enough to assess long-term (postclosure) performance, which may extend for hundreds of years. The book makes recommendations on how to improve future assessments and increase confidence in predictions of barrier system performance which will be of interest to policy makers, environmental interest groups, industrial waste producers, and industrial waste management industry.