The Garbage Crisis

Author : Hans Y. Tammemagi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1999-12-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780195351682

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The Waste Crisis by Hans Y. Tammemagi Pdf

As populations continue to increase, society produces more and more waste. Yet it is becoming increasingly difficult to build new landfills, and the existing landfills are causing significant environmental damage. Finding solutions is not simple; the problem is enormous in size, vital in terms of its impact on the environment, and complex in scope. This book provides a vast look at solid waste management in North America and seeks solutions to the waste crisis. It describes the magnitude and complexity of the problem, focusing on municipal wastes and placing them in the perspective of other wastes such as hazardous, biochemical, and radioactive debris. It describes the components of an integrated waste management program, including recycling, composting, landfills, and waste incinerators, and it presents in detail the scientific and engineering principles underlying these technologies. To illustrate both the problems and solutions of waste management programs, the authors provide seven case histories, among them the Fresh Kills (Staten Island, New York), the East Carbon Landfill (Utah), and the Lancaster County Municipal Waste Incinerator (Pennsylvania). The Waste Crisis is unique in its attempt to analyze waste management in a broader societal context and to propose solutions based on basic principles. And by doing so, it encourages readers to challenge commonly held perceptions and to seek new and better ways of dealing with waste. As such, this book deserves a place on the bookshelf of anyone who deals with or feels the need to confront the growing problems of waste management.

Author : Randika Jayasinghe,Usman Mushtaq,Toni Smythe,Caroline Baillie
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783031021114

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Garbage Crisis by Randika Jayasinghe,Usman Mushtaq,Toni Smythe,Caroline Baillie Pdf

This book will focus on "Waste Management," a serious global issue and engineers' responsibility towards finding better solutions for its sustainable management. Solid waste management is one of the major environmental burdens in both developed and developing countries alike. An alarming rate of solid waste generation trends can be seen as a result of globalization, industrialization, and rapid economic development. However, low-income and marginalized sectors in society suffer most from the unfavorable conditions deriving from poor waste management. Solid waste management is not a mere technical challenge. The environmental impact, socio-economic, cultural, institutional, legal, and political aspects are fundamental in planning, designing, and maintaining a sustainable waste management system in any country. Engineers have a major role to play in designing proper systems that integrate stakeholders, waste system elements, and sustainability aspects of waste management. This book is part of a focused collection from a project on Engineering and Education for Social and Environmental Justice. It takes an explicitly social and environmental justice stance on waste and attempts to assess the social impact of waste management on those who are also the most economically vulnerable and least powerful in the society. We hope that this book will assist our readers to think critically and understand the framework of socially and environmentally just waste management. Table of Contents: Introduction / Towards a Just Politics of Waste Management / Expertise, Indigenous People, and the Site 41 Landfill / Waste Management in the Global North / Waste Management in the Global South: A Sri Lankan Case Study / Assessing the Feasibility of Waste for Life in the Western Province of Sri Lanka

Author : Randika Jayasinghe,Usman Mushtaq,Toni Smythe,Caroline Baillie
Publisher : Morgan & Claypool Publishers
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781608458738

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The Garbage Crisis by Randika Jayasinghe,Usman Mushtaq,Toni Smythe,Caroline Baillie Pdf

This book will focus on "Waste Management," a serious global issue and engineers' responsibility towards finding better solutions for its sustainable management. Solid waste management is one of the major environmental burdens in both developed and developing countries alike. An alarming rate of solid waste generation trends can be seen as a result of globalization, industrialization, and rapid economic development. However, low-income and marginalized sectors in society suffer most from the unfavorable conditions deriving from poor waste management. Solid waste management is not a mere technical challenge. The environmental impact, socio-economic, cultural, institutional, legal, and political aspects are fundamental in planning, designing, and maintaining a sustainable waste management system in any country. Engineers have a major role to play in designing proper systems that integrate stakeholders, waste system elements, and sustainability aspects of waste management. This book is part of a focused collection from a project on Engineering and Education for Social and Environmental Justice. It takes an explicitly social and environmental justice stance on waste and attempts to assess the social impact of waste management on those who are also the most economically vulnerable and least powerful in the society. We hope that this book will assist our readers to think critically and understand the framework of socially and environmentally just waste management. Table of Contents: Introduction / Towards a Just Politics of Waste Management / Expertise, Indigenous People, and the Site 41 Landfill / Waste Management in the Global North / Waste Management in the Global South: A Sri Lankan Case Study / Assessing the Feasibility of Waste for Life in the Western Province of Sri Lanka

Author : Christiane Dorion
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2007-01-12
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0836877535

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Earth's Garbage Crisis by Christiane Dorion Pdf

Describes how large amounts of garbage are created today, how to recycle effectively, and why it is important to reduce or eliminate garbage.

Author : Eric Verdeil
Publisher : Presses de l’Ifpo
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9782351595497

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Atlas of Lebanon by Eric Verdeil Pdf

After fifteen years of reconstruction in a relatively peaceful environment spanning the years 1990 to 2004, Lebanon has experienced successive violent political events resulting from complex entangled internal and external struggles. The Syrian crisis and its political, economic and demographic consequences on Lebanon have increased these tensions. This atlas sheds light on these new challenges and adds new data that complete the analyses already published in the Atlas du Liban. Territoires et société (Atlas of Lebanon. Territories and Society) released in 2007 by the same research team. Some of its components are included in this edition. Beyond the international regional crisis and the population movements, it takes into account Lebanon’s socio-economic dimensions, the environmental issues linked to uncontrolled urbanization and to natural risks, as well as conflicts due to local territorial management. This atlas is the result of a collaborative endeavor between French and Lebanese researchers. It uses a geographical approach that puts in the foreground a spatial analysis of social and natural phenomena. Public sources are scarce in Lebanon, especially at the local scale. They are sometimes less reliable and difficult to access. It is particularly the case for the Lebanese census data, conversely data are abundantly available on the refugees population, which is less known than the population of refugees. International data help compare Lebanon to its neighbors. Thematic data produced by some ministries are helpful to provide a detailed view regarding specific domains. Analyses processed on aerial and satellite images have produced essential data on urbanization and environment. Local thematic fieldwork surveys have provided additional data. The book consists of seven chapters. The first one deals with the territorial state-building seen in the light of regional geopolitics, and emphasizes internal violence and the reemergence of militias and armed groups that fight each other and the state army. Lebanon is once again perceived as a territory divided between multiple allegiances. The second chapter is devoted to the analysis of population dynamics, despite the lack of reliable data whose sources are subject to discussion. It includes analyses of internal population flows, the Lebanese diaspora, and the assessment of Syrian refugees’ influx. The third chapter shows the fragility of the Lebanese economic model. Its dependency on foreign investments and on...

Author : Myra J. Hird
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780228006466

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Canada's Waste Flows by Myra J. Hird Pdf

From shipments of Canadian waste rotting in developing countries to overflowing landfills and ineffective recycling programs, Canada is facing a waste crisis. Canadians are becoming increasingly aware that waste is an acute environmental and human health issue – and a complex one, the solutions to which are often contradictory. Canada's Waste Flows is an honest look at the production and movement of Canadian waste, from region to region and across the globe, and its consequences. Through a series of timely empirical case studies, the book reveals waste as less of a technological problem and more of a material, economic, political, historical, and cultural concern. Canada's Waste Flows demonstrates that Canadians are misdirecting their attention to post-consumer waste and their responsibility for minimizing it through recycling; waste must be understood as a social justice issue, and in particular as a symptom of ongoing settler colonialism. Through a comparative study of waste management in southern and northern Canadian communities, Myra Hird argues that we will only resolve our waste crisis through democratic engagement. A critical and compelling book that will generate conversation and incite change, Canada's Waste Flows uncovers how Canada's role as a global leader in waste production and export is key to changing Canada's waste future.

Author : Stuart A. Kallen
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781512413144

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Trashing the Planet by Stuart A. Kallen Pdf

Globally, humans produce 1.3 billion tons of garbage every year. Discover the causes and proposed solutions for the global garbage glut, examining pollution on land, in the ocean, in the air, and in space.

Author : Newsday Inc.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1989-07
Category : Nature
ISBN : UOM:39015014905718

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Rush to Burn by Newsday Inc. Pdf

This book tells the story of the Mobro 4000, a barge full of garbage, and the issues it came to symbolize, and then discusses why communities are turning to incineration for their garbage.

Author : William Murray,Canada. Library of Parliament. Research Branch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 17 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Recycling (Waste, etc.)
ISBN : 0660165619

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The Garbage Crisis by William Murray,Canada. Library of Parliament. Research Branch Pdf

Author : Sahadat Hossain,H. James Law,Araya Asfaw
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781119811930

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The Waste Crisis by Sahadat Hossain,H. James Law,Araya Asfaw Pdf

The Waste Crisis Explore modern solutions to the most critical issues in waste management policy and design In The Waste Crisis: Roadmap for Sustainable Waste Management in Developing Countries, an accomplished team of sustainability researchers deliver a concise insight of modern waste management practices that acts as a handbook for waste management professionals. Along with flow charts and example problems, the authors offer readers the information necessary to support decision making based on country, city size, population, waste generation volume, type, geographical location, and more. The book begins with an overview of current waste management practices, including waste generation, collection, processing, composting, recycling, and disposal. It moves on to a series of case studies from over ten countries and presentations of sustainable waste management strategies. The Waste Crisis: Roadmap for Sustainable Waste Management in Developing Countries concludes with a series of practical and effective final recommendations for future best practices. It also includes: Practical discussions of material flow, cost-effective material recovery, anaerobic digestion, composting, recycling, disposal, training, and human capacity building Comprehensive explorations of unique and robust decision-making strategies for designers, policy makers, and regulators In-depth treatments of ready-to-implement waste management systems perfect for systems designers The Waste Crisis: Roadmap for Sustainable Waste Management in Developing Countries is an indispensable resource for waste, recycling, and resource management professionals. It???s also perfect for waste management system designers and decision makers seeking a one-stop guide to issues of sustainability in the developing world.

Author : Martin O'Brien
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135900281

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A Crisis of Waste? by Martin O'Brien Pdf

This book takes a measured look at the 'crisis of waste' in modern society and it does so historically, sociologically and critically. It tells stories about past and present ‘crises’ of waste and puts them in their appropriate social and industrial contexts. From Charles Dickens to Don DeLillo, from the internal combustion engine to fish fingers, from kitchen grease to the Tour de France this book digs deep into society’s dust piles and emerges with untold treasures of the imagination.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Subcommittee on Environment
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Medical
ISBN : PSU:000019983264

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The Long Island Solid Waste Crisis and Toxic Chemical Exposure-induced Breast Cancer by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Subcommittee on Environment Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Refuse and refuse disposal
ISBN : UCR:31210013216427

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The Garbage Problem by Anonim Pdf

Author : Raymond G. Stokes,Roman Köster,Stephen C. Sambrook
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107027213

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The Business of Waste by Raymond G. Stokes,Roman Köster,Stephen C. Sambrook Pdf

This book compares the evolution of the household refuse business in Britain and Germany since 1945.

Author : William L. Rathje,Cullen Murphy
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0816521433

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Rubbish! by William L. Rathje,Cullen Murphy Pdf

It is from the discards of former civilizations that archaeologists have reconstructed most of what we know about the past, and it is through their examination of today's garbage that William Rathje and Cullen Murphy inform us of our present. Rubbish! is their witty and erudite investigation into all aspects of the phenomenon of garbage. Rathje and Murphy show what the study of garbage tells us about a population's demographics and buying habits. Along the way, they dispel the common myths about our "garbage crisis"—about fast-food packaging and disposable diapers, about biodegradable garbage and the acceleration of the average family's garbage output. They also suggest methods for dealing with the garbage we do have.