From the author of Junkyard Planet, "an anthem to decluttering, recycling, making better quality goods and living a simpler life with less stuff." -Associated PressDownsizing. Decluttering. Discarding. Sooner or lat...Loe edasi...
From the author of Junkyard Planet, "an anthem to decluttering, recycling, making better quality goods and living a simpler life with less stuff." -Associated PressDownsizing. Decluttering. Discarding. Sooner or lat...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 06-Feb-2020, Hardback, Kirjastus: Bloomsbury Publishing USA, ISBN-13: 9781635570106)
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From the author of Junkyard Planet comes a global exploration of the hidden market for used stuff and a travelogue that follows unwanted, obsolescent objects’ journeys into a reusable future. Illustrations. Minters travels through the...Loe edasi...
The award-winning founder of TerraCycle profiles a near-future circular economy that relies on responsible reuse and recycling to eradicate overconsumption and waste, teaming with expert co-authors to address related issues about production, consum...Loe edasi...
This book highlights the various technologies that are currently available or are now being developed for the green and smart buildings of the future. It examines why green building performance is important, and how it can be measured and rated...Loe edasi...
This book presents the latest advances in and current research perspectives on the field of urban/industrial solid waste recycling for bio-energy and bio-fuel recovery. It chiefly focuses on five main thematic areas, namely bioreactor landf...Loe edasi...
This book mainly focuses on ecological approaches for preventing and controlling non-point source (NPS) pollution on the basis of forestry measures. In addition to the effects of ecological control, it introduces readers to the characteristics of...Loe edasi...
This book takes a new and critical look at the underlying factors that affect the management of water resources, and its content is guided by three important visions. With the “theory” vision, the existing knowledge system for IWRM is reorganized...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Mar-2016, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783319272269)
This book provides insights into the current status of waste management in India and research approaches to minimize waste and convert useful waste into energy alternatives towards achieving environmental sustainability. It also discusses the implica...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Mar-2016, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K, ISBN-13: 9783662494608)
This book focuses on the treatment anddisposal technology used for solid waste in China, puts forward an optimalmanagement scheme that takes into account the complete lifecycle, andintroduces a new technical model that reflects the synergies of re...Loe edasi...
Mahad Baawain, B.S. Choudri, Mushtaque Ahmed, Anton Purnama
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Sep-2015, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783319191225)
This book collects current scientific information on advanced technologies and management practices associated with the desalination industry in the Middle East and elsewhere around the world. The book opens with introductory chapter which briefly...Loe edasi...
Timothy G. Townsend, Jon Powell, Pradeep Jain, Qiyong Xu, Thabet Tolaymat, Debra Reinhart
Sari: Waste Management Principles and Practice
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Jul-2015, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer-Verlag New York Inc., ISBN-13: 9781493926619)
The EPA-funded study of bioreactor landfills resulted in a set of recommended approaches for bioreactor landfill design. Combining the information resulting from this effort with the other information my co-authors and I have developed in our researc...Loe edasi...
Systems engineering techniques such as optimization tools, simulation model, integrated modeling systems, management information systems, decision support tools, material flow analysis, and life cycle assessment have been developed, yet have not bee...Loe edasi...
This book describes essential and effective management for reliably ensuring public safety from radioactive wastes in Japan. This is the first book to cover many aspects of wastes from the nuclear fuel cycle to research and medical use, allowing read...Loe edasi...
The book presents some of the findings of research into China’s water quality criteria for toxic pollutants, including heavy metals, PAHs and emerging pollutant. Water quality criteria (WQC) are the scientific basis for establishing water quality...Loe edasi...
Sari: Topics in Mining, Metallurgy and Materials Engineering
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Mar-2015, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783319157139)
This book presents an overview of the characterization of electronic waste. In addition, processing techniques for the recovery of metals, polymers and ceramics are described. This book serves as a source of information and as an educational technica...Loe edasi...
This book proposes the use of coffee bagasse ash (CBA) waste as raw material to be used in ceramic formulations. The approach presented here is a solution to a current ambiental problem as CBA waste is discharged in high amounts in agriculture. The a...Loe edasi...
Environmental indicators are the first line of warning against hazards caused by humans or nature catastrophes to prevent diseases and death of living organisms. The present book covers a large variety of environmental indicators from physical-chemis...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-Sep-2014, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783319109053)
This work presents the findings of an extensive study on the state-of-the-art regarding the problem of food waste in Belarus, Estonia, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Sweden. The results show that the problem of food waste can be found at diff...Loe edasi...
After reviewing the manufacture of various lubricating oils, this handbook describes the properties of used lubrication oil and the means by which such material can be re-refined and converted once again into useful lubricants as well as other produc...Loe edasi...
Garbage doesnt exist in nature--the output of one organism is the useful input of another. So why does garbage exist in the human system? Why did it only become a problem the past century? And most importantly, how can we eliminate it--outsmart the...Loe edasi...
