This book gathers selected high-quality research papers presented at the IconSWM 2018 conference, which explore various aspects of urban mining. In addition, they discuss how to achieve sustainable waste management systems, urban mining, landfill mining, material recovery, circular economy, etc., with the aid of effective waste management practices. Additional topics covered include maximum resource circulation and efficiency, key differences between landfill mining and urban mining, and how urban mining can be combined with the concepts of circular economy and sustainability.
Chapter
1. Contribution of Optimal Equipment for ELV Recycling to the
Sustainable Development of the Serbia and the Region.
Chapter
2. A Study on
Biomedical Waste Management in Chittoor District.
Chapter
3. Knowledge and
Practice of Biomedical waste management and awareness of 3 R concept among
Staff Nurses in the Hospital - A cross sectional Study.
Chapter
4.
Utilization of Construction & Demolition (C&D) Waste and Industrial Inorganic
Wastes in Cement Manufacturing.
Chapter
5. A Review of Studies on
Environmental Performance Analysis of Construction and Demolition Waste
Management using Life Cycle Assessment.
Chapter
6. Extraction of Selected
Metals from High-Grade Waste Printed Circuit Board using Diethylene Triamine
Penta-Acetic Acid.
Chapter
7. A Comparative Study on the Cost Benefit
Analysis on Metal Recovery of WPCB using Pyrometallurgy with two different
Thermal Furnaces.
Chapter
8. Dynamic and Thermal Analysis of Electrical
Insulator Waste Reinforced Thermoset Polymer Composite.
Chapter
9. Recycling
of Polymers from WEEE: Issues, Challenges and Opportunities.
Chapter
10.
Slate Mine Waste Water, A Best Substitute for Cementation.
Dr. Sadhan Kumar Ghosh is a Professor & Former Head of the Mechanical Engineering Department, as well as the Founder Coordinator of the Centre for QMS at Jadavpur University, India. A prominent figure in the fields of Waste Management, Circular Economy, SME Sustainability, Green Manufacturing, Green Factories and TQM, he has served as the Director, CBWE, Ministry of Labour and Employment, Government of India and L&T Ltd. Prof Ghosh is the Founder and Chairman of the IconSWM and the President of the International Society of Waste Management, Air and Water, as well as the Chairman of the Indian Congress on Quality, Environment, Energy and Safety Management Systems (ICQESMS). He was awarded a Distinguished Visiting Fellowship by the Royal Academy of Engineering, UK, to work on Energy Recovery from Municipal Solid Waste in 2012. He received the Boston Pledge and NABC 2006 Award for the most eco-friendly innovation Conversion of plastics & jute waste to wealth in the ESP/50K Business Plan Competition in Houston, Texas, USA. In addition, he holds patents on waste plastic processing technology and high-speed jute ribboning technology for preventing water wastage and occupational hazards.
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