Waste: A Handbook for Management gives the broadest, most complete coverage of waste in our society. The book examines a wide range of waste streams, including:

1. A  History of Waste Management 2. Green Engineering and Sustainable Design Aspects of Waste Management3. Waste Regulations with special emphasis to the USA 4. Waste Collection 5. Mine Waste: A Brief Overview of Origins, Quantities and Methods of Storage6. Metal Waste 7. Radioactive Waste Management8. Municipal Waste Management 9. Waste Water: Reuse of Oriented Wastewater  - Low- and High-Tech Approaches for Urban Areas10. Recovered Paper  11. Glass Waste12. Textile Waste13. Chemicals in Waste: Household Hazardous Waste 14. Reusing Non-hazardous Industrial Waste across Business Clusters15. Construction Waste 1. 16.Thermal Waste Treatment 16. Plastic solid waste (PSW) and thermo-chemical treatment  17. Air pollution (including pollution due to Coal and Oil  Burning, Cement Making and Automobile exhaust pollution   18. Ocean pollution19. Electronic Waste 20. Tyres21. Battery Waste22. Medical waste  23. Agricultural Waste and Pollution 24. Military waste25. Space waste26. Hazardous Wastes   27. Land Pollution 28. Thermal Pollution29. Landfills, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow 30. Pollution Management and Responsible Care31. Risk Assessment, Management and Accountability Epilogue Index