Solid Wastes Management begins with a focus on processing municipal and similar commercial, as well as industrial wastes; assessing and minimising the environmental impacts of processing and disposal. The second section reviews the treatment technologies available (physical, biological and thermal), their advantages, disadvantages and environmental performance. The third section considers the environmental and health impacts of the technologies and reviews the use of models to predict landfill leachate, gas formation and pollution dispersion. The fourth section is on the human health impact of waste management and draws on the previous sections, bringing in pollutants such as bioaerosols and ultra-fine particulate material. In the fifth and sixth sections, the importance of adopting an integrated approach to waste management is demonstrated through consideration of life cycle assessment and its use to determine optimum waste management solutions.Discover our e-book series on Environmental Monitoring and Protection, published in partnership with The Open University!Find out more about the series editors, the titles in the series and their focus on water, noise, air and waste, and The Open University courses in Environmental Management.Visit wiley.com/go/ouebookseries

Section 1: Wastes basics1.1 Introduction1.2 What is waste?1.3 Waste categories1.4 Waste quantities and composition1.5 Household wastes1.6 Waste policy and regulation1.7 Waste reduction and reuse1.8 SummarySection 2: Waste management technologies2.1 Introduction2.2 Landfill2.3 Waste incineration2.4 Advanced thermal processing techniques2.5 Anaerobic digestion2.6 Composting2.7 Materials recycling2.8 Mechanical-biological treatment2.9 SummarySection 3: Waste management process and environmental impactmodelling3.1 Introduction3.2 Leachate formation within a landfill3.3 Other landfill processes3.4 Incineration emissions3.5 Life-cycle assessment3.6 SummarySection 4: Health impacts of waste management4.1 Introduction4.2 Emissions and impacts4.3 Critical reading of the literature4.4 Assessing the health impacts of waste management4.5 Health and safety issues associated with wastecollection4.6 Health impacts of landfill4.7 Health impacts of incineration4.8 Health impacts of recycling and biological processing4.9 SummarySection 5: Integrated solid waste management and wastestrategies5.1 Introduction5.2 Integrated solid waste management5.3 Planning a waste strategy5.4 SummarySection 6: The end of waste and the cycle beginsagainGlossaryReferencesAcknowledgements