The Consumer's Handbook for Reducing Solid Waste

The Consumer's Handbook for Reducing Solid Waste
Author: Fifteenth Anniversary Task Force
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Total Pages: 37
Release: 1993
Genre:
ISBN: 1568062265

Describes how people can help solve a growing problem -- garbage. Outlines many practical steps to reduce the amount & toxicity of garbage. Includes success stories, reusable vocabularyÓ, & other resources. Illustrated.

Decision-Maker's Guide to Solid-Waste Management

Decision-Maker's Guide to Solid-Waste Management
Author: Philip R. O'Leary
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Total Pages: 372
Release: 1999-02
Genre:
ISBN: 0788176048

This Guide has been developed particularly for solid waste management practitioners, such as local government officials, facility owners and operators, consultants, and regulatory agency specialists. Contains technical and economic information to help these practitioners meet the daily challenges of planning, managing, and operating municipal solid waste (MSW) programs and facilities. The Guide's primary goals are to encourage reduction of waste at the source and to foster implementation of integrated solid waste management systems that are cost-effective and protect human health and the environment. Illustrated.

Handbook of Environmental Health, Two Volume Set

Handbook of Environmental Health, Two Volume Set
Author: Herman Koren
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 1560
Release: 2019-06-24
Genre: Science
ISBN: 143983296X

The two-volume Handbook of Environmental Health, Fourth Edition provides a comprehensive but concise discussion of important environmental health areas, including energy, ecology and people, environmental epidemiology, risk assessment and risk management, environmental law, air quality management, food protection, insect control, rodent control, pe

Environmental Engineers' Handbook on CD-ROM

Environmental Engineers' Handbook on CD-ROM
Author: David H.F. Liu
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 1420
Release: 1999-02-26
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0849321573

This CRCnetBASE version of the best-selling Environmental Engineers' Handbook contains all of the revised, expanded, and updated information of the second edition and more. The fully searchable CD-ROM offers virtually instant access to all of the interrelated factors and principles affecting our environment as well as how the government and the industry must deal with it. It addresses the ongoing global transition in cleaning up the remains of abandoned technology, the prevention of pollution created by existing technology. The Environmental Engineers' Handbook on CD-ROM provides daily problem solving tools and information on state-of-the-art technologies for the future. The technology and specific equipment used in environmental control and clean-up is included for those professionals in need of detailed technical information. Because analytical results are an essential part of any environmental study, analytical methods used in environmental analysis are presented as well. Data is clearly presented in tables and schematic diagrams that illustrate the technology and techniques used in different areas. Béla G. Lipták speaks on Post-Oil Energy Technology on the AT&T Tech Channel.

Environmental Engineers' Handbook, Second Edition

Environmental Engineers' Handbook, Second Edition
Author: David H.F. Liu
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 1564
Release: 1997-08-29
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9781584888598

Protecting the global environment is a single-minded goal for all of us. Environmental engineers take this goal to task, meeting the needs of society with technical innovations. Revised, expanded, and fully updated to meet the needs of today's engineer working in industry or the public sector, the Environmental Engineers' Handbook, Second Edition is a single source of current information. It covers in depth the interrelated factors and principles that affect our environment and how we have dealt with them in the past, are dealing with them today, and how we will deal with them in the future. This stellar reference addresses the ongoing global transition in cleaning up the remains of abandoned technology, the prevention of pollution created by existing technology, and the design of future zero emission technology. Béla G. Lipták speaks on Post-Oil Energy Technology on the AT&T Tech Channel.