Solid Waste Pollution

Contents: Preface. 1. Solid waste pollution. 2. Solid waste materials. 3. Health hazards of solid-waste treatment. 4. Radioactive wastes. 5. Health aspects of sanitation workers. 6. Secondary hazards from solid wastes. 7. Danger points in solid-waste handling. 8. Availability of waste in India. 9. The costs of solid wastes. 10. Collection and transportation of solid waste. 11. Disposal of solid wastes. 12. Disposing of large waste products. 13. Resource and energy recovery from solid waste. 14. Incineration of refuse. 15. Solid waste management. Bibliography.

"This book is all about the solid waste pollution and its management. "Solid Waste" is the term now used internationally to describe non-liquid waste materials arising from domestic, trade, commercial, industrial, agriculture and mining activities, and from the public services. Solid-waste pollution has necessarily always been more advanced in the largest cities. Disposal problem become difficult with increase of population density." (jacket)