Waste generation is a global issue, with waste piles increasing at an alarming rate worldwide. The total amount of waste generated annually worldwide is predicted to reach 2.2 billion tons by 2025. Addressing this crucial issue, this new book, Waste Management: From Trash to Treasure, is a comprehensive guide to waste managementits types, characteristics, regulations, and management and reuse strategies.
The book first introduces waste, its history, types, characteristics, regulatory development, and legislation. It then discusses various ways to convert waste into useful materials, starting with waste from fruits and vegetables and agricultural wastes, and moving on to various other types of waste, such as plastics and electronics. The book discusses how food and agro-waste can be effective tools for the preparation of functional materials. Various mitigation strategies are discussed, such as the use of termites in waste management, employing microbial enzymes aid in bioremediation, and vermicomposting. Also explored is the use of artificial intelligence in waste management as a time and money saver. A chapter discusses bioplastics and biopolymersthe ideal versus the reality. Finally, the harmful health impacts of unscientific waste disposal are discussed, such as from indiscriminate dumping that leads to the emission of poisonous methane gas and that can lead to fires and extreme air pollution.
Compiled with contributions from experts in industry and academia, this volume is a comprehensive introduction and guide to waste management and will a valuable resource for students and researchers working in the area of waste management as well as industry professionals.
Details waste management, its types, characteristics, regulations, management, and reuse strategies. Discusses ways to convert waste into useful materials, like from fruits and vegetables and agricultural wastes, and various other types of waste, such as plastics and electronics. Explores use of artificial intelligence in waste management.
1. Introduction, Brief History, Waste Types, Characteristics, Regulatory
Development
2. Management of Fruit and Vegetable Waste for Potential
Bio-Commodities: Conventional Utilization and Emerging Opportunities
3.
Agricultural Waste: From Trash to Treasure
4. Food and Agro-Waste as an
Effective Tool for the Preparation of Functional Materials
5. Role of
Termites in Waste Management: Current Progress and Future Potential
6.
Electronic Garbage Management: Global Challenges for Developing Countries
7.
Classification of Waste Objects Through Computer Vision Techniques for
Efficient Waste Management
8. Artificial Intelligence as a Money and Time
Saver in Waste Management
9. Bioplastics and Biopolymers Dreams and Reality
10. Microbial Enzymes Aid in Bioremediation of Industrial Effluents Making
Environments Cleaner
11. Food Waste: Exploring Opportunities and Challenges
for Sustainable Management
12. Vermicomposting: A Way Toward Sustainable
Economy and Environment
13. Waste Reduction, Minimization, and Its Biological
Processing
14. Health Impacts of Unscientific Waste Disposal, Incineration,
Biological Recycling, and Processing
Rajesh Kumar, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Biosciences at Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla, India. With over 10 years of experience in teaching and research, Dr. Kumar has been teaching animal physiology and applied zoology to postgraduate students. His own research activities also include environmental toxicology, waste management, and the impact of environmental degradation on animal physiology. He is an expert lecturer at beekeeping training/extension activities. Dr. Kumar has completed major research projects and startup projects sponsored by government agencies and has published research articles, book chapters, abstracts, and conference papers as well as books and monographs. He has organized seminars and conferences and delivered invited talks and extension lectures. Dr. Kumar has earned 12 awards for his research in honeybees/physiology to date.
S. S. Kanwar, PhD, is Senior Professor of Biotechnology at Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla, India. Dr. Kanwar has published over 225 journal papers and book chapters during a career spanned over 30 years. He has filed six patents, all of which have been published, and one of these has been granted. Dr. Kanwar is a reviewer for over 50 international and national peer-reviewed journals. His research is focused on nanotechnology, medicinal chemistry, therapeutics, and biocatalysis, and he pursues his research activities by developing bioproducts and bioprocesses for a variety of extracellular microbial enzymes to assess the antitumor and anticancer activities of purified microbial enzymes. One of his current projects is on the improvement of activities of industrially important enzymes by protein engineering, rational design, and enzyme immobilization.
