Wastes, industrial management

Industrial waste is an important source of energy and material hence, many industries are engaged in extensive environmental audits and evaluate their own waste management activities. There are large economic as well as environmental benefits when appropriate waste management is implemented. The existing system within industry requires an energy-optimisation alternative for the plastics waste 

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Environmental managers, engineers, and scientists who have had experience with process industry waste management problems have noted the need for a book that is comprehensive in its scope, directly applicable to daily waste management problems of the industry, and widely acceptable by practicing environmental professionals and educators. 

The U.S. EPA has already established a hazardous waste management hierarchy [20,21]. This hierarchy represents an attempt to build environmental protection into the industrial waste management process. It encourages industries to reduce their hazardous wastes at the source and to recycle rather than treat and/or dispose of wastes to land, air and water. This hierarchy of hazardous waste management is presented in Fig. 2. The following is a summary. 

About 70% of the current CH4 sources are anthropogenic, with roughly equal contributions from fossil fuel-related industries, waste management systems, and enteric fermentation associated with raising livestock (Table 5). Of the natural sources, wetlands are 70% of the total and therefore a major research focus. About 60% of natural wetland sources and most rice paddies occur in the tropical latitudes. Another 35% are in northern latitudes, and 10% are in mid-latitudes. The combined contribution of natural and managed wetlands to global CH4 emissions is —32% at present, and perhaps 70% of all sources before the industrial revolution (Lelieveld et al., 1998). Estuaries are <9% of ocean CH4 sources (Middelburg et al., 2002). 

Membrane Applications in Industrial Waste Management (Including Nuclear), Environmental Engineering, and Euture Trends in Membrane Science... 

Deals with membrane applications in industrial waste management and environmental engineering... 

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