Pollution waste management

California environmental law pesticides, chemicals, biotechnology chemicals, pesticides, ha2ardous wastes state international environmental issues chemistry, pesticides, environment environmental poHcy pollution, waste management U.S. environmental regulations... 

Wilson JL, Liu J (1994) Backward tracking to find the source of pollution. Waste Manag Risk Remediation 1 181-199... 

Journal of the Air and Waste Management Association (formerly Journal of the Air Pollution Control Association. Amonlhly ]owna of the Air Pollution Control Association that present articles on air pollution, waste management, and methods of abatement with research articles. 

Louis Theodore/ Sc D / Professor of Chemical Engineering, Manhattan College Member, Air and Waste Management Association. (Section Coeditor Pollution Prevention)... 

Table 25-8 provides a rough timetable demonstrating the United States approach to waste management. Note how waste management has begun to shift from pollution control-driven activities to pollution prevention activities. 

The application of waste-management practices in the United States has recently moved toward securing a new pollution prevention ethic. The performance of pollution prevention assessments and their subsequent implementation will encourage increased activity into methods that 1 further aid in the reduction of hazardous wastes. One of the most important and propitious consequences of the pollution-prevention movement will be the development of life-cycle design and standardized hfe-cycle cost-accounting procedures. These two consequences are briefly discussed in the two paragraphs that follow. Additional information is provided in a later subsection. 

As discussed in the introduction, the hierarchy set forth by the USEPA in the Pollution Prevention Act establishes an order to which waste-management activities should be employed to reduce the quantity of waste generated. The preferred method is source reduction, as indicated in Fig. 25-1. This approach actually precedes traditional waste management by addressing the source of the problem prior to its occurrence. 

Reduced wa.ste-treatment co.sts. As discussed in reason no. 5 of the dirty dozen, the increasing costs of traditional end-of-pipe waste-management practices are avoided or reduced through the implementation of pollution-prevention programs. 

Disposal The final func tional element in the sohd-waste-management system is disposal. Disposal is the ultimate fate of all solid wastes, whether they are wastes collected and transported direc tly to a landfQl site, semisolid wastes (sludge) from industrial treatment plants and air-pollution-control devices, incinerator residue, compost, or other substances from various solid-waste processing plants that are of no further use. 

Murley, L. (ed.), "Clean Air Around the World. National and International Approaches to Air Pollution Control." International Union of Air Pollution Prevention Associations, Air Waste Management Association, Pittsburgh, 1991. 

Tables 27-1 to 27-3 have concentrated on the personnel makeup of control agencies. For a broader look at places of employment. Table 27-4 shows where 8037 members of the Air Pollution Control Association (APCA) of the United States and Canada worked in 1982. (This list includes foreign as well as domestic members of APCA but does not include the membership of the air pollution control associations of other countries.) This table shows that only 10.7% of the members work in control agencies. This table gives a somewhat distorted picture because in many air pollution organizations only the senior executive, professional, and scientific personnel belong to APCA, whereas the total North American workforce in air pollution includes several times the 8037 membership total who are in junior, technical, service, or manual sectors and are not association members. These numbers could be still greater if those engaged in this work outside North America were included. The Air Pollution Control Association changed its name to the Air and Waste Management Association in 1988. The Air and Waste Management Association had a membership of over 14,000 in 1993, but only a portion of the members were active in the air pollution profession.

Bernstein, Janis D. Alternative Approaches to Pollution Control and Waste Management Regulatory and Economic Instruments. Washington The World Bank, 1993. 

Guide to Accessing Pollution Prevention Information Electronically. Boston U.S. Environmental Protection Agency — Northeast Waste Management Official s Association, 1997. 

AWMA, 1992. Air Waste Management Association, Air Pollution Engineering Manual. Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, NY, 1992. 

The volume represents the initial fulfillment of a series, and is aimed at assisting process engineers, plant managers, environmental consultants, water treatment plant operators, and students. Subsequent volumes are intended to cover air pollution controls, and solid waste management and minimization. 

Allen, D. T. and Rosselot, K. S. (1994). Pollution prevention at the macro scale Flows of wastes, industnal ecology and life cycle analyses. Waste Manage, 14(3-4), 317-328. 

Snyder, W. H., and R. E. Lawson. 1994. Wind tunnel measurements of flow fields m the vicinity of buildings. In Sth Joint Conference on Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology.. Anien-can Meteorological. Society and the Air and Waste Management Association. 

Buonicore, A. J. and W. T. Davis. Air Pollution Engineering Manual. Air c Waste Management As.sociation. New York Van Nostrand Reinhold (1992). 

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