Advanced Organic Waste Management: Sustainable Practices and Approaches

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Subrata Hait (Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India) Chaudhery Mustansar Hussain (New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, USA)

Advanced Organic Waste Management

Sustainable Practices and Approaches

Subrata Hait (Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India), Chaudhery Mustansar Hussain (New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, USA)

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Elsevier - Health Sciences Division
24 January 2022

Waste management; Hazardous waste treatment & disposal; Sustainable agriculture

Advanced Organic Waste Management: Sustainable Practices and Approaches provides an integrated holistic approach to the challenges associated with organic waste management, particularly related to sustainability, lifecycle assessment, emerging regulations, and novel approaches for resource and energy recovery. In addition to traditional techniques, such as anaerobic digestion, composting, innovative and emerging techniques of waste recycling like hydrothermal carbonization and vermicomposting are included. The book combines the fundamentals and practices of sustainable organic waste management with successful case studies from developed and developing countries, highlighting practical applications and challenges.

Sections cover global organic waste generation, encompassing sources and types, composition and characteristics, focus on technical aspects related to various resource recovery techniques like composting and vermicomposting, cover various waste-to-energy technologies, illustrate various environmental management tools for organic waste, present innovative organic waste management practices and strategies complemented by detailed case studies, introduce the circular bioeconomy approach, and more.

Edited by: Subrata Hait (Associate Professor Indian Institute of Technology Patna India), Chaudhery Mustansar Hussain (New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, USA)
Imprint: Elsevier - Health Sciences Division
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 191mm,
Weight: 1.060kg
ISBN: 9780323857925
ISBN 10: 0323857922
Pages: 520
Publication Date: 24 January 2022
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Subrata Hait, Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India Subrata Hait, PhD is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Patna, Bihar, India. His current research interests include waste treatment and resource recovery, solid and hazardous waste management, composting and vermicomposting of organic waste, e-waste management. He has authored many papers at his credit in various international journals in addition to several book chapters. Apart from serving as a reviewer for different international journals published by the leading publishers including Elsevier, Dr. Hait is serving as an Academic Editor of PLOS One and an Editorial Board Member of SN Applied Sciences. Prof. Chaudhery Mustansar Hussain is an Adjunct Professor and Director of laboratories in the Department of Chemistry & Environmental Sciences at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Newark, New Jersey, United States. His research is focused on the applications of nanotechnology and advanced materials, environmental management, analytical chemistry, and other various industries. Dr. Hussain is the author of numerous papers in peer-reviewed journals as well as a prolific author and editor of around 150 books, including scientific monographs and handbooks in his research areas.