Advanced Organic Waste Management: Sustainable Practices and Approaches

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, life cycle 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, vermicomposting are included. Tfe 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. Organized into seven distinct sections, Advanced Organic Waste Management first presents introductory information on global organic waste generation encompassing sources and types, composition and characteristics, and environmental and health hazards arising out of the improper management and unscientific disposal of waste. Part two focuses on technical aspects related to various resource recovery techniques like composting and vermicomposting; part three covers various waste-to-energy technologies; part four illustrates various environmental management tools for organic waste; part five presents innovative organic waste management practices and strategies complemented by detailed case studies; part six introduces the circular bioeconomy approach, which will also be accompanied by case studies; and part seven concludes the book with a discussion of the sustainability issues associated with environmental management of organic waste.