Municipal Waste Disposal In The 1990s

This practical guide provides answers to questions about all facets of municipal waste treatment and disposal. Discover the latest standards, practices, and technology for handling landfills, hazardous waste disposal, sewage sludge, incineration, pollution-control equipment, HRIs, recycling, and more. Municipal solid waste (MSW) disposal has been a growing concern for decades. In the 1990s, the problems have multiplied and reached critical mass for many communities. This book examines various methods of treatment and disposal as "process control" examples on a societal scale. Technical enough for the municipal engineer who must make the solutions work, this book also provides the information needed by municipal leaders to evaluate MSW disposal options, and to select solutions that work today and won't harm future generations. Béla G. Lipták speaks on Post-Oil Energy Technology on the AT&T Tech Channel.

Please note this is a Short Discount publication. This market research Report provides essential information for all people involved in planning for waste disposal & recycling in the 1990's, including: ★ Local authorities ★ Waste Collection Equipment suppliers ★ Consumers of recycled materials ★ Engineering professionals ★ Financial institutions considering this business ★ Manufacturers of paper, glass & aluminium It presents market data and analysis for solid waste focusing on household/consumer waste, and provides information on the following key areas: ★ The market for recycled waste by volume & value ★ Demographic Data for West Europe ★ Waste generation by type ★ Separation & Recovery at source ★ Quantity of non–hazardous solid waste generated each year until 1996 ★ Where it will be generated Plus addressing current topical areas including: ★ Current and forthcoming legislation ★ Organisation of waste collection ★ Central Waste Sorting ★ Disposal Methods eg. Separation, Composting, Landfill, Incineration ★ Recovery and recycling of specific materials including: Paper; Glass; Separated Fuel; Aluminium Cans; Plastic; Batteries; Other scrapped metals ★ Acceptability of recycled materials ★ Incentive schemes

The affluence of western society has given rise to unprecedented quantities of waste, presenting one of the most intractable environmental problems for contemporary society. This book examines recycling and municipal waste management in three major cities: London, New York and Hamburg. A range of political and economic issues are examined to illustrate how any reduction in the size of the waste stream in order to achieve more equitable and environmentally sustainable patterns of resource use is incompatible with the current emphasis in the use of the market for environmental protection. The case studies show how, contrary to the hopes of many environmentalists and policy makers, municipal waste management is moving steadily towards the profitable option of incineration with energy recovery, rather than the recycling of materials or waste reduction at source. The evidence suggests that the achievement of a more sustainable pattern of recycling and waste management policy would demand a fundamental change in public policy, to give government a more active role in environmental protection.

Nicolas Buclet and Olivier Godard In terms of economic scale, waste management is one of the two most important environmentally oriented sectors. 1 It stands at the cross-roads in the material organization of society, resource management, changing lifestyles and consumption patterns, and ecological issues. For many years waste management has been perceived as aresources and health issue, confined mainly to dense urban areas, and not an environmental issue. In contemporary affiuent societies, however, the scale reached by waste flows, the inheritance of accumulated deposits in soils from the waste of previous generations and increasing levels of public concern about environmental proteetion and quality of life have all conspired to impose a fresh look at what waste really implies for a modern society. We are obliged to focus our attention on such questions as how the circulation of matter is at present organized by society and can be modified and controlled if economic development is to become more environmentally sustainable. This is the period we live in. Significant changes in waste management in European countries have been introduced during the last decade or so. To some extent the transition between traditional regimes mainly based on local disposal and new regimes based on a revised organisation of flows of waste matter is still in the making, involving new attitudes, new activities, new technologies and new incentives, reducing the pressure on virgin natural resources and eliminating the huge dissipation of various pollutants into the environment.

This review of the United Kingdom's environmental conditions and policies evaluates progress in reducing the pollution burden, improving natural resource management, integrating environmental and economic policies, and strengthening international co-operation.