Presenting effective, practicable strategies modeled from ultramodern technologies and framed by the critical insights of 78 field experts, this vastly expanded Second Edition offers 32 chapters of industry- and waste-specific analyses and treatment methods for industrial and hazardous waste materials-from explosive wastes to landfill leachate to wastes produced by the pharmaceutical and food industries.Key additional chapters cover means of monitoring waste on site, pollution prevention, and site remediation.Including a timely evaluation of the role of biotechnology in contemporary industrial waste management, the Handbook reveals sound approaches and sophisticated technologies for treatingtextile, rubber, and timber wastesdairy, meat, and seafood industry wastesbakery and soft drink wastespalm and olive oil wastespesticide and livestock wastespulp and paper wastesphosphate wastesdetergent wastesphotographic wastesrefinery and metal plating wastespower industry wastesThis state-of-the-art Second Edition is required reading for pollution control, environmental, chemical, civil, sanitary, and industrial engineers; environmental scientists; regulatory health officials; and upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in these disciplines.
