Integrated Waste Management

This book addresses multiple focus areas identified and provides solutions with respect to the circular economy, water pollution, potable water availability, reducing population impact on the environment, and better health by integrated waste management.

Autorentext

Ali Mohd Yatoo (Ph.D.) pursued his M.Sc. (Environmental Science) from H.N.B. Garhwal (Central) University Uttarakhand and completed his Ph.D. (Environmental Science) from the University of Kashmir, India. He has more than 5 years of research experience and wide experience in waste valorization, waste and wastewater management, eco-toxicology, bioremediation, vermicomposting, composting, plant pathology, and organic farming.

Pankaj Kumar Gupta is a Ramanujan fellow, upholding one of the honored scientific positions at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Delhi, India. As a Ramanujan fellow, he has undertaken an exceptional project "Engineered Microbiome (E-Biome Project)", a unique combination of microbiology, hydrogeology, and chemical sciences for restoration of polluted sites, funded by the SERB, Govt. of India. He is also an adjunct assistant professor at the University of Waterloo, Canada.

Rajeev Pratap Singh, works in an area of waste management and has worked on various kinds of waste i.e. fly ash, sewage sludge, tannery sludge, palm oil mill waste, contained water irrigation etc. He has many publications in reputed journals on waste management and similar topics. Dr Rajeev Pratap Singh has received several international awards, like - 'Green Talent' award from Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Germany; Prosper.Net Scopus Young Scientist award, DST Young Scientist Award etc.

Inhalt

1. Microplastic Pollution: Sources, Effects, Monitoring and Management

2. Use of Genetic Engineering in Reclamation of Waste Disposal Sites

3. Role of Algae in Bioremediation of Waste Disposal Sites

4. Heavy metals, powerful environmental poisons, from waste disposal site: Its environmental effects and remediation

5. Biosurfactants and their potential in remediation of waste disposal sites

6. Eco-friendly and innovative techniques for managing organic pollutants

7. Bioassessment and Bioremediation of Heavy metals and pesticides from wastewater using efficient microbes: An insight into the mechanism and factors involved

8. Urban and Industrial Liquid waste: Sources, Eco-toxicological effects and Sustainable Management

9. Role of ornamental plants in clean-up of waste disposal sites

10. Low cost and economical alternatives for remediation of industrial waste

11. Waste management in past, present, and future

12. Groundwater Vulnerability Mapping using Drastic Model in GIS Environment of Imphal East District, Manipur, India

13. Constructed wetlands as a nature-based solution for wastewater management: A sustainable approach

14. Urban mining of e-waste: Inception of secondary resources of valuable metals

15. Removal of methylene blue on an industrial solid waste using a novel air agitated tapered bubble column adsorber