Recycling Strategy and Challenges Associated with Waste Management Towards Sustaining the World

Edited by Hosam M. Saleh and Amal I. Hassan

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Abstract: Recycling is an act of collecting and processing items that would otherwise be discarded as waste in order to create a new product. Recycled material is being used in an increasing number of today's products. Waste management is primarily concerned with a wide range of wastes, including industrial, biological, household, municipal, organic, biomedical, and radioactive wastes. Human activity, such as the mining and processing of basic resources, generates waste and poses health problems that can emerge both indirectly and directly. Waste mismanagement is a serious problem on an individual and a governmental level. Nowadays, the waste disposal business is struggling to adapt to globalized consumerism, a system in which things are manufactured on one continent, purchased and used on another, and disposed of on yet another. Therefore, remediation is often subject to a variety of legal criteria, but it can also be based on evaluations of human health and environmental concerns in cases where no statutory standards exist or when standards are advisory. This book discusses recycling strategies and technologies to find solutions to waste management. Chapters address such topics as biodegradable waste, the circular economy, managing industrial and nuclear waste, and much more.

JEL-codes: Q53 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
ISBN: 978-1-83768-011-5
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Alternatives for the Management of Industrial Forest Waste: Energy, Bioethanol, and Cellulose Pulp

Leonardo Clavijo, Mairan Guigou, Norberto Cassella, Gaston Cortizo, Florencia Risso, Lucia Velazco, Mario Daniel Ferrari, Claudia Lareo and Maria Noel Cabrera

Biodegradable Waste

Bukola Margaret Margaret Popoola

Circular Economy: An Antidote to Municipal Solid Waste Challenges in Zambia

Kachikoti Banda, Erastus M. Mwanaumo and Bupe Getrude Mwanza

Design for Recycling of E-Textiles: Current Issues of Recycling of Products Combining Electronics and Textiles and Implications for a Circular Design Approach

Elisabeth Eppinger, Alina Slomkowski, Tanita Behrendt, Sigrid Rotzler and Max Marwede

Nuclear Waste Hazard Reduction

Hiromichi Fumoto

Recycling Asphalt Pavements: The State of Practice

Hesham Ali and Aditia Rojali

Recycling Gap, Africa's Perspective for Sustainable Waste Management

Florence Akinyi Ogutu and Bessy Kathambi

Revolutionary Plastic Mechanical Recycling Process: Regeneration of Mechanical Properties and Lamellar Structures

Patchiya Phanthong and Shigeru Yao

Tesla's Circular Economy Strategy to Recycle, Reduce, Reuse, Repurpose and Recover Batteries

Michael Naor

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DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.104051

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