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Municipal Solid Waste Management

Strategies and Technologies for Sustainable Solutions

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Editors:
  1. Christian Ludwig

    1. Paul Scherrer Institut, 5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland

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  2. Stefanie Hellweg

    1. Safety and Environmental Technology Group, ETH Hoenggerberg, Zurich, Switzerland

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  3. Samuel Stucki

    1. Paul Scherrer Institut, 5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland

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  • Considers the "integrated view"
  • The focus on "Directing Material Fluxes" takes into account that waste management will no longer be limited to the end of pipe solutions but is part of the management of material fluxes

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Introduction

    • Samuel Stucki, Christian Ludwig
    Pages 1-14

  3. Waste Disposal: What are the Impacts?

    • Samuel Stucki, Jörg Wochele, Christian Ludwig, Helmut Brandl, Zhao Youcai
    Pages 15-43

  4. Recycling, Thermal Treatment and Recovery

    • Richard V. Anthony, Bernd Bilitewski, Michael Beckmann, Reinhard Scholz, Christian Ludwig, Jörg Wochele et al.
    Pages 44-127

  5. Biological and Bio-Mechanical Processes

    • Konrad Soyez, Sebastian Plickert, Konrad Schleiss, Saburo Matsui, Helmut Brandl
    Pages 128-163

  6. Advanced Thermal Treatment Processes

    • Kai Sipilä, Marcel A. J. van Berlo, Jörn Wandschneider, Michael Beckmann, Reinhard Scholz, Martin Horeni et al.
    Pages 164-349

  7. Ecology: Which Technologies Perform Best?

    • Stefanie Hellweg, Gabor Doka, Goeran Finnveden, Konrad Hungerbühler
    Pages 350-404

  8. Assessing and Improving Social Compatibility

    • Vicente Carabias, Herbert Winistörfer, Walter Joos, Christopher Rootes, Ortwin Renn, Elke Schneider et al.
    Pages 405-461

  9. Towards Sustainable Waste Management

    • Regula Winzeler, Peter Hofer, Leo Morf, Zhao Youcai
    Pages 462-513

  10. Concluding Remarks

    • Christian Ludwig, Samuel Stucki
    Pages 514-518

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 519-535
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Motivation The other day I was waiting at the station for my train. Next to me a young lady was nonchalantly leaning against the wall. Suddenly, she took a cigarette pack out of her handbag, pulled out the last cigarette, put it between her lips, crushed the empty pack, threw it on the ground and hedonistically lit the cigarette. I thought to myself, "What a behavior?!". The nearest trashcan was just five meters away. So I bent down, took the crushed pack and gave it back to her, saying that she had lost it. She looked at me in a rather deranged way, but she said nothing and of waste to the trashcan. brought the piece Often people are not aware of the waste they produce. They get rid of it and that's it. As soon as the charming lady dropped the cigarette pack, the problem was solved for her. The pack was on the ground and it suddenly no longer belonged to her. It is taken for granted that somebody else will do the cleaning up. There is a saying that nature does not produce waste. For long as humans obtained the goods they needed from the ground where they lived, the waste that was produced could be handled by nature. This has drastically changed due to urbanization and waste produced by human activities has become a severe burden.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Paul Scherrer Institut, 5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland

    Christian Ludwig, Samuel Stucki

  • Safety and Environmental Technology Group, ETH Hoenggerberg, Zurich, Switzerland

    Stefanie Hellweg

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