Waste Management and Resource Efficiency

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxxviii

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2. Swachh Bharat Mission in India

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Swachh Bharat Mission—Implementation and Performance in Rural Areas of Select States

      • Sadhan Kumar Ghosh, Padma Kant Jha, Yogesh Kumar Singh

      Pages 3-13

   3. An Effective Mosquitoes–Insects Killing Machine (MIKM)

      • Sushant B. Wath

      Pages 15-21

   4. Fabrication of a Low-Cost Water Purifier Incorporating Agricultural Wastes for the Removal of Dyes and Heavy Metals

      • R. Prabhakar, Y. Bharath, S. N. Singh

      Pages 23-33

3. Solid Waste Management in Asia-Pacific, African and European Countries

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 35-35

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   2. Analysis of Composition and Associated Environmental Impacts of Sludge Generated from Dipped Products Manufacturing Industry in Sri Lanka

      • R. L. C. Livera, N. J. G. J. Bandara

      Pages 37-49

   3. Emission Characteristics of Gaseous Pollutants from Pilot-Scale SRF Gasification Process

      • S. W. Park, J. S. Lee, W. S. Yang, J. J. Kang, M. T. Alam, Y. C. Seo et al.

      Pages 51-58

   4. Using Sargassum sp. and Kitchen Waste as Substrates for Vermicast Production

      • Raymund N. Fantonalgo, Juliet F. Salubre

      Pages 59-69

   5. Study on the Effective Reuse of Eggshells as a Resource Recovery from Municipal Solid Waste

      • M. R. Sarder, N. A. Hafiz, M. Alamgir

      Pages 71-79

   6. Material Stream in the Recycling Process for Spent Compact Fluorescent Lamp (SCFL)

      • Seung-Whee Rhee, Hyeong-Jin Choi

      Pages 81-90

   7. Conceptual Framework for Municipal Solid Waste Processing and Disposal System in India

      • A. Aich, Sadhan Kumar Ghosh

      Pages 91-107

   8. Selection of Suitable Landfill Site for Municipal Solid Waste Disposal: A Fuzzy Logic Approach

      • S. Alam, K. A. Kolekar, T. Hazra, S. N. Chakrabarty

      Pages 109-129

   9. Biofuels from Indian Lignocellulosic Wastes Through Pyrolysis: A Review with Some Case Studies

      • Ranjana Chowdhury

      Pages 131-146

   10. Improvement of Solid Waste Management Code of Practice Development Through Effective Public Consultation

       • S. T. El Sheltawy, Nisreen Boghdady, M. M. K. Fouad

       Pages 147-157

   11. Characterization of Municipal Solid Wastes from Lagos Metropolis, Nigeria

       • O. M. Ojowuro, B. Olowe, A. S. Aremu

       Pages 159-166

   12. Waste to Energy: Developing Countries’ Perspective

       • Adeniyi Saheed Aremu, Habeeb Oladimeji Ganiyu

       Pages 167-176

   13. The Technological Level of Equipment of Participants in the ELV Recycling Process in Serbia and the Region

       • M. Pavlovic, S. Arsovski, M. Nikolic, D. Tadic, A. Tomovic

       Pages 177-186

4. Sustainability and Climate Change

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 187-187

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   2. The Influence of Municipal Solid Waste of Georgia on Climate Changes

      • Natela L. Dvalishvili, Mariam Sh. Tabatadze

      Pages 189-194

The book contains high-quality research papers presented at Sixth International Conference on Solid Waste Management held at Jadavpur University, Kolkata India during November 23-26, 2016. The Conference, IconSWM 2016, is organized by Centre for Quality Management System, Jadavpur University in association with premier institutes and societies of India. The researchers from more than 30 countries presented their work in Solid Waste Management. The book is divided into two volumes and deliberates on various issues related to innovation and implementation in sustainable waste management, segregation, collection, transportation of waste, treatment technology, policy and strategies, energy recovery, life cycle analysis, climate change, research and business opportunities.

• Conference Proceedings
• IconSWM 2016
• IconSWM Proceedings
• Waste Management
• Waste-to-enegy
• Solid Waste Management
• Sustainable Development
• Land Fill Management
• Waste Utilization and Minimization

• Department of Mechanical Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India

  Sadhan Kumar Ghosh

Dr. Sadhan Kumar Ghosh, Professor & Former Head of Mechanical Engineering Department and Founder coordinator of the Centre for QMS at Jadavpur University, Kolkata-700032, India, is a renowned personality in the field on Waste Management, Green Manufacturing & Green Factory and TQM. He served as the Director, CBWE, Ministry of Labour and Employment, Govt. of India and L&T Ltd. Prof Ghosh is the founder and Chairman of the IconSWM and the President of the International Society of Waste Management, Air and Water and the chairman of the “Indian Congress on Quality, Environment, Energy and Safety Management Systems (ICQESMS)”. He has been awarded the Distinguished Visiting Fellowship 2012 by the Royal Academy of Engineering, UK to work on 'Energy Recovery from Municipal Solid Waste'. He received the Boston Pledge and NABC 2006 award for the most eco-friendly innovation “Conversion of plastics & jute waste to wealth” in the ESP/50K Business Plan Competition at Houston, Texas, USA. He received Indian patent on “eco-friendly plastics recycling machine and the process there of” [Patent no.202532 dated 02/03/2007] and “Automatic High Speed Jute Ribboning Machine” in Bangladesh [Patent no. 1005146 dated 17/02/2014] innovated by him, patent in India is awaited.

Prof. Ghosh is the international expert of the, a) United Nations Centre for Regional Development under the UN in 3R Forum [Adelaide, 2016] and b) Asian Productivity Organization (APO), Japan and China Productivity Council (CPC) on Green manufacturing and Green Factory (Taiwan 2014, 2015, 2016) and c) Research Project for GP for the BoP business in APO member countries in Asian (May 2016- June 2017). His papers on waste management, namely on biowaste, e-wastes and MSW received Excellence Awards in many countries. His very recent international research project as India Leader are, a) Erasmus plus with UK and Thailand 2015-16, b) UKIERI 2011-13 Research Project on “Climate Change Issues and Environmental Performanceof Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) in India and the UK”, c) UKIERI 2012-14 Research Project on “Waste to Energy from Municipal Waste – design of DSS for planning and implementation”, d) UKIERI funding on “Developing Low Carbon SMEs through Lean and Green Manufacturing” for 2015-16 and, e) Royal Society - DST fund for "UK- India Seminar of Bio Energy" held in February 2015 with UK partners.

He has been serving as the member of international steering committees and editorial boards and served as the Keynote / Plenary speaker in many international conferences, namely in Australia, China, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Laos, Malaysisa, USA, UK, and India. He has initiated the movement for worldwide Sustainable Waste Management with partners in many countries through the “Task Force for International Cooperation on Waste Utilization” (TF4ICWU) and Consortium of Researchers in International Collaboration (CRIC). He was the convener of ISO TC 61 WG24, member in the Indianmirror committee of ISO TC 207 and chaired the ISO TC 61 WG2 meeting in several countries. He has been Principal Investigator of more than 24 research projects. He has been requested to act as the organizing Chair of 4th 3RINC, by Materials Cycles Society, Japan and the Chair Elect of 7^th IconSWM 2017. He wrote nine books, more than 24 edited volumes, more than 140 national and international publications and Book Chapters. He was the State Level Advisory Committee Member of Plastics Waste (Management & Handling) Rules 2011. He is available at: sadhankghosh9@gmail.com.

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