Overview
- Highlights the concept and assessment methods of various environmental footprints of recycled waste
- Discusses an interesting case study on Ecological Footprint of E-waste recycling
- Contributions from both industry and academia on an important environmental topic
Part of the book series: Environmental Footprints and Eco-design of Products and Processes (EFEPP)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
About this book
This book with its six interesting chapters highlights the environmental assessment of recycled waste. Waste Management is one of the main topics of concern for an organization and a nation. Out of different destinations at the end of life for a product, Recycling is the need of the hour and is an inevitable destination. Literally all wastes (be it- postindustrial or post-consumer states) if they cannot be reused, have to be recycled. Recycled products are in demand today and we are seeing many recycled alternatives for almost all industrial sectors. One of the million-dollar question to answer in terms of recycling and recycled products is- whether the recycled products are environmentally sustainable than the virgin alternatives? It is highly imperative to ascertain the environmental footprints of recycled products and recycling processes and also find out the best possible ways to further improve the environmental benefits of such recycled products and recycling processes.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Dr. Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu currently works Green Story as Chief Sustainability Officer, Canada, and is based out of Hong Kong. He earned his PhD from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and is a renowned expert in the areas of Environmental Sustainability in Textiles & Clothing Supply Chain, Product Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Product Carbon Footprint Assessment (PCF) in various industrial sectors. He has five years of industrial experience in textile manufacturing, research and development and textile testing and over a decade's of experience in life cycle assessment (LCA), carbon and ecological footprints assessment of various consumer products. He has published more than 100 research publications, written numerous book chapters and authored/edited over 100 books in the areas of Carbon Footprint, Recycling, Environmental Assessment and Environmental Sustainability.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Environmental Assessment of Recycled Waste
Editors: Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu
Series Title: Environmental Footprints and Eco-design of Products and Processes
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-8323-8
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-19-8322-1Published: 03 January 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-19-8325-2Published: 04 January 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-981-19-8323-8Published: 01 January 2023
Series ISSN: 2345-7651
Series E-ISSN: 2345-766X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 101
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 33 illustrations in colour
Topics: Waste Management/Waste Technology, Environmental Management, Sustainable Development