Overview
Discusses how waste management practices can be used to achieve sustainability
Provides conceptual details on landfill mining and urban mining
Offers valuable reference material for future work in this field
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Table of contents (30 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
This book gathers selected high-quality research papers presented at the IconSWM 2018 conference, which explore various aspects of urban mining. In addition, they discuss how to achieve sustainable waste management systems, urban mining, landfill mining, material recovery, circular economy, etc., with the aid of effective waste management practices. Additional topics covered include maximum resource circulation and efficiency, key differences between landfill mining and urban mining, and how urban mining can be combined with the concepts of circular economy and sustainability.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Dr. Sadhan Kumar Ghosh is a Professor & Former Head of the Mechanical Engineering Department, as well as the Founder Coordinator of the Centre for QMS at Jadavpur University, India. A prominent figure in the fields of Waste Management, Circular Economy, SME Sustainability, Green Manufacturing, Green Factories and TQM, he has served as the Director, CBWE, Ministry of Labour and Employment, Government 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, as well as the Chairman of the Indian Congress on Quality, Environment, Energy and Safety Management Systems (ICQESMS). He was awarded a Distinguished Visiting Fellowship by the Royal Academy of Engineering, UK, to work on “Energy Recovery from Municipal Solid Waste” in 2012. 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 in Houston, Texas, USA. In addition, he holds patents on waste plastic processing technology and high-speed jute ribboning technology for preventing water wastage and occupational hazards.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Urban Mining and Sustainable Waste Management
Editors: Sadhan Kumar Ghosh
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0532-4
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-0531-7Published: 18 March 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-0534-8Published: 26 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-0532-4Published: 17 March 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 339
Number of Illustrations: 44 b/w illustrations, 129 illustrations in colour
Topics: Waste Management/Waste Technology, Sustainable Development, Urban Ecology, Natural Resources