Table of Contents

A. INTRODUCTION 1. Introduction to Waste Management 2. A Systems Approach to Waste Management 3. Regulation of Wastes 4. Waste Collection 5. Waste and Biogeochemical Cycling

B. WASTE STREAMS (and their treatment) 6. Mine Waste: A Brief Overview of Origins, Quantities, and Methods of Storage 7. Coal Waste Streams 8. Effect of Waste on Ecosystems 9. Oil and Gas Exploration and Production Wastes 10. Metal Waste 11. Radioactive Waste Management 12. The Municipal Landfill 13. Wastewater 14. Recovered Paper 15. Glass Waste 16. End-of-life textiles 17. Chemicals in Waste: Household Hazardous Waste 18. Reusing Non-hazardous Industrial Waste Across Business Clusters 19. Current and emerging construction waste management status, trends and approaches 20. Thermal Waste 21.  Microplastics: emerging contaminants requiring multilevel management 22. Marine Plastic Pollution: other than micro-plastic  23. Plastic Waste: How Plastic has become Part of the Earth’s Geological Cycle 24. Air Pollution: Atmospheric Wastes 25. Waste: Electrical and Electronic Equipment 26. Tyre Recycling 27. Medical Waste 28.  Agricultural Waste and Pollution 29. Waste from Military Operations 30. Space waste 31.  Hazardous Waste 32. Land Pollution

C. BEST PRACTICE AND MANAGEMENT 33. Waste Governance 34. Waste Constituent Pathways 35. Waste Management Accountability: Risk, Reliability and Resilience 36. Evaluating the feasibility of Public Projects

About the Author

Professor Trevor Letcher is an Emeritus Professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, and living in the United Kingdom. He was previously Professor of Chemistry, and Head of Department, at the University of the Witwatersrand, Rhodes University, and Natal, in South Africa (1969-2004). He has published over 300 papers on areas such as chemical thermodynamic and waste from landfill in peer reviewed journals, and 100 papers in popular science and education journals. Prof. Letcher has edited and/or written 32 major books, of which 22 were published by Elsevier, on topics ranging from future energy, climate change, storing energy, waste, tyre waste and recycling, wind energy, solar energy, managing global warming, plastic waste, renewable energy, and environmental disasters. He has been awarded gold medals by the South African Institute of Chemistry and the South African Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics honoured him with a Festschrift in 2018. He is a life member of both the Royal Society of Chemistry (London) and the South African Institute of Chemistry. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics, and is a Director of the Board of the International Association of Chemical Thermodynamics since 2002. Professor Daniel A. Vallero is an internationally recognized author and expert in environmental science and engineering. He has devoted decades to conducting research, teaching, and mentoring future scientists and engineers. He is currently developing tools and models to predict potential exposures to chemicals in consumer products. He is a full adjunct professor of civil and environmental engineering at Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering. He has authored 20 environmental textbooks, with the most recent addressing the importance of physical principles in environmental science and engineering. His books have addressed all environmental compartments and media within the earth’s atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, and biosphere.