Waste Management and Resource Recycling in the Developing World

Table of Contents

1. Waste generation in Brazil: municipal, agricultural and industrial wastes
2. Generation of Waste: Problem to Possible Solution in Developing and Underdeveloped Nations
3. Use of participatory methodologies to improve the Urban Solid Waste Management System in Cape Verde Sal Island
4. Waste Characterization in Brazil
5. E-Waste Management- Sources, Strategies, Impacts and Consequences
6. Translational Transport of E-Waste and implications on human well beings and the environment
7. Electronic (e-waste) Conduct: Chemical assessment and treatment methods
8. Biological methods for the treatment of e-waste
9. Chemical Methods for the treatment of e-waste
10. E-Waste Management Using Different Cost-Effective, Eco-friendly Biological Techniques: An Overview
11. Life cycle assessment of e-waste management: Current practices and future research agenda towards sustainability
12. E-waste: Policies and Legislations for a sustainable green growth
13. E-waste policies and implementation: a global perspective
14. The future of e-waste in the circular economy of Ghana: Implications for urban planning, environmental and human health risks
15. The role of the informal sector on e-waste management: a case study from Brazil
16. Recent Perspectives of Nanoparticles in Industrial Waste Management-an overview
17. Advances in industrial waste management
18. Nano- and microplastics in the environment: a potential threat to in-situ bioremediation of wastewaters
19. Biological Methods For The Treatment Of Industrial Waste
20. Adsorptive Removal Of Hazardous Dyes From Industrial Waste Using Activated Carbon: An Appraisal
21. Hazardous waste management lessons from developed countries
22. Hazardous biomedical waste management scenario of the developing countries
23. Chemical methods for the treatment of biomedical hazardous waste
24. Advances in Biomedical waste management technologies
25. Biological treatment of pharmaceutical wastes
26. Municipal solid waste management, its fate and waste-to-energy in the context of a developing economy like India
27. Applications of waste-to-economy practices in urban water sector: Implications for Environmentaland Human health
28. Cost-benefit analysis act as a tool for evaluation of waste to the economy: A synthesis
29. Conversion of waste materials into different by-products of economic value
30. Vermicomposting the sustainable Solid Waste Management
31. Sustainability Of Biorefineries For Waste Management
32. Municipal solid waste management in Brazil: overview and trade-offs between different treatment technologies
33. Waste management practices in a developing nation: Challenges and opportunities

Authors

Pardeep Singh Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Studies, PGDAV College, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India. Dr. Pardeep Singh is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Environmental Science, PGDAV College, University of Delhi, in New Delhi, India. He obtained his PhD at the Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University) Varanasi. Dr. Singh has published more than 65 papers in international journals in the fields of waste management, environmental pollution, and agricultural nanotechnology, and has co-edited 30 books. Pramit Verma Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. Pramit Verma is a Senior Research Fellow at Institute of Environment & Sustainable Development, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. His research interests are in the socioeconomic dynamics, urban energy flow, urban land use/land cover change, biostatistics and ecological modelling. He is currently working in the field of Urban Ecology. He has also worked in the field of urban climate disaster risk reduction and management. He has published several research articles in international journals. Rishikesh Singh Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. Dr. Rishikesh Singh has completed his PhD from Institute of Environment & Sustainable Development, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. His research interests are in soil carbon dynamics, land- use change and management, emerging agronomic practices, biochar and carbon sequestration. His current research assignment is based on environmental impact analysis of traditional and emergent agronomic practices in Indo-Gangetic Plains of India. He has published several research and review articles and is a reviewer of several international journals of Elsevier, Taylor and Francis and Springer Nature groups. Arif Ahamad Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Science, Daulatram College, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India. Dr. Arif Ahamad is presently working as an Assistant Professor (Department of Environmental Science, Daulatram College, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India). He has obtained his master's degree from the Department of Environmental Science, Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi, India in 2011. He obtained his M.Phil. degree in 2014 and doctorate degree in 2019 from the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. The area of his doctoral research is Potentially Toxic Elements (PTEs) in the Groundwater, Soil and Road dust from the Industrial area in Sonbhadra district, Uttar Pradesh, India. He has published more than 10 papers/Book chapters in international and national publishing house in the field of ground water and surface water contamination, wastewater effluent, and landfills as a source of contamination and human health risk assessment. Apart from these several papers are under review. He has also written some editorial articles in popular English newspapers. He presented his research works on several national and international platforms. Andr� C. S. Batalh�o Professor, Dr., CENSE - Center for Environmental and Sustainability Research, NOVA School of Science and Technology, NOVA University Lisbon Caparica, Portugal. He has been working as a researcher, professor, and consultant in Planning and Sustainability Management, specifically with Sustainability Indicators and other manageable metrics. External consultant in sustainability assessment at the European Environment Agency (EEA), Copenhagen, Denmark. Researcher at CENSE - Center for Environmental and Sustainability Research, NOVA School of Science & Technology, NOVA University Lisbon, Caparica, Portugal. Post-Doctorate in Organizational Administration at the Faculty of Economics, Administration and Accounting of Ribeir�o Preto (FEARP), University of S�o Paulo (USP), Brazil. Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences by Federal University of Goi�s (CIAMB/UFG), Brazil, and NOVA University Lisbon, Portugal. Member of the International Sustainable Development Research Society (ISDRS). Researcher at Public Strategy for Sustainable Development (PS4SD), Brussels, Belgium.