Innovative Technologies for Waste Management: Strategies, Challenges and Future Directions

This contributed volume offers background and cases that detail technologies and techniques for transforming garbage into valuable goods. The cases here examine developments and challenges in waste management technology and offer suggestions for sustainable ways forward. The book provides covers a wide variety of issues including waste management and classification, recycling and upcycling waste into carbon nanomaterials and value-added products, water treatment, e-waste, biomedical waste management, and the role of microorganisms and nanotechnology in waste treatment. This volume will serve as an invaluable resource for academics, students, and waste management professionals.