TY  - BOOK
AU  - van Ewijk,Stijn
AU  - Stegemann,Julia
ED  - Open Textbook Library
TI  - An Introduction to Waste Management and Circular Economy
T2  - Open textbook library
SN  - 9781800084650
AV  - TA145 
CY  - Minneapolis, MN
PB  - Open Textbook Library
KW  - Engineering and Technology
KW  - Textbooks
N1  - Abbreviations -- SI units and prefixes -- List of boxes -- List of exercises -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Materials and waste -- The impacts of waste -- Assessment methods -- Policy and legislation -- Waste prevention -- Collection and treatment -- Waste recycling -- Energy recovery and disposal -- The circular economy -- Further reading -- References -- Index
N2  - This introductory textbook provides an essential interdisciplinary guide to waste management and circular economy. It helps students to understand the drivers of waste, the environmental, social, and economic impacts of waste generation, and best practices and technologies for waste management, recycling, energy recovery and disposal. With helpful, full-colour diagrams throughout, each chapter includes learning objectives, introduction to concepts and themes, exercises and review sections, to guide students through the book. The textbook is ideal for teaching environmental engineering and science, as well as interdisciplinary environmental programmes
UR  - https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/1554
ER  -