Medical, Municipal and Plastic Waste Management Handbook

Contents: 1. Characterization of medical waste. 2. Medical waste treatment effectiveness. 3. Medical waste handling methods. 4. Medical waste reuse, recycling and reduction. 5. Infectious waste characterization. 6. Infectious waste management. 7. Treatment of infectious waste. 8. Medical waste. 9. Hospital incineration systems. 10. Bio-medical waste. 11. Air pollution control. 12. Waste minimization options. 13. Vermiculturing. 14. Municipal waste water treatment and energy recovery. 15. Principles of municipal solid waste management. 16. Composition and quantity of solid waste. 17. Slaughter house waste and dead animals. 18. Industrial solid waste. 19. Emerging processing technologies. 20. Wastewater and its collection. 21. Principles of reactor design. 22. Principles of biological treatment. 23. Mechanically aerated lagoons. 24. Power generation based on distillery spentwash. 25. Production, use, and disposal of plastics and plastic products. 26. Impacts of post-consumer plastics waste on the management of municipal solid wastes. 27. The potential for divertable plastic waste. 28. Objectives and action items. 29. Recent legislative and regulatory actions.

"Waste management is one of the essential obligatory functions of the country. This service is falling too short of the desired level of efficiency and satisfaction resulting in problems of health, sanitation and environmental degradation.

This book provides overview of the status of medical, municipal and plastic waste management. Treatment techniques includes sterilization, incineration and number of recycling methods."