Fundamentals of waste and Environmental Engineering

All life forms generate waste. Among them, living beings are the biggest contributors to waste generation. Nature has a limit to which it can treat waste material. When wastes are generated beyond the handling capacity of the nature, it leads to environmental pollution. Atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases (GHGs) increases with increase in pollutants’ concentration. GHGs are the primary agents of climate change which can have disastrous effects including global warming, change in rainfall pattern, increased glacial melting, sea-level rise, and change in climate extremes. In recent years, e-waste has emerged as a global threat as it contains hazardous heavy metals. All these call for abatement efforts for all forms of pollution by proper disposal of wastes generated.

Fundamentals of Waste and Environmental Engineering deals with the global problem of waste generation. The book also discusses how principles of environmental engineering can be utilized to treat hazardous pollutants to eliminate their ill effects on the environment and how wastes can be transformed into value-added products. In order to make contents applicable, a dedicated chapter on waste generation and mitigation is provided which covers theoretical, numerical, and multiple-choice questions.