Environmental Materials and Waste: Circular Economy and Pollution Abatement, Second Edition contains the latest information on environmental sustainability as a wide variety of natural resources are increasingly being exploited. The book takes a multidisciplinary approach to fully realize the number of by-products which can be remanufactured, providing the foundation needed across disciplines to tackle this issue. This updated edition includes operational principles of circular economy for sustainable development with reference to environmental waste. Although circular systems are now being implemented, it also emphasizes the importance to properly consider and convert circular economy goals and principles into actions.
Circular economy research is discussed in-depth as it has gained considerable momentum in the scientific literature thus far, and both conceptual debates and the creation of useful implementation strategies are still in their infancy.
As a whole, this book covers a wide range of issues that must be covered in order to improve environmental sustainability.
1. Recycling biowaste for resources to reduce pollution 2. Resource recovery and pollution control for vinasse, a byproduct of the alcohol industry 3. Recovery of energy and new materials from gaseous pollutants 4. Recovery of energy and new materials Soil pollutants for 5. Biochar production from biowaste to protect the environment and for sustainable agriculture 6. Making biochar from organic wastes to reduce pollution on contaminated areas 7. Biosorbents from biowaste for the removal and recovery of metals 8. Oleaginous yeast and microalga for the synthesis of biodiesel from wastewater 9. Valorization of sludge for energy 10. Recovery of energy and new materials from gaseous pollutants 11. Recovery of energy and new materials Soil pollutants for 12. Utilization of ferrous and copper slags and other industrials solid wastes for sustainable development 13. Biosolids application for Mine site rehabilitation and revegitation 14. Utilization of ferrous and copper slags and other industrials solid wastes for sustainable development 15. Asbestos: Waste Management and Resource Recovery 16. The resource potential of waste gypsum, both natural and synthetic 17. Resource recovery from Red Mud 18. Red mud usefulness in glass-ceramics 19. Technologies for recovery of precious metals from waste 20. Extracellular electron transfer-based resource recovery from wastewater 21. Acid Mine Drainages: Hydrochemistry, Environmental Impact, Resource Recovery and Pollution Prevention 22. Pollution Reduction Drives Economic Recovery by Restoring Smelter Industrial Barrens 23. The structure, chemistry, and relevance of clay minerals in polluted settings and geological CO2 sequestration 24. Zeolite for nitrogen removal from farm effluents 25. Reusing bottom ashes 26. Crystallization of struvite and its analog (K-struvite), from waste streams for Recycling nutrients
Majeti Narasimha Vara Prasad is currently Emeritus Professor, School of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India. He has made outstanding contributions to the fields of bioremediation, bioresources, biomass energy sources, bioeconomy and to the broad field of environmental biotechnology, all of which are his main areas of expertise. Dr. Prasad has served the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change, Government of India in various advisory committees on biodiversity conservation, ecosystem services, pollution control and abatement, environmental information systems and bioremediation of contaminated sites. He is an active visiting scientist in several international universities.
