Sustainable Solid Waste Collection and Management

• Main Authors: Pires, Ana (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Martinho, Graça (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Rodrigues, Susana (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Gomes, Maria Isabel (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Waste management.; Sustainable development.; Industrial management-Environmental aspects.; Waste Management/Waste Technology.; Sustainable Development.; Sustainability Management.

This volume focuses on the collection of waste and waste streams as an integral aspect of sustainable waste management. The authors take economic models and behavioral studies into account to go beyond just descriptions of waste collections technologies and collection route design. Models and tools...

Table of Contents:

• I. Fundamental background. 1. Introduction
• 2.Prevention, reduction, reuse: waste hierarchy steps before waste collection
• 3. Waste collection: Technology status of waste collection systems
• 4. Preparation for recycling, recycling, treatment and landfilling: waste hierarchy steps after waste collection
• 5. Regulation and policy concerns
• 6. Social perspectives
• 7. Economic perspectives
• 8. Environmental concerns
• II. Models and tools for waste collection. 9. Design and planning of waste collection system
• 10. Operation and monitoring
• 11. Assessment and improvement
• III. Sustainable solid waste collection: integrated perspective. 12. Integrated waste collection
• 13. Tools to reach sustainable waste management by waste collection
• IV. Challenges and perspectives for sustainable waste management through waste collection. 14. The evolution of waste collection
• 15. Trend analysis
• 16. Technical barriers and socioeconomic challenges
• 17. Future perspectives. .