Advanced Organic Waste Management: Sustainable Practices and Approaches provides an integrated holistic approach to the challenges associated with organic waste management, particularly related to sustainability, lifecycle assessment, emerging regulations, and novel approaches for resource and energy recovery. In addition to traditional techniques, such as anaerobic digestion, composting, innovative and emerging techniques of waste recycling like hydrothermal carbonization and vermicomposting are included. The book combines the fundamentals and practices of sustainable organic waste management with successful case studies from developed and developing countries, highlighting practical applications and challenges.
Sections cover global organic waste generation, encompassing sources and types, composition and characteristics, focus on technical aspects related to various resource recovery techniques like composting and vermicomposting, cover various waste-to-energy technologies, illustrate various environmental management tools for organic waste, present innovative organic waste management practices and strategies complemented by detailed case studies, introduce the circular bioeconomy approach, and more.
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Table of Contents
PART 1: Organic Waste: Generation, Composition, and Health Hazards
1. Worldwide Organic Waste Generation
Developing and Developed Countries
2. Composition and Characteristics of Organic Waste
Domestic, Industrial, and Natural Sources
3. Environmental and Health Hazards
PART 2: Resource Recovery from Organic Waste
4. Composting and Vermicomposting
5. Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Composting and Vermicomposting for Urban Households
6. Novel Techniques
Contained Composting System and Rotary Drum Composting System
7. Case Studies
PART 3: Energy Recovery from Organic Waste
8. Advances in Anaerobic Digestion for Biogas Production
9. Household Biomethanizer
10. Hydrothermal Carbonization
11. Compost-Heated Greenhouse for Carbon Harvesting
12. Case Studies
PART 4: Environmental Management Tools for Organic Waste
13. Emerging Regulations and Legislation
14. Life Cycle Assessment
15. Sustainable Social Livelihoods through Organic Waste Management
16. Financial Sustainability of Organic Waste Management
An Economic Analysis
17. Case Studies
PART 5: Innovative Management Practices for Organic Waste
18. Zero Waste and Zero Landfill Paradigm
19. Smart Waste Management Practices and Solutions in Smart Cities
20. Composting Management Open-source Software and Instrumentation
21. Case Studies
PART 6: Circular Bioeconomy in Organic Waste Management
22. Circular Bioeconomy
A Conceptual Framework
23. Integrated Waste Management for Multiproduct Biorefineries in Circular Economy
24. Innovation for Waste Valorization in Bioeconomy
Prospects and Challenges
25. Policy and Governance Implications
26. Case Studies
PART 7: Transition towards Sustainability
27. Resilient Waste Management System in Emergencies like COVID-19 Pandemic
Future Implications for Sustainability
28. Conclusions
Authors
Subrata Hait Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India. Subrata Hait, Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Patna, IndiaSubrata Hait, PhD is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Patna, Bihar, India. His current research interests include waste treatment and resource recovery, solid and hazardous waste management, composting and vermicomposting of organic waste, e-waste management. He has authored many papers at his credit in various international journals in addition to several book chapters. Apart from serving as a reviewer for different international journals published by the leading publishers including Elsevier, Dr. Hait is serving as an Academic Editor of PLOS One and an Editorial Board Member of SN Applied Sciences. Chaudhery Mustansar Hussain Adjunct Professor and Director of Laboratories, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), USA. Chaudhery Mustansar Hussain, PhD, is an Adjunct Professor and the Director of laboratories in the Department of Chemistry & Environmental Sciences at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Newark, New Jersey, United States. His research is focused on sustainability, applications of nanotechnology and advanced materials, environmental management, analytical chemistry, and other various industries. He is the author of numerous papers in peer-reviewed journals as well as a prolific author
and editor of around 200 books, including scientific monographs and handbooks in his research areas. He has published with ELSEVIER, American Chemical Society, Royal Society of Chemistry, John Wiley & Sons, CRC Press, and Springer.
