Little, Brown and Company, 2025. — 400 p. A globe-trotting work of relentless investigative reporting, this is the first major book to expose the catastrophic reality of the multi-billion-dollar global garbage trade. Dumps and landfills around the world are overflowing. Disputes about what to do with the millions of tons of garbage generated every day have given rise to waste...
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2019. — 297 p. — ISBN 9781538110331,1538110326. Americans are burying ourselves in our own waste. It's befouling our air, land, waters, food, and bodies. The US tosses out enough foodstuff to feed the rest of the world. America is the largest buyer of fashion and cosmetics, the second dirtiest industry in the world. We lead the planet in...
Random House, 2018. — 160 p. — ISBN: 9781473561649. Plastic is ruining our environment, and we can do something about it. Now. Martin Dorey, founder of the anti-plastic movement and #2minutebeachclean, is the expert when it comes to understanding the impact plastics have on our planet. This book shows you what you can do to help. Starting today, with just 2 minutes of your...
Simon & Schuster, 2023. — 745 р. — ISBN: 978-1-3985-0545-2 When we throw things ‘away’, what does that actually mean? Where does it go, and who deals with it when it gets there? In Wasteland, award-winning journalist Oliver Franklin-Wallis takes us on an eye-opening journey through the global waste industry. From the mountainous landfills of New Delhi to Britain’s overflowing...
New York: Penguin, 2021. — ISBN 9780143135678. Since the dawn of the recycling system, men and women the world over have stood by their bins, holding an everyday object, wondering, "can I recycle this?" This simple question reaches into our concern for the environment, the care we take to keep our homes and our communities clean, and how we interact with our local government....
Penguin Books Ltd, 2018. — ISBN 978-0-241-36322-5. How to Give Up Plastic is a straightforward guide to eliminating plastic from your life. Going room by room through your home and workplace, Greenpeace activist Will McCallum teaches you how to spot disposable plastic items and find plastic-free, sustainable alternatives to each one. From carrying a reusable straw, to catching...
Jayato Nayak, Sankha Chakrabortty, Suraj K. Tripathy, Maulin P. Shah (Editor). — CRC Press, 2025. — 435 p. — ISBN: 978‑1‑003‑41554‑1. Advanced Bioseparation of Industrial Wastes: Sustainable Recovery of High-Value Metal Ions examines resource recovery from a variety of industrial waste streams, including sludge and wastewater, with an emphasis on both the fundamentals and the...
IGI Global, 2020. — 611 p.— ISBN 9781799801986. As global waste generation increases at a rapid rate, there is a dire need for waste management practices such as collection, disposal, and recycling to protect from environmental pollution. However, developing countries generate two to three times more waste, resort to open dumps more often than developed countries, and are...
Page Street Publishing Co, 2017. — 194 p. — ISBN: 162414425X. After the birth of their son, Jay Sinha and Chantal Plamondon set out on a journey to eliminate plastic baby bottles as the Canadian government moved to ban BPA. When they found it was difficult to procure glass baby bottles, Jay and Chantal made it their mission to not only find glass and metal replacements for...
Trapeze, 2018. — 134 p. — ASIN B079X2S9VQ. Without big action, at the current rate, pieces of plastic will outnumber fish in the ocean by 2050. That is the legacy we are leaving our children and grandchildren. Plastic flows into our lives from every direction and most of it is not recycled. Instead it is incinerated or ends up in landfill, where it will sit for hundreds of years,...
Тюмень: Государственный аграрный университет Северного Зауралья, 2018. — 84 с. Учебно-методическое пособие предназначено для закрепления теоретических знаний и выполнения практических работ по разделам «Проектирование полигонов ТБО» и «Санация нефтезагрязненных земель». В данном пособии представлена методика расчета проектной вместимости полигона твердых бытовых отходов,...
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