Chapter 5: Solid and Hazardous Waste and Recycling

Bales of compressed aluminum cans perhaps 1.5x1.5 m in cross section. We can't see the whole bale to determine length. They seem to be in a rather dirty shed.
Compressed aluminum cans prepared for recycling in a remote village of DakLak province, Vietnam. Shansov.net at Wikimedia Commons. CC 0.

Learning Outcomes

After studying this chapter, you should be able to:

  • Be familiar with the major forms of waste
  • Understand how waste is produced and managed and regulated
  • Understand how waste affects the environment
  • Know how brownfields are created, managed, and remediated
  • Be familiar with recycling processes and the opportunities and benefits of recycling

Chapter Outline

  • 5.1 Kinds of solid and hazardous waste
  • 5.2 Waste production, impacts, and management
  • 5.3 Brownfields
  • 5.4 Recycling
  • 5.5 Regulation of waste disposal and recycling
  • 5.6 Case study – uncontrolled hazardous waste from artisanal gold mining

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