This book provides readers with the most current knowledge on hazardous waste management practices. It addresses the rapidly changing advances in waste stream characterization and the discovery of new chemicals - which have led to new hazardous wastes, technological innovation, stringent environmental regulations, changes in transport and dispersion modelling of hazardous pollutants, and new waste management techniques. Hazardous Waste Management: Advances in Chemical and Industrial Waste Treatment and Technologies is an invaluable reference for waste management and treatment professionals, chemical engineers and technicians, medical professionals, and environmental regulators, as well as students taking courses on hazardous waste management, environmental engineering, and environmental science.

An Overview on Hazardous Waste Management

Common Hazardous Contaminants: Nomenclature, Industrial Uses, Properties and Classification
Environmental Chemistry and Fate of Hazardous Chemicals
Quantifying Hazardous Waste and Waste Characterization
Health Impact of Hazardous Wastes and Environmental Regulations
Hazardous Waste Transport in the Environment
Advances in Hazardous Waste Treatment Methods
Hazardous Waste Disposal
Waste Prevention, Waste Minimization and Recent Changes in Hazardous Waste Management Practice.-. Sustainability in Hazardous Waste Management
Industrial Case Studies
Future of Hazardous Waste Management Practices.