Organic Waste Recycling: Technology and Management - Tapa dura

This text is a guide to the principles and practice of organic waste recycling. It addresses low-cost waste recycling technologies utilizing microbial and natural processes. A wide range of topics are covered, starting with a discussion of the need for, and the problems involved in organic waste recycling. In the central core of the book a broad range of technologies used in the recycling of organic waste materials to produce valuable products such as fertilizer, biogas, algae, fish and irrigated crops are presented. Case studies of successful waste recycling programs are included and exercises to solve both theoretical and practical problems are given. This second edition has been completely revised and up-dated. It includes new sections on: waste minimization and clean technology, application of constructed wetlands and regulatory aspects of waste disposal and recycling.