Municipal Solid Agricultural and Mining Waste in Sub Saharan Africa

<p>The book seeks to cover the application of the principles of the circular economy within the context of the processing and waste management industry in Sub-Saharan Africa. It includes topics related to the circular economy in relation to the sustainable use of resources in the mining, process industry and waste management sectors and looks at how some of the resources from these sectors which are currently treated as “waste” can be converted into secondary resources that can help drive economic development.</p><p>Features:</p><ul><li>Describes fundamental environmental and process engineering principles to understand waste valorisation technologies.</li><li>Cover sustainable solid waste management and recovery of resources from solid waste from an African perspective.</li><li>Provides guidelines for specific approaches for long terms and sustainable waste management.</li><li>Includes alternative waste treatment technologies in order of priority as per the waste hierarchy.</li><li>Introduces pertinent industry-specific case studies, worked examples and problems.</li></ul><p>This book is aimed at researchers and graduate students in environmental and chemical engineering and waste treatment.</p>