Handbook of Solid Waste Management: A Practical Guide to Collection, Recycling, Landfills, Waste-to-Energy & Circular Economy for Engineers, Students & Cities (Updated Practical Handbooks) - Softcover

Newman, Sienna

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798175902434

Publisher: Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

Solid waste management works best when engineers understand the entire material flow—not isolated technologies.…

Does the existing reference material feel outdated for today's technologies, e-waste, EPR, and digital tools?
Are worked calculations and practical decision frameworks difficult to find in one affordable technical reference?
Do conventional U.S./OECD examples fail to reflect constrained infrastructure, informal recovery, and emerging-city conditions?

Written for engineers, environmental consultants, students, municipal professionals, and city authorities, Handbook of Solid Waste Management connects foundational engineering principles with practical system implementation. Its systems-based approach follows waste from characterization and generation through collection, transfer, MRF operations, biological treatment, landfills, thermal treatment, special waste, e-waste, circular economy, EPR, digital tools, and integrated planning.

Readers can learn to:

• Characterize waste streams
• Calculate generation rates
• Plan collection capacity
• Size waste-collection fleets
• Improve routing with GIS/GPS
• Evaluate transfer stations
• Understand MRF process flows
• Measure recycling performance
• Assess composting and anaerobic digestion
• Plan landfill airspace
• Understand leachate and landfill gas
• Evaluate WTE feasibility
• Manage hazardous and e-waste streams
• Apply EPR and circular-economy thinking
• Use digital analytics and smart-waste tools

A technical handbook should not merely repackage familiar concepts. This book is structured around worked calculations, decision frameworks, checklists, performance indicators, troubleshooting logic, and practical examples—features specifically identified as valuable to practitioners and certification-focused readers.

It also recognizes that cities do not all operate with the same infrastructure, budgets, markets, or service conditions. Rather than assuming a single universal solution, the handbook addresses resource constraints, phased implementation, informal-sector participation, Global South and emerging-city realities, and practical engineering tradeoffs.

If you want a practical foundation for modern solid waste management, then make this handbook a working reference.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798175902434
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 302