VALORIZATION OF RESOURCES FROM URBAN MINED MATERIALS

The manufacturing of recyclable products and an efficient recovery of resources such as chemicals, materials, and energy from waste streams are the key enablers of the circular economy. This book highlights the efficient management of waste into resources through the introduction of advanced technology able to convert waste into a secondary resource. It describes different technologies and urban mining tools used to recover materials from different types of waste. It also emphasizes that natural materials are limited though demand for the materials continues to increase, and how that demand can be sustainably fulfilled by secondary resources materials that come from urban mining.

Dr Dharmendra Kumar Gupta is Director(S)/Scientist-F at India's Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, New Delhi. His field of research includes abiotic stress by radionuclides/heavy metals and xenobiotics in plants; antioxidative system in plants, environmental pollution (radionuclides/heavy metals) remediation through plants and microbes (phytoremediation/Bioremediation). He has been awarded several international awards by entities such as the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), the Belgian Science Policy Office (BELSPO), JAE-Doc., Spain, TWAS-CNPq, Italy, Royal Society, UK, and MASAV, Israel. Dr Gupta has published more than 130 internationally peer-reviewed original research/review articles/book chapters and 26 books and served as Book Series Editor for 2 book series from Springer, Switzerland and 1 from World Scientific, Singapore. He has successfully completed 10 multidisciplinary research projects from international and national bodies.

Dr Pankaj Pathak is an Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental Science and Engineering at SRM University, AP, India. Her research domain includes valorization of resources from solid and hazardous waste, circular economy in metal recovery from e-waste and solar panels. Dr Pathak is keenly interested in acquiring sustainable secondary resources for a sustainable future. The outcome of her research works has been published in patents, peer-reviewed articles of high-impact international journals, and books.

Dr Dheeraj Mittal graduated from University of Delhi and was awarded a PhD in Plant Molecular Biology in 2013. He joined the Indian Forest Service in the year 2012 and worked as a Forest Officer in the State of Gujarat, India. He has worked in Gir National Park and Wildlife Sanctuary as a protected area manager. He joined the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, of the Government of India as Assistant Inspector General of Forest and is working for Project Lion and Elephant (PT&E) and Forest Conservation.