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Fat of the Land: Garbage of New York -- The Last Two Hundred Years

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Author: Benjamin Miller

A city awash in garbage; rats skittering through heaps of rotting debris; disease spreading through choked waterways; citizens threading through piles of filth - urban nightmare or profiteer's dream come true? Benjamin Miller's panoramic view of New York's garbage takes us from the earliest antebellum collectors, to 19th- century barons trading in fertilizers and explosives, to the current feuding bureaucrats and environmentalists. Fat of the Land covers social and scientific theories of class and disease, in the process offering a richly textured history of urban development. The book reveals for the first time the plotting of power broker Robert Moses that gave birth to the controversial Fresh Kills landfill and examines the curious logic behind its untimely end. Fat of the Land brings to light an often hidden subject, assessing who gains and who loses in the endless battle over garbage.

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Radioactive Waste Management, Second Edition

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Author: James Saling

This book covers topics such as: an overview of sources of radioactive waste; an introduction to radioactive decay and radiation shielding calculations; management and disposal of spent nuclear fuel and high-level waste; low-level waste; transuranic waste; Uranium mill tailings; mixed waste; transportation of radioactive waste; decontamination and decommissioing of nuclear facilities; and environmental restoration. Technical and regulatory aspects of waste management are presented. Discussion questions at the end of each chapter provide an opportunity to explore the many facets of waste management issues. An extensive reference list at the end of each chapter retains the references from the first edition of the book and incorporates references used in preparing this revised text, giving the reader an opportunity to look at historical records as well as current information.

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Recovering Precious Metals

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Author: George E. Gee

Includes recovering gold from color waste, the copperas process, the zinc process, the old iron binding wire process, the complex process, recovering gold from electro gilding waste, the zinc acid process, gold from rinsing waters and wash waters, the hydrogen sulphide process, recovering gold from dip gilding waste, recovering gold from old stripping solutions, recovering gold from photography old toning solutions, useful hints and tables, gold precipitating reagents, recovering silver from silver plating solutions, the zinc acid process, the sulphide of sodium process, reducing silver sulphide to metal, recovering silver from electro silvering rinsing waters, reducing chloride of silver to metallic silver with metallic iron, recovering silver from dip silvering solutions and their rinsing waters, recovering silver from old stripping solutions, recovering silver from nitric acid solutions, washing precipitates, recovering silver from glass mirror makers' solutions, recovering silver from photography old hypo solutions, recovering silver from sundry salts of silver, silver precipitating reagents, recovering silver from mixed solutions, recovering platinum from platinum solutions, recovering platinum from electro platinating solutions, separating platinum from gold united by soldering in a manner that both metals can always be distinguished, separating platinum from gold, separating platinum from silver in dental alloy, separating platinum from copper, separating platinum from lemel without any gold in it, separating platinum from lemel containing both gold and silver, separating platinum from gold, silver, copper, nickel, and other metals, the assaying of platinum wares, platinum precipitating reagents, recovering gold, silver, and platinum from waste liquid residues of every description by one operation, the electrolytic method and melting sedimentary residues.

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Biohazard Technicians: Life on a Trauma Scene Cleanup Crew (Extreme Careers)

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Author: Stephanie Cooperman

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Hazardous Waste Handbook, Third Edition

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Author: John Lippitt

Hazardous Waste Handbook 3E offers a straightforward approach to protecting workers who clean up the nation's hazardous waste sites and chemical spills. Supervisors and site inspectors will find this handbook very useful in answering occupational health questions at the work site.

The manual covers such topics as site characterization, air monitoring, personal protective equipment, decontamination, and site emergencies. Numerous health and safety checklists, hazardous-chemical data sheets, and personal protective equipment recommendations are presented for field decisions. The goal of the book is to provide practical information on protecting workers while also containing the high cost of hazardous chemical waste cleanups.

Provides practical information on protecting workers and keeping cleanup costs down

Designed to allow supervisors and site inspectors to find information quickly

Offers numerous health and safety checklists, hazardous chemical data sheets, and recommendations on protective equipment

Hazardous Waste Remediation: Innovative Treatment Technologies

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Author: Harry Freeman

This book contains information of interest to those charged with selecting remediation processes for cleaning up hazardous waste from abandoned disposal sites. The individual chapters provide technology descriptions and a wealth of appropriate technical data for many specific technologies being proposed today or containing and treating wastes in, around, and under abandoned sites.

Backyard Composting: Your Complete Guide to Recycling Yard Clippings

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Author: Harmonious Technologies

Over 500,000 copies of this useful book have been sold in the first nine printings. This new second edition contains new graphics, the latest information on composting and household refuse, and descriptions of the most current tools available to help readers get started with their own composting program.

There have been many articles over the years about the benefits of composting for gardeners, but living in the city without a yard, this reviewer never really thought it was something that would apply to me with my handful of flower boxes and potted plants outside. Joke's on me! This book tells you everything you need to know about composting and household refuse, and most importantly, how to get STARTED, and will be enough to convince you to finally get organized and go for it.

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Hanford's Battle with Nuclear Waste Tank Sy-101: Bubbles, Toils, and Troubles

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Author: Chuck Stewart

Basic Environmental Technology: Water Supply, Waste Management and Pollution Control (4th Edition)

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Author: Jerry A. Nathanson

For introductory courses in Environmental Technology, Water Supply and Pollution Control, Environmental Quality Control, Environmental and Sanitary Design, Water and Wastewater Technology, and other undergraduate courses in the departments of Civil/Environmental Engineering. An easy-to-read, basic yet comprehensive text on a wide range of environmental subjects, this book focuses on fundamental concepts and practical applications, using only basic level (pre-calculus) mathematics where applicable, to help the student understand the interdisciplinary field of environmental technology. It provides an overview of the elements of public health, ecology, geology, and soils-with a focus on water and wastewater, solid and hazardous waste, and air and noise pollution control. Review material is included for those students with little or no background in the subjects of hydraulics, chemistry, biology, or geology, so that they can still comprehend and use this text.

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Standard Handbook of Hazardous Waste Treatment and Disposal

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Author: Harry Freeman

Completely updated and featuring 50% more information than its predecessor, the Second Edition provides you with the most comprehensive and current information now available on hazardous waste management, site cleanup, and treatment alternatives. More than 40 of the bookÕs chapters are revised while the other 30 chapters are new and offer you state-of-the-art insight into storage and transportation of hazardous wastes, health effects of hazardous waste, environmental assessment and audits, containment technologies, and many more critical areas. Also included is the latest word on federal hazardous waste legislation, waste minimization and pollution prevention techniques, and leading-edge treatment technologies.

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