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Integrated Treatment Technology of Rural Domestic Sewage
This open access book provides integrated treatment technology of rural domestic sewage, and highlights ten typical cases in China. The integrated sewage treatment system (ISTE) combine sewage pretreatment, biological treatment, sedimentation, and disinfection, which particularly suitable for decentralized domestic wastewater treatment in rural areas without pipe networks. The main advantages o…
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- 978-981-99-5905-1
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- XIII, 140
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Reassembling rubbish :worlding electronic waste
An examination of the global trade and traffic in discarded electronics that reframes the question of the "right" thing to do with e-waste. The prevailing storyline about the problem of electronic waste frames e-waste as generated by consumers in developed countries and dumped on people and places in developing countries. In Reassembling Rubbish , Josh Lepawsky offers a different view. In an in…
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- 9780262346375
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- 1 online resource (240 pages)
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Deep time reckoning :how future thinking can help earth now
"How Finland's nuclear waste experts discern far future Earths, and what the rest of us non-Finns and non-experts can learn from them"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262359368
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- 1 online resource.
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Uncertainty Underground: Yucca Mountain and the Nation's High-Level Nuclear W…
Despite approval by Congress and the Bush administration and over seven billion dollars already spent, the Yucca Mountain, Nevada, site for disposal of highly radioactive spent nuclear fuel is not yet in operation. The reasons for the delay lie not only in citizen and activist opposition to the project but also in the numerous scientific and technical issues that remain unresolved. Although man…
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- 9780262278782
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- 1 online resource (xxiii, 431 pages) :illustrations, maps
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Recycling Reconsidered: The Present Failure and Future Promise of Environment…
How the success and popularity of recycling has diverted attention from the steep environmental costs of manufacturing the goods we consume and discard.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262298551
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- 1 online resource (xii, 303 pages).
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Waste Trading among Rich Nations: Building a New Theory of Environmental Regu…
When most people think of hazardous waste trading, they think of egregious dumping by U.S. and European firms on poor countries in Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean. But over 80 percent of the waste trade takes place between industrialized nations and is legal by domestic and international standards. In Waste Trading among Rich Nations, Kate O'Neill asks why some industrialized nations v…
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- 9780262280891
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- 1 online resource (xix, 298 pages).
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Histories of the Dustheap: Waste, Material Cultures, Social Justice
This volume provides an examination of how garbage reveals the relationships between the global and the local, the economic and the ecological, and the historical and the contemporary.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262305693
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- 1 online resource (vi, 291 pages) :map.
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Meaningful stuff :design that lasts
"In a world suffocated by people and things, this book exposes why we throwaway things that still work, and shows how we can design products, services, and experiences that last"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262363785
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- 1 online resource.
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Recycling class :the contradictions of inclusion in urban sustainability
"An ethnographic and community-engaged study of the contradictions of cross-class environmental mobilizations around Bengaluru's discards"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262376976
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