Hazardous Waste Management Volume I

Environmental engineers are primarily responsible for restoring hazardous waste sites to a condition where they will not cause adverse effect to human health and the environment and for creating a waste-handling architecture that prevents future industrial wastes from causing any damage. This book presents a roadmap for hazardous waste management. Beginning with the legal framework that defines what a hazardous waste is and when a waste becomes hazardous a practicing engineer needs to have a general idea of environmental audits toxicology site characterization treatment processes and site-monitoring protocol. In addition the toxic compounds of concern may partition into the soil groundwater and air. Thus any attempt to deal with such a situation requires integration of law science technology and social policy. This book guides the reader with the help of numerous solved examples with a clear goal of showing how these topics are integrated in practice.