Identifies and reviews current research on important topics in modern waste management. Legislation and its impact is included in the book which takes a European view of the subject.
European environment policy in the 1990s; material recovery from municipal solid wastes; green options for the disposal of sewage sludge and solid wastes; UASB reactors for industrial and domestic wastewater treatment; land-based pollution in the Mediterranean; advances in treatment processes for the incineration of sewage sludges; regional, hydrographic or national mass balances for N and P for environmental and water quality management.