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With growing public pressure and increasingly stringent environmental legislation, the waste industry is now being called upon to develop more sustainable methods of dealing with refuse. Coupled with moves to reduce reliance on landfill as a disposal route, biological treatment will increasingly become adopted as a standard requirement for the vast majority of putrescible wastes.
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Foreword * Preface (by the Rt Hon Michael Meacher) * Author's Acknowledgements * Introduction to Biowaste * The Management of Wastes * The Regulatory Framework * Biological Waste Treatment * Composting * Anaerobic Digestion (AD) * Alternative Biotechnologies * Thermal Recycling - Energy from Biowaste * The Way Ahead * Policy and Planning * Contacts * Index
Biography
As well as teaching an Environmental Biotechnology course at the University of Durham, Gareth Evans founded ZygoTec to research, develop and implement technologies for the utilization of biomass and biowaste. He was also the first British representative appointed to the ISWA Working Group on Biological Waste.
