Solid Waste Management Challenges and Recent Solutions

1. Understanding Waste: Type, Characterization, and Environmental Impacts.
Asha Kumari Kumawat, Supriya Vaish and Bhawana Pathak

2. Wastes and Its Current Status: A Middle East Perspective.
Ghassan F. Al Samarrai, Rana.I. Khaleel, and Norli Ismail

3. Challenges and Opportunities in Waste: Indian Aspect
Chaitanya Narala and Bhagawan Dheravath

4. Waste Minimization, Management, and Resource Recovery: Livestock Waste
Ellin Harlia, Eulis Tanti Marlina, Yuli Astuti Hidayati, and Norli B. Ismail

5. Industrial, Construction, and Demolition Waste: Management and Resource Recovery
Nurhanim Abdul Aziz, Putri Anis Syahira Mohamad Jamil, Muhammad Hasnolhadi Samsudin, and Norli B. Ismail

6. Health Hazard and Waste Management.
Siti Norabiatulaiffa Mohd Yamen, Mohd Saiful Samsudin, and Muhammad Izzul Fahmi Mohd Rosli

7. Biological Hazardous Waste Management of Animal Husbandry and Food Processing Industry
Eulis Tanti Marlina, Yuli Astuti Hidayati, Ellin Harlia, and Norli B. Ismail

8. Ecological and Human Health Risk Assessments in Water and Soil Samples from Beris Lalang Waste Dumpsite, Kelantan, Malaysia.
Florence Rutselin Kelanit, Norli B. Ismail, Mohd Hafiidz Jaafar, Nurul Ilyana Sansudin, Hasmah Abdullah, and Widad Fadhullah

9. Wealth from Municipal Solid Waste.
Ramnarayan Singh and Neha Verma Gour

10. Plastic Waste and Its Management Strategies: Recent Advances
Aryadeep Roychoudhury, Shreyosi Pahari, Alen D. Rozario

11. Nanowastes and Its Management: New Waste Management Paradigm.
Ekta Tiwari, Nitin Khandelwal, and Nisha Singh

12. Algal Nanoparticles as a Green Approach for Bioremediation of Heavy Metals from Wastewater
Sujata, Anuj Sharma, Bansal Deepak, Rachna Bhateria, and Sharma Mona

13. From Crisis to Opportunity: Advancing Plastic Waste Management in the Age of Nanowaste and COVID-Related Waste
Muhammad Izzul Fahmi Mohd Rosli, Mohd Saiful Samsudin, and Siti Norabiatulaiffa Mohd Yamen

14. Pinus roxburhii Sarg: Needle Management to Combat Forest Fire: Status, Prospects, and Constraints
Prashant Sharma, Kamlesh Verma, Daulat Ram Bhardwaj, Manoj Kumar Singh, Dhirender Kumar, and Pankaj Thakur

15. Waste Management Practices of Riverside Communities at the Limbang River Sarawak, Malaysia.
Siti Noor Aliza Apandi and Norli Ismail

Biography

Rajeev Pratap Singh is currently working as Associate Professor in the Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. He also works in the area of waste management and has worked on various kinds of waste, such as fly ash, sewage sludge, tannery sludge, palm oil mill waste, and contained water irrigation. He has published many publications in reputed journals on waste management and similar topics. Dr Singh has received several international awards, like – ‘Green Talent’ award from Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Germany; Prosper.Net Scopus Young Scientist award, DST Young Scientist Award etc.

Ibha Suhani has completed her M.Sc. in Environmental Science from Banasthali Vidyapith, Rajasthan, India. She has completed her Masters in Philosophy in Environmental Science from Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development (IESD), Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. She is a Ph.D. research scholar currently working in the field of environmental science, ecotoxicology, solid waste management and sustainability at the Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development (IESD), Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. During her doctoral research she has worked on the current issue of salt affected lands by using amelioration techniques through utilizing compost and vermicompost. Currently she is working to check the threshold of earthworm for naturally sodic soil and organic amendments.

Norli Ismail holds a BSc (honour) in Environmental Science from Universiti Putra Malaysia and completed MSc in Chemical Processes and PhD in Environmental Technology at Universiti Sains Malaysia. Prof, Dr. Norli join the School of Industrial Technology as a lecturer attached to Environmental Technology Division, USM in October 2003.  At present she is a dean of the School of Industrial Technology (2019 – Dec. 2021). Prof. Dr. Norli has research experienced in various areas of environmental science and technology with emphasis on water quality, management issues, and treatability studies in relation to water, wastewater and analytical testing.

Vaibhav Srivastava is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, University of Allahabad, Prayagraj-211002, Uttar Pradesh, India. Previously, worked as Assistant Professor in the Department of Health, Safety and Environment, Sustainability Cluster, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies. Dr. Srivastava did his masters (M.Sc.) from the University of Allahabad, Prayagraj and Ph.D. from the Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India in Botany. During his doctoral research, he has put innovative ideas and tried to develop an economically cheaper and sustainable method of solid waste management and performed vermicomposting of municipal solid waste (MSW) as a circular economy-based management approach.