During the past few years the worlds has reverberated of names like Seveso, Love Canal, Lekkerkerk, Times Beach, just to name the most publicized ones. All these names are connected with hazardous or toxic waste, waste from business and industry, especially the chemical industry. The list is endless because there are, all over the world, many thousands of "points noirs": not yet discovered or identified old lagoons and landfills, polluted rivers, estuaries, and harbors needing remedial action, which undoubtedly will reveal more unpleasant secrets of the chemical industry's past. It is not an exaggerated statement that chemists of the past have paid too much attention to the composition of new products while neglecting the disposition of byproducts, i.e., chemical waste. Admittedly, during the last decade this attitude has changed dramatically. Although we cannot yet properly speak of a new science of peri ontology (the theory of residues), we seem to be headed towards substantiated rules, analyses, disposal protocols, definitions and remedial practices in handling the problems of chemical waste. Especially during the last two years comprehensive treatises of the whole complex subject as well as monographs dealing with assorted aspects of waste tech nology have appeared.
Editors and Affiliations
BASF Aktiengesellschaft DUR/E - K 210, Ludwigshafen, Germany
Karl Robert Müller
Harwell, Environmental Safety Group Bldg., England
J. Bromley
Albright & Wilson Ltd. 1 Knightsbridge Green, London, England
J. T. Farquhar
Gidley Laboratories, Inc., Fairhaven, USA
P. T. Gidley
Solid and Hazardous Waste Res. Div., US Environmental Protection Agency Municipal Environmental Research Laboratory, Cincinnati, USA
S. James,
N. Schomaker
Forschungsstelle für chemische Toxikologie, Akademie der Wissenschaften der DDR, Leipzig Permoserstraße 15, Germany
D. Martinetz
Le Plessis-Trevise, France
A. Robin
Department of Health Services, Hazardous Material Laboratory Section, Berkeley, USA
R. D. Stephens
Chemical Health and Safety Program Resources Branch, TRTP National Institutes of HealthP., Research Triangle Park, USA
D. B. Walters
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Chemical Waste
Book Subtitle: Handling and Treatment
Editors: Karl Robert Müller, J. Bromley, J. T. Farquhar, P. T. Gidley, S. James, D. Martinetz, A. Robin, N. Schomaker, R. D. Stephens, … D. B. Walters
