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Solid Waste Processing and Resource Recovery

Part of the book series: Handbook of Environmental Engineering ((HEE,volume 2))

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Solid waste management has through the years consisted of collection and disposal. Technological advances have for the most part been in collection equipment design, incinerator efficiency, and landfill operation. In short, the objective has been to “pick it up and put it down,” at the lowest possible cost.

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  1. Department of Civil Engineering, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA

    P. Aarne Vesilind

  2. Monsanto Company, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

    Norman C. Pereira

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey, USA

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  2. Monsanto Company, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

    Norman C. Pereira

  3. Charleston, Tennessee, USA

    Norman C. Pereira

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Vesilind, P.A., Pereira, N.C. (1980). Materials and Energy Recovery. In: Wang, L.K., Pereira, N.C. (eds) Solid Waste Processing and Resource Recovery. Handbook of Environmental Engineering, vol 2. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5992-3_6

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