Organic Waste Recycling (eBook)

A significant challenge confronting engineers and scientists in developing countries is the search for appropriate solutions to the collection, treatment, and disposal or reuse of domestic waste. Technologies of waste collection and treatment that have been taught to civil engineering students and practiced by professional engineers for decades are, respectively, the water-borne sewerage and conventional waste treatment systems such as activated sludge and trickling filter processes. However, the above systems do not appear to be applicable or effective in solving the sanitation and water pollution problems in developing countries. Supporting evidence for the above statement is the result of a World Health Organization report (WHO 2000) which showed that in the year 2000 some 1.1 billion people (about 18% of the world population) did not have access to improved water supply, and 2.4 billions (about 40% of the world population) were without access to any sort of improved sanitation facility. For both the water supply and sanitation services, the vast majority of those without access are in Asia (as shown in Table

Language ‏ : ‎ English
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