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Implement successful solid waste analysis and minimization strategies

Provide sustainable solutions to solid waste issues with help from this hands-on guide. Solid Waste Analysis and Minimization: A Systems Approach offers up-to-date technical details on current and potential solid waste minimization practices. This authoritative resource presents a framework for the proper application of solid waste analysis tools, and demonstrates the benefits in terms of environmental impact, process efficiencies, and financial enhancement. Twenty-one real-world case studies covering all industries, from manufacturing to service facilities, are included.

Solid Waste Analysis and Minimization: A Systems Approach covers:

• U.S. and international waste generation rates
  
• Industrial ecology, solid waste exchanges, and recycling
  
• Environmental, economic, corporate image, personal, and social benefits of solid waste management and minimization
  
• Solid waste assessment strategies and launch plans
  
• The Six Sigma systems approach for deployment
  
• Metrics and performance measurement for solid waste management
  
• Documentation and development of the deployment plan
  
• Implementation and execution of the solid waste minimization plan
  
• Communicating and leveraging success
  
• Solid waste modeling, research, and data collection
  
• Characterization by business activities
  
• Estimation, prediction, and evaluation