Plastic wastes : management, control, recycling, and disposal /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Corporativo: United States. Environmental Protection Agency
Otros autores o Colaboradores: Curlee, T. Randall, Das, Sujit
Formato: Libro
Lengua:inglés
Datos de publicación: Park Ridge, N.J., U.S.A. : Noyes Data Corp., c1991.
Series:Pollution technology review, ; no. 201
Temas:
Resumen:Wastes in the municipal solid waste stream: Introduction - Production, use and disposal of plastics and plastic products - Impacts of plastic debris on the marine environment - Impacts of post-consumer plastics waste on the management of municipal solid waste - Options to reduce the impacts of post-consumer plastics wastes - Objectives and action items - Appendices - Recycling in the industrial sector: Introduction - The energy content of plastic wastes - The cost of recycling versus disposal - An update of recent institutional changes that may promote recycling - Recent legislative and regulatory actions - The potential for divertable plastic waste - Plastic recycling from the current îndustry´s perspective - Conclusions - Appendix .
Descripción Física:xiv, 479 p. : il., mapas ; 24 cm.
ISBN:0815512651