This contributed volume offers background and cases that detail technologies and techniques for transforming garbage into valuable goods. The cases here examine developments and challenges in waste management technology and offer suggestions for sustainable ways forward. The book provides covers a wide variety of issues including waste management and classification, recycling and upcycling waste into carbon nanomaterials and value-added products, water treatment, e-waste, biomedical waste management, and the role of microorganisms and nanotechnology in waste treatment. This volume will serve as an invaluable resource for academics, students, and waste management professionals.

Offers a variety of cases dealing with waste management techniques Highlights reuse potential of materials recovered from waste Chapters come from contributors around the globe

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Managing Waste: Definitions, Categories, and Innovative Techniques.- E-Waste: An Overview of Sources, Properties, and Environmental Consequences.- From Contaminants to Cleanup: The Power of Microorganisms in Bioremediation.- Microorganisms' Significance in Bioremediation.- Harnessing Microbial Magic: Bioremediation for a Greener Future.- Waste Management and Classification: Repurposing Garbage to Create Nanoparticles.- The impact of Nanotechnology in Water Quality Control and Treatment of Wastewater.- Innovative Skills for Agricultural Waste Management: Strategies and Future Direction of cellulose-based polymers in Pharmaceutical Sciences.- Mechanistic approach and ecotoxicological aspects for use of nanomaterials in sustainable water remediation.- PROMOTING THE GLOBAL ECONOMIES BY SUSTAINABLE USE AND MANAGEMENT OF AGRICULTURAL WASTE.- Sustainable Environmental Waste Management Strategies.- Challenges and Opportunities of Solid waste management in vulnerable communities: Experiences from a resettlement colony in Delhi, India.- Agricultural Waste: A New Leap towards Encouraging Global Economy.- Waste: challenges, environmentally friendly handling, and conversion into goods of value.- Plastic Waste, Micro-plastic Pollutions, Impacts and Management.- Waste Management: Tackling Challenges, Sustainable Practices, and Transforming Waste into Value.- Vermicompost use in sustainable agriculture: Impact on soil fertility and plant growth.