Pollution Prevention: Sustainability, Industrial Ecology, and Green Engineering, Second Edition

by Ryan Dupont, Kumar Ganesan, Louis Theodore

This new edition has been revised throughout, and adds several sections, lean manufacturing and design for the environment, low impact development and green infrastructure, green science and engineering, and sustainability. It presents strategies to reduce waste from the source of materials development through to recycling, and examines the basic concepts of the physical, chemical, and biological properties of different pollutants. It includes case studies from several industries, such as pharmaceuticals, pesticides, metals, electronics, petrochemicals, refineries, and more. It also addresses the economic considerations for each pollution prevention approach.

632 pages, Hardcover

Published November 8, 2016