Taking the reader through the history of industrial waste treatment and directing them toward a new path of best practice, Industrial Waste Treatment illustrates how current treatment techniques are affected by regulatory and economic constraints, scientific knowledge and tolerances. This book provides the reader with the basis for a more effective method of waste treatment which is sustainable and supportive of industrial improvements. Overall, it provides valuable information for planners, industrial, civil and environmental engineers and government officials for a better understanding of current practices and regulatory history and how these factors relate to the ability to complete environmental solutions to industrial waste problems.

• Provides environmental history from a professional/technical point-of-view as a basis for total solutions engineering
• Includes sustainable practice necessary for the 21st Century
• Thoroughly explores industry and environmental regulations over the past 150 years

• Front Cover 2
• Industrial Waste Treatment 5
• Copyright Page 6
• Contents 9
• Prologue 11
• List of Tables 13
• List of Figures 17
• Industrial Environmental History 23
• Introduction to Industrial Waste Treatment 31
• Part A: Twentieth Century 33
  • Chapter 1: Theories and Practices 35
    • Volume Reduction 35
    • Classification of Wastes 35
    • Conservation of Wastewater 36
    • Changing Production to Decrease Wastes 37