Beneficiation and Management of Technological Waste: Opportunities and Challenges

This book focuses on the present and future trends, technologies, as well as regulations for the reduction, reuse, and recycling of technological waste globally from the perspective of environmental, social, and economic elements of the different connected systems. It also analyses specific technological waste producing materials and product streams in depth and investigates the future of technological waste and its management considering better end-of-life cycle designs, legislation, and sustainability perspectives. Key Features: • Provides comprehensive review of beneficiation and management of technological waste. Discusses sustainability in waste management and beneficiation. • Covers current practices, policies, and solutions governing the existing supply of discarded or waste technological products and by-products. • Reviews material-centric waste disposal and beneficiation. • Includes case studies from industry on technological waste generation and handling. This book is aimed at graduate students and researchers in materials science and engineering, extractive metallurgy, chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, chemistry, and sustainable and environmental engineering.