This book is the third volume in a three-volume set on Solid Waste Engineering and Management. It focuses on tourism industry waste, rubber tire recycling, electrical and electronic wastes, health-care waste, landfill leachate, bioreactor landfill, energy recovery, innovative composting, biodrying, and health and safety considerations pertaining to solid waste management. The volumes comprehensively discuss various contemporary issues associated with solid waste pollution management, impacts on theenvironmental and vulnerable human populations, and solutions to these problems.

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Lawrence K. Wang has served the society as a professor, inventor, chief engineer, chief editor and public servant (UN, USEPA, New York State) for more than 50 years, with experience in entire field of environmental science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). He is a licensed NY-MA-NJ-PA-OH Professional Engineer, a certified NY-MA-RI Laboratory Director, a licensed MA-NY Water Operator, and an OSHA Instructor. He has special passion, and expertise in developing various innovative technologies, educational programs, licensing courses, international projects, academic publications, and humanitarian organizations, all for his dream goal of promoting world peace. He is a retired Acting President/Professor of the Lenox Institute of Water Technology, USA, a Senior Advisor of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), Vienna, Austria, and a former professor/visiting professor of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Stevens Institute of Technology, University of Illinois, National Cheng-Kung University, Zhejiang University, and Tongji University. Dr. Wang is the author of more than 750 papers and more than 50 books, and is credited with 29 invention patents. He holds a BSCE degree from National Cheng- Kung University, Taiwan, ROC, a MSCE degree from the University of Missouri, a MS degree from the University of Rhode Island and a PhD degree from Rutgers University, USA. Currently he is the book series editor of CRC Press, Springer Nature Switzerland, Lenox Institute Press, World Scientific Singapore, and John Wiley. Dr. Wang has been a Delegate of the People to People International Foundation, a Diplomate of the American Academy of Environmental Engineers, a member of ASCE, AIChE, ASPE, WEF, AWWA, CIE and OCEESA, and a recipient of WEF Kenneth Research Award (NY), Five-Star Innovative Engineering Award (First DAF drinking water plant in North and South Americas) and Korean Pollution Control Association Award (DAF technology transfer to South Korea). MuHao Sung Wang has been an engineer of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, an editor of CRC Press, Springer Nature Switzerland, and Lenox Institute Press, and a university professor of the Stevens Institute of Technology, National ChengKung University, and the Lenox Institute of Water Technology. Totally she has been a government official, and an educator in the USA and Taiwan for over 50 years. Dr. Wang is a licensed Professional Engineer, and a Diplomate of the American Academy of Environmental Engineers (AAEE). Her publications have been in the areas of water quality, modeling, environmental sustainability, solid and hazardous waste management, NPDES, flotation technology, industrial waste treatment, and analytical methods. Dr. Wang is the author of over 50 publications and an inventor of 14 US and foreign patents. She holds a BSCE degree from National ChengKung University, Taiwan, ROC, a MS degree from the University of Rhode Island, RI, USA, and a PhD degree from Rutgers University, NJ, USA. She is the CoSeries Editor of the Handbook of Environmental Engineering series (Springer Nature Switzerland), Coeditor of the Advances in Industrial and Hazardous Wastes Treatment series (CRC Press of Taylor & Francis Group) and the Coeditor of the Environmental Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics series (Lenox Institute Press). She is a member of AWWA, NYWWA, NEWWA, WEF, NEWEA, CIE and OCEESA. YungTse Hung has been Professor of Civil Engineering at Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, since 1981. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers, a licensed Professional Engineer in Ohio and North Dakota, and a Diplomate of American Academy of Environmental Engineers. He has taught at 16 universities in 8 countries. His research interests and publications have been involved with biological treatment processes, solid wastes