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Table of Contents. – Ch. 1 Integrated solid waste management - - Solid waste in History - - Materials flow - - Special wastes - - -Final thoughts. – Ch. 2 Municipal Solid waste characteristics and quantities - - Municipal solid waste generation - - Municipal solid waste characteristics. – Ch. 3 Collection Refuse collection systems - - Commercial wastes - - Transfer stations - - Collection of recyclable materials - - Litter and street cleanliness - - Design of collection systems - - Potential solutions to the problem of littering. – Ch. 4 Mechanical processes - - Refuse physical characteristics - - Storing MSW - - Conveying - - Compacting - - Shredding - - Pulping - - Roll crushing - - Granulating. – Ch. 5 Separation processes - - General expressions for materials separation - - Picking (Hand Sorting) - - Screens - - Float/sink separators - - Magnets and electromechanical separators - - Other devices for materials separation - - Materials separation systems. – Ch. 6 Biological processes - - Methane generation by Anaerobic digestion - - Composting. – Ch. 7 Thermal processes - - Heart value of refuse - - Materials and thermal balances - - Combustion hardware used for MSW - - Undesirable effects of combustion. – Ch. 8 Planning, siting, and permitting of landfills - - Landfill processes - - Landfill design - - Landfill operations - - Post-closure care and use of old landfills - - Landfill mining. – Ch. 9 Toward integrated resources management environmental, political, and economic issues - - life cycle analysis and management - - flow control - - Public or private ownership and operation - - Contracting for solid waste services - - Financing solid waste facilities - - Hazardous materials - - Environmental Justice - - The Role of the solid waste engineer - - The phantom solid waste problems - - Bulk densities of refuse components - - Composition and analysis of waste, raw material and fuels.