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Following the general increase of population and industrial development, the management of resources through use of secondary source of raw materials, recycling and energy recovery from waste products are growing in importance. There are many challenges associated with each approach in which waste treatment and handling its by-products are among the most environmentally concerned matters. This chapter is divided into two main parts for two types of waste management: municipal solid waste management, and wastewater management. In the first part, management of municipal solid waste, incineration as a tool for energy recovery and its hazardous by-products fly ash and bottom ash are introduced. It has shown that vitrification of these ashes could open lots of potential for their utilization in various products such as cement and clinker substitution, or preparation of foam glass–ceramics as construction materials. In this chapter, a guide to successfully vitrify fly ash is also introduced and discussed. The second part of this chapter is dedicated to wastewater management, focusing on the potential use of rice-husk, an agricultural by-product to be utilized as an adsorbent for removal of heavy metals from wastewater. The final heavy-metal containing rice husk introduces new environmental concerns prior to landfill, and we have shown that vitrification has the potential to safely encapsulate this material and even give the opportunity to prepare foam glass–ceramics after its vitrification.
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Sharifikolouei, E., Ferraris, M. (2021). Potential Role of Vitrification and Waste Vitrification in the Circular Economy. In: Baino, F., Tomalino, M., Tulyaganov, D. (eds) Ceramics, Glass and Glass-Ceramics. PoliTO Springer Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85776-9_10
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