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The Global Menace of Hazardous Waste: Challenges and Management

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Concerns with respect to public health around the globe in countries due to hazardous waste arising from the development and industrialization are paramount. Hazardous waste weakens the quality of air, soil, and water. Tonnes of hazardous waste are discharged as residue from different anthropological activities in different countries. Hazardous waste such as pesticides and other persistent organic pollutants, biomedical waste, wood preservatives, used motor oil, leather tanning, mercury devices, plastics, photo processing chemicals, batteries, electric lamps, radioactive, heavy metals, organic solvents, industry waste, petroleum, and paint are dangerous substances which serve as a potential threat to human health and the environment due to their quantity, concentration, physical, chemical, reactive, toxic, flammable, poisonous, carcinogenic, and infectious peculiarities. Ailments and health challenges such as hypertension, nausea, vomiting, low birth rate, neurological disorders, respiratory infections like pneumonia, tuberculosis, diphtheria, bronchitis, and whooping cough and several diseases which are the leading cause of deaths are often at times associated with hazardous wastes. Grave consequences in the environment arise due to the collection of poisonous chemicals in soil, water, and air, all emanating from hazardous waste. These go a long way to cause problems in the atmosphere such as the greenhouse effect, global warming and climate change. The chapter aims to highlight the definition, classification of various types of hazardous waste, characteristics of hazardous waste, effect of hazardous waste on the environment and public health, hazardous waste management, structural systems employed in the collection, storage and transportation of hazardous waste as well as hazardous waste treatment and disposal.

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    Musa Neksumi & Banerjee Sushmita

  2. Department of Science Laboratory Technology, Adamawa State Polytechnic, Yola, Nigeria

    Musa Neksumi

  3. Department of Agricultural Sciences, Sharda University, Noida, India

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Neksumi, M., Zishan, M., Sushmita, B., Manzoor, U. (2022). The Global Menace of Hazardous Waste: Challenges and Management. In: Baskar, C., Ramakrishna, S., Baskar, S., Sharma, R., Chinnappan, A., Sehrawat, R. (eds) Handbook of Solid Waste Management. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-4230-2_112

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