Chemistry of Waste Minimization

Political pressure has translated into legislation requiring industry to reduce waste. This has resulted in a major investment in new ways of tackling long standing chemical problems. It is widely recognized that high environmental standards can be a lifeline to profitability in the increasingly competitive markets of the future, and it has been estimated that expenditure on new capital equipment, environmentally friendly products, processes and services will run into hundreds of billions of pounds before the end of the century. There is an unprecedented opportunity for chemists to develop and apply new methods that result in waste reduction, and this book describes examples of new chemical methods used to reduce waste at source and to treat toxic waste. This book is written for research, development and production chemists, senior managers in the fine chemical and chemical intermediate manufacturing industry, and for regulatory authorities. Academic and research chemists with an interest in industrial processes and chemical technology should find this book an important reference source.