Management of Waste Using
Nanotechnology
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Surbhi Vyas, Nikita Dhiman, Sushma Negi, and Rajeev Kumar
Abstract
Substantial growth in population leads to rapid urbanization, industrialization,
economic growth, and improvements in the living standards. On the account of
which world is facing lots of environmental challenges, but the major environmental challenge is the waste generation which is associated with the waste
collection, transport, treatment, and disposal. This leads to cause a decline in
the health of the humans and animals along with the whole ecosystem. Therefore,
it has become imperative for us to focus on the proper management of waste.
Waste management involves proper segregation and the scientific recycling of
all the components of the waste and this is the only ideal way to manage the
waste. As there are many methods included in the waste management such as
landfills, incineration/combustion, recovery and recycling, plasma gasification,
composting, waste to energy (recover energy), avoidance/waste minimization,
despite of so many technologies implied for waste management, nanotechnology
proved to be one of the best technology in management of waste because of its
unique characteristics like high surface area to volume ratio, freedom to control
and manipulate the material or synthesizing less toxic substances, time efficient,
labor efficient. All these properties can be used for removal of different type of
toxic material from the waste. In addition to that various other classes of
nanomaterials zeolites, metal containing nanoparticles, dendrimers, quantum
dots, etc. can also be proved efficient than any other process.
S. Vyas · N. Dhiman · R. Kumar (*)
Department of Environment Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
e-mail: rajeev@pu.ac.in
S. Negi
School of Basic and Applied Science, Maharaja Agrasen University, Baddi, India
# Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
R. Kumar et al. (eds.), New Frontiers of Nanomaterials in Environmental Science,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-9239-3_12
253
Nanotechnology
12
Surbhi Vyas, Nikita Dhiman, Sushma Negi, and Rajeev Kumar
Abstract
Substantial growth in population leads to rapid urbanization, industrialization,
economic growth, and improvements in the living standards. On the account of
which world is facing lots of environmental challenges, but the major environmental challenge is the waste generation which is associated with the waste
collection, transport, treatment, and disposal. This leads to cause a decline in
the health of the humans and animals along with the whole ecosystem. Therefore,
it has become imperative for us to focus on the proper management of waste.
Waste management involves proper segregation and the scientific recycling of
all the components of the waste and this is the only ideal way to manage the
waste. As there are many methods included in the waste management such as
landfills, incineration/combustion, recovery and recycling, plasma gasification,
composting, waste to energy (recover energy), avoidance/waste minimization,
despite of so many technologies implied for waste management, nanotechnology
proved to be one of the best technology in management of waste because of its
unique characteristics like high surface area to volume ratio, freedom to control
and manipulate the material or synthesizing less toxic substances, time efficient,
labor efficient. All these properties can be used for removal of different type of
toxic material from the waste. In addition to that various other classes of
nanomaterials zeolites, metal containing nanoparticles, dendrimers, quantum
dots, etc. can also be proved efficient than any other process.
S. Vyas · N. Dhiman · R. Kumar (*)
Department of Environment Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
e-mail: rajeev@pu.ac.in
S. Negi
School of Basic and Applied Science, Maharaja Agrasen University, Baddi, India
# Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
R. Kumar et al. (eds.), New Frontiers of Nanomaterials in Environmental Science,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-9239-3_12
253