2. After knowing the history of the product, better recycling will occur.
3. Materials having end-of-life can be used in a better way.
4. Improved design for environmentally friendly products. More eco-friendly
products will be manufactured.
5. The market will become more transparent and clear for the customers.
6. The waste amount will get reduced, recycling will get increased and thus the
environment will be safe.
12.9 Conclusion
More civilization leads to increase the amount of waste in the society and creates a
problem of waste management. For reducing this problem, with time, many new
methods have been introduced which even help in the reduction of the waste but
along with that causes many harmful effects to environment, human, animals, and
plants. Therefore to solve such problem, nanotechnology was introduced having
some unique properties such as high surface area to volume ratio, freedom to control
and manipulate the material or synthesizing less toxic substances, time efficient,
labor efficient, etc. and thus the waste management will become easy. In this, chapter
we tried to cover up, the relationship between the waste management and the
nanotechnology, the role of nanotechnology in waste water treatment, leachate
treatment, and the waste recycling using nanotechnology.
Acknowledgments Rajeev kumar gratefully acknowledges the financial support for this work
from the DST-SERB “SB/EMEQ-042-2014” as well as U.G.C (F. No. 194-2/2016 New Delhi,
India).
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org/10.1021/cr300133d
Ali I, Alharbi OM, Othman ZA, Mohaimeedd AM, Alwarthand A (2019) Modeling of fenuron
pesticide adsorption on CNTs for mechanistic insight and removal in water. Environ Res
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delivery applications. In: Natural polymer drug delivery systems, vol 1, Cham, Springer, pp
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3. Materials having end-of-life can be used in a better way.
4. Improved design for environmentally friendly products. More eco-friendly
products will be manufactured.
5. The market will become more transparent and clear for the customers.
6. The waste amount will get reduced, recycling will get increased and thus the
environment will be safe.
12.9 Conclusion
More civilization leads to increase the amount of waste in the society and creates a
problem of waste management. For reducing this problem, with time, many new
methods have been introduced which even help in the reduction of the waste but
along with that causes many harmful effects to environment, human, animals, and
plants. Therefore to solve such problem, nanotechnology was introduced having
some unique properties such as high surface area to volume ratio, freedom to control
and manipulate the material or synthesizing less toxic substances, time efficient,
labor efficient, etc. and thus the waste management will become easy. In this, chapter
we tried to cover up, the relationship between the waste management and the
nanotechnology, the role of nanotechnology in waste water treatment, leachate
treatment, and the waste recycling using nanotechnology.
Acknowledgments Rajeev kumar gratefully acknowledges the financial support for this work
from the DST-SERB “SB/EMEQ-042-2014” as well as U.G.C (F. No. 194-2/2016 New Delhi,
India).
References
Agarwal R, Chaudhary M, Singh J (2015) Waste management initiatives in India for human well
being. Eur Sci 1:105–127
Ali I (2012) New generation adsorbents for water treatment. Chem Rev 112:5073–5091. https://doi.
org/10.1021/cr300133d
Ali I, Alharbi OM, Othman ZA, Mohaimeedd AM, Alwarthand A (2019) Modeling of fenuron
pesticide adsorption on CNTs for mechanistic insight and removal in water. Environ Res
170:389–397. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2018.12.066
Andas S, Ghani ZA, Suffian YM (2015) Review on applications of nanoparticles in landfill leachate
treatment. Appl Mech Mater 802:525–530. https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.
802.525
Attar S, Ranveer A (2015) Carbon nanotubes and its environmental applications. J Environment Sci
Comput Sci Eng Technol 4:304–311
Barakat MA (2011) New trends in removing heavy metals from industrial wastewater. Arab J Chem
4:361–377. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.arabjc.2010.07.019
Bhatia S (2016) Nanoparticles types, classifi cation, characterization, fabrication methods and drug
delivery applications. In: Natural polymer drug delivery systems, vol 1, Cham, Springer, pp
1–32. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41129-3_2
276
S. Vyas et al.