organic wastes

"How does garbage become useful compost? Follow each step--from garbage to compost--in this fascinating book!"--.

A guide to waste in all its forms, including household trash, industrial byproducts, radioactive waste, and airborne emissions, and explains the hazards waste poses to land, air, and water, and covers existing and proposed methods of handling it, with information on the environmental movement and government regulation.

Contains facts, tables, charts, and statistics that provide current and historical information about a range of environmental issues, focusing on garbage and other pollution, with discussion of municipal solid waste, recycling, air pollution, water contamination, hazardous waste, and public opinion and environmental policy.

Presents a comprehensive survey of the problems associated with waste management and pollution in America and examines groundwater pollution, hazardous wastes, environmental policies, and ways to reduce the amount of waste through recycling and composting.

Presents experiments that explore the properties and erosion of soil, recycling, and organic waste.

Describes ten disgusting places including coal mines, hog farms, slaughterhouses, and the dump; and explains what makes them so nasty.

Discusses through text and photographs the way to choose foods, store them, and dispose of them in a manner that is not destructive to the environment.