Book provides a broad overview of environmental issues and impacts; latest trends and technologies in hazardous waste treatment; site assessment; landfilling, storage, handling, transportation and disposal of solid wastes; waste minimization and medical/biomedical and infectious waste management. In addition, it explores waste site remediation and clean-up technologies, and new and continuing regulatory and policy statutes. The book has been skillfully designed and well supplemented with diagrams, figures, glossary and index so as to make it self-contained and comprehensible. It covers the syllabus prescribed by various Indian universities for this subject for both graduate and undergraduate courses of engineering, life sciences, environment and allied courses. Besides the students and teachers of the subject, the book will prove a lasting and invaluable reference source to the general readers, industrialists, planners and environmental authorities.