Product Description: Unlike petroleum, solvents, plastics or other organic materials, toxic metals cannot be degraded to non-toxic products. For this reason, the treatment options for metal-containing wastes are severely limited. This volume focuses on developing technologies that have a wide variety of potential industrial applications in reducing the volume, toxicity or mobility of wastes containing heavy metals, and in remediation soil and groundwater contaminated through past disposal practices...read more
9780873392440 | Tms, October 1, 1994, cover price $68.00 | About this edition: Unlike petroleum, solvents, plastics or other organic materials, toxic metals cannot be degraded to non-toxic products.