**Meet the editors**

Er Sunil Kumar works in Environmental Engineering and Management, specializing in Solid and Hazardous Waste Management. He has been working at NEERI for the last 11 years. He is an Editorial Board member of Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, Open Waste Management Journal and also Regional Editor for Asian Countries, International Journal of Process

Wastes Treatment and Serial Publications in New Delhi. He also edited special issues on various aspects of solid waste management for journals such as Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Journal of Air and Waste Management Association, International Journal of Environment and Pollution, International Journal of Environment and Waste Management, International Journal of Environmental Technology and Management, etc. He is one of the potential reviewers of Many International Journals including Environmental Science & Technology, Bio-resource Technology, Waste Management, Waste Management World, Chemical Engineering Journal, ASCE, Journal of Hazardous Materials, Ecological Engineering, Atmospheric Environment, Environmental Modeling and Software, Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, and Chemosphere. He has published 35 research papers in reputed international journals. Sunil Kumar has done research all over the world.

Dr Ajay Bharti is an Assistant Professor at NERIST, India. He has been working in the area of Environmental Science and Engineering for quite some time. His research area includes municipal solid waste management with an emphasis on processing aspects. He has published many well received papers in international journals.

Contents

**Preface IX** 

Chapter 1 **Anaerobic Treatment and** 

**Part 1 Biogas from Organic Waste 1** 

Chapter 2 **Vermicomposting: Composting with** 

Chapter 3 **The Sanitation of Animal Waste** 

Chapter 4 **The Waste Oil Resulting from Crude** 

and Alexander M. Boronin

A. A. Ansari and S. A. Ismail

**Part 2 Landfill and Other General Aspects of MSW Management 113** 

> Antonio Gallardo, Míriam Prades, María D. Bovea and Francisco J. Colomer

Chapter 6 **Co-Digestion of Organic Waste and Sewage** 

**Biogas Production from Organic Waste 3** 

**Earthworms to Recycle Organic Wastes 29**  Jorge Domínguez and María Gómez-Brandón

Gregor D. Zupančič and Viktor Grilc

**Using Anaerobic Stabilization 49**  Ingrid Papajová and Peter Juriš

**Oil Microbial Biodegradation in Soil 69**  Anatoly M. Zyakun, Vladimir V. Kochetkov

Chapter 5 **Earthworms and Vermiculture Biotechnology 87** 

 **Sludge by Dry Batch Anaerobic Treatment 97**  Beatrix Rózsáné Szűcs, Miklós Simon and György Füleky

Chapter 7 **Separate Collection Systems for Urban Waste (UW) 115** 
