2 Annotated Bibliography

Burnley, S. (2014). Solid Wastes Management. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.

          Burnley begins this text with the definition of waste, types of waste, and processing commercial and industrial wastes, and goes on to discuss treatment of this waste, and its environmental effects. He also discusses its effect on the environment from the gases solid waste can form, and pollutants in general.

          This is definitely a reliable piece to have as support for my paper. It is current (published in 2014), edited by Dr. Stephen Burnley, a doctorate in environmental engineering with an undergraduate degree in chemical engineering (who is also a senior lecturer at Open university in Environmental Engineering), and refers back to renowned theses on waste and pollution.

          This text will be very useful to refer to in the research paper since it offers foundational information to build the essay off of. I plan to begin by talking a little about waste and its background, and branch off of that information into our ideas to treat it more efficiently.

Eleftherios Giovanis, Relationship between recycling rate and air pollution: Waste management in the state of Massachusetts, Waste Management, Volume 40, June 2015, Pages 192-203, ISSN 0956-053X, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wasman.2015.03.006.

          In this journal article, Giovanis Eleftherios relates amounts of waste to dollar amounts of damage to the government in pollution and damage. He brings a mathematical model into what Burnley was discussing in the above source.

          Eleftherios reports the data as a lab report, so we can see all of his work and the equations he uses with reported data, which makes the piece good to refer to in the text since we know the information is accurate.

          Referring to mathematical models in the essay will add another dimension of reliability in the paper since the reader will be able to recreate the reported data himself or herself.

Howell, J. (2015). Alternative Waste Solutions for the Pacific Region: Learning from the Hawai'i Experience. AsiaPacific Issues. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/38699

          This is an article that discusses past attempts in Hawaii to become more efficient with solid waste. Attempts include technologies to harvest energy from waste, and a specific recycling program that assists in removing waste from landfills.

          This is a good source to use, since it refers to events that happened not too long ago, so if there is any question to the article’s validity, a simple search of the topic will allow us to find any inconsistencies in information between this article and any others.
-Energy from waste
-Connecting recycling programs and energy from waste programs

          This will allow me to refer to other creative ideas done to treat waste more effectively, and will add to the fact that this is an important issue that requires us to think critically in figuring out a solution.