Sustainable Municipal Waste Management with a Zero Waste Approach (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783032059499)

Dr. Alok Prasad Das is presently serving as Assistant Professor in the Department of Life Sciences, at Rama Devi Women's University, Odisha, India. He is Academician, Researcher, and Author of journal articles, several books, and book chapters. He is Editorial Member of several reputed journals. With more than 15 years of research experience, Dr. Das has been supported through various research grants from the Department of Science and Technology and the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India. His research and innovation work, done in national and international collaborations, has appeared in over 130 publications; and his contributions have been recognized by several awards. His area of expertise includes bioremediation and bioleaching of mining pollutants, bioconversion of environmental waste to value-based products, bioremediation of microplastics and microfiber pollutants, and geomicrobiology of extreme habitats.

Dr. Kosala Sirisena is currently serving as Senior Lecturer in the Department of Environmental Technology, at University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. He is Passionate Educator and Accomplished Researcher in microbial ecology and environmental biotechnology, with over a decade of research and teaching experience. He obtained his Ph.D. in cell and molecular biosciences from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Following the completion of his Ph.D., he worked as Postdoctoral Research Fellow at several universities/institutions including Victoria University of Wellington, GNS Science, and Lincoln University in New Zealand, as well as at the Carnegie Institution of Washington and Rutgers University in the United States. He has supervised numerous undergraduate and postgraduate research projects, earning the prestigious SUSRED Award for 2024 from the National Science Foundation of Sri Lanka for excellence in Ph.D. supervision.

Ms. Dipalee Bhanja is Research Scholar, with environmental biotechnology as a major research expertise. Her research is focused on various aspects of bioremediation including biomedical pollution, its effect on the environment, consequences of heavy metal pollutants' exposure in humans, and long-term sustainable technologies for remediation of these pollutants. She has more than 8 years of experience in microbial isolation and screening techniques form extreme habitats.