Municipal engineering applies to any and all engineering designed to benefit an urban environment. This can include water, power, and other utilities (today, the internet is an obvious newcomer) as well as roads, bus and metro services, and sewage. This branch of engineering obviously includes elements of civil, mechanical, electrical, and hydraulic engineering. Urban architecture theory impacts where and how projects should be built to accommodate the population and landscape architecture relates to the design of parks and other public recreation projects.  While all of these subfields have their own specializations, municipal engineering is special because of its interest in the way these subfields are interconnected in and around a dense population.

Intimately connected with municipal engineering is waste management and sanitation engineering. Cities produce large amounts of liquid, solid, and mixed waste which must be disposed of or recycled as appropriate, so sewage and garbage collection systems require their own study and implementation within the discipline of engineering. Sanitation and municipal engineers must study the process of collection, transport, and disposal or containment of solid waste and the logistical problems involved are complex.

This book introduces the engineering and design concepts behind municipal waste management, as well as covering theory for hazardous and industrial waste management. Multiple real-world examples using data from historic situations help provide additional context for waste management problems and solutions, and attention is paid to both the mechanics of solving these problems and the regulations which need to be followed in the process. The text is designed for both student and professional use and complies with RCRA (Resource Conservation and Recovery Act) federal regulations.

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