this conference proceedings contains 93 papers. the sessions include: oil wastes; land disposal; paper wastes; agricultural wastes; animal wastes; pharmaceutical wastes; textile wastes; hazardous/toxic wastes; metal wastes; plating wastes; chemical wastes; coal, coke, power plant wastes; physical/biological systems; and food wastes. several papers discuss: anaerobic filter process; sludge disposal; fine-grain soils compaction; asbestos separation; egg-shaped digesters; fluidized bed systems; phenolic wastewater; volatile organics; coal gasification wastewater; chelated nickel; algae metal ion removal; landfill leachate; pcb contaminated soils; wool scour wastewater; incinerators versus landfills; chlorophenol residue thermal destruction; mercury removal; and water reuse. technical and professional papers from this conference are indexed with the conference code no. 04359 in the ei engineering meetings (tm) database produced by engineering information, inc