Waste management

• Basic informations:


  Course instructors:   Slaven Dobrović, Ph. D.
  Daniel Rolph Schneider, Ph. D.
  ECTS points:   4
  Course number:   73053
  Exercises:   auditory exercises

• Course description:

Introduction to the problem of solid waste as one of the biggest environmental problems today. Explaining the modern concept of sustainable waste management which is, along with the primary measures for avoiding waste generation, based on material and energy recovery. Interpretation of individual waste treatment practices and their analysis in terms of:
1. conservation of material and energy resources,
2. emissions of harmful substances into the environment, and
3. techno-economic characteristics.


• Literature:

- Tchobanoglous G., Kreith F., Handbook of solid waste management, McGraw-Hill, 2002.
- McDougall F. R., White P. R., Franke M., Hindle P., Integrated Solid Waste Management: a Life Cycle Inventory, Blackwell Publishing, 2001.
- Waste Management Options and Climate Change - Final report to the European Commission, DG Environment, 2001.