Solid Waste Management
- Offered byIWA
Solid Waste Management at IWA Overview
Duration | 131 days |
Total fee | ₹65,781 |
Mode of learning | Online |
Difficulty level | Intermediate |
Credential | Certificate |
Solid Waste Management at IWA Highlights
- Earn a Certificate of Completion
- Assess the benefits that can be generated from Solid Waste through the various management approaches.
Solid Waste Management at IWA Course details
- Junior and mid-career professionals at the management, decision-making and educational level, related to waste handling, urban infrastructure and urban environmental management and engineers and planners dealing with promoting, designing, operating or managing solid waste systems, in low-income countries or countries in transition
- Upon completion, the participant should be able to:
- Describe main features of the management of Solid Waste and of the technologies involved in the various treatment processes.
- Identify the stakeholders involved in Solid Waste Management planning and execution.
- Assess the benefits that can be generated from Solid Waste through the various management approaches.
- Perform basic calculations for landfills, composting and (financial) planning of waste collection and recycling schemes.
- The aim of this course is to enlighten the state of the art in technology, organizational and legislative developments and practices and financial burdens and benefits of handling solid wastes
Solid Waste Management at IWA Curriculum
Introduction to Solid Waste Management
waste quantity and quality, generation of waste per capita and region; composition of waste; small scale industry waste, organic agricultural waste (some specific cases as examples)
Waste Collection & Transport
collection of mixed waste or of source separated waste, collection logistics, transfer stations; machine park planning; Sub-contractors
Treatment/disposal Technologies
dumping, sanitary landfills, mechanical-biological treatment, incineration, anaerobic digestion, composting; recycling of plastics, batteries, e-waste, Green House Gas emission and emission modeling, CDM, energy recovery
Financial, Social and Institutional aspects
costs of collection, separation, management; equipment costs; social costs, stake holders, scavengers, public health issues, policy and legislation.
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