Waste Management and Engineering (5 cr)

Objectives (course unit)

After completing this course student:
- is familiar with the principles and practises of waste management
- knows waste legislation and its applications
- knows the waste management techniques
- knows waste recycling and the secondary uses of waste material
- can recycle and manage recycling systems
- knows the principles of landfill construction and management of waste management sites
- can compost and do simple laboratory analyses concerning biowaste and compost quality
- has adopted the 3R principle and understands the necessity of reducing waste amounts an defficient secondary use of waste materials

Content (course unit)

- Composition, collection, transportation and treatment of waste material
- Waste legislation, policies and regulations
- Waste treatment technologies (landfills and their operation, waste incineration, biowaste treatment, hazardours waste treatment)
- Laboratory exercises: composting, leachate tests

Prerequisites (course unit)

Basic Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry courses, Basics for Environmental Technology and Management

Exam schedules

In the end. Anne Kasari will have each week a short test in her part of the course.

Evaluation methods and criteria

Participation to the lectures and excursions. Excursion reports. Tasks given during the lectures. Exam/project work. Task in the laboratory. Anne Kasari's part of the course (4 times 3 hours): attenting actively to lectures (min 50 %) and results of the weekly short tests.

Assessment scale

0-5

Teaching methods

Lectures, excursions, laboratory works.

Learning materials

Special material both e-type and paper. Links to different e-pages.

Student workload

27hours/cr, 135hours

Content scheduling

Legislation; law, act, permits and other kind, collection, transportation, handling, reuse.

Completion alternatives

Tapauskohtaisesti.

Practical training and working life cooperation

4 excursions to different companies, labwork in our lab.

International connections

Teaching in English, students foreigners partly.

Assessment criteria - fail (0) (Not in use, Look at the Assessment criteria above)

Anne Kasari's part: Attending lectures less than 50 %, not passing weekly short test.

Assessment criteria - satisfactory (1-2) (Not in use, Look at the Assessment criteria above)

Anne Kasari's part: Student knows how landfills are supposed to function and what things take into consideration when choosing the location of the landfill.

Assessment criteria - good (3-4) (Not in use, Look at the Assessment criteria above)

Anne Kasari's part: Student knows the principals of the bottom and top structure of the landfill.

Assessment criteria - excellent (5) (Not in use, Look at the Assessment criteria above)

Anne Kasari's part: Student understands the purpose of each layer of the bottom and top structure of the landfill and knows the principals of constructing these layers.