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

Evaluation methods and criteria

Anne Kasari's part of the caource is evaluated by the activity in the lessons and short tests after each 3 hour lesson in Tabula-

Assessment scale

0-5

Learning materials

Lessons, excursions, conversations, practices.

Practical training and working life cooperation

excursions

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

Anne Kasari's part: not passed tests and not attending to lessons