Solid Waste Technology and Management

• Explain and use important terms related to waste generation: waste source, waste types, waste fractions, source separation, unit generation rates.
• Describe methods for characterization of waste.
• Design and explain systems for waste collection, transport, and transfer of waste.
• Describe waste treatment technologies, and explain important physical, chemical, and biological processes involved.
• Describe technologies for recycling of important waste fractions.
• Describe technologies for landfilling of waste, and explain important physical, chemical, and biological processes involved.
• Describe amounts and composition of waste in Denmark, and explain how these affect the design of the waste management system.
• Describe important aspects related to consumption of resources as well as emissions from waste collection, treatment, recycling, and landfilling of waste, and identify potential environmental impacts from the relevant technologies.
• Identify critical aspects related to environmental assessment of waste management systems
• Prepare and argue a plan for management of the waste in a specific region

Waste generation, amounts and composition; waste collection and separation; reuse and recycling; incineration; biological waste treatment (composting, biogas); landfilling; waste policy and regulation; waste management; environmental assessment of waste management; hazardous waste. Assignment work in groups focusing on planning and evaluation of a waste management system; completed by a report.

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Lectures, group assignments and exercises, guest lectures, excursions