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Introduction to Waste Management

Summary

The course provides students with basic information on the issue of waste
economy and waste disposal. The students are acquainted with legal regulations
concerning waste economy, prevention of waste formation, its effective
material and power-producing utilization. Students are also informed about the
following: the most important methods of disposal of the individual types of
industrial waste and municipal refuse, individual technological procedures,
such as collection, sorting and purchase of waste.

Syllabus:
Basics of Waste Economy
Legal Regulations in Waste Economy
Waste Economy Terminology
Waste Formation and Characteristics
Waste Disposal

Literature

Circular economy and sustainability. Volume 2: Environmental Engineering. Editor Alexandros STEFANAKIS, editor Ioannis NIKOLAOU. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2022. ISBN 978-0-12-821664-4 .
LETCHER, T. M. and VALLERO, Daniel A. (eds.), 2011. Waste: a handbook for management. Amsterdam: Academic Press is an imprint of Elsevier. ISBN 9780123814760 .
Industrial waste treatment / editor Nelson Leonard Nemerow. - Burlington : Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann, c2007,- xx, 561 pp. ISBN 978-0-12-372493-9.
WILLIAMS, P. T. Waste Treatment and Disposal. Wiley, Second Edition. 2005. Available from: Book. ISBN 0-470-84912-6 .

Advised literature

DIAZ, Luis F, M DE BERTOLDI and Werner BIDLINGMAIER, ed. Compost science and technology. 1st ed. - Amsterdam : Elsevier, 2007 - xvi, 364 pp. ISBN 978-0-08-043960-0.
PICHTEL J. Waste Management Practices : Municipal, Hazardous, and Industrial. Boca Raton: CRC/Taylor & Francis, 2005. 659 pp. ISBN 0-8493-3525-6.
EVANS, G. Biowaste and Biological Waste Treatment. London: James & James, 2001. xxi, 194 s. ISBN 1-902916-08-5.
Hazardous waste management / Michael D. LaGrega, Phillip L. Buckingham, Jeffrey C. Evans. - 2nd ed.. - New York: McGraw-Hill, c2001 - xxvi, 1202 s. : il. ISBN 0-07-039365-6.


Language of instruction čeština, čeština, čeština, čeština, čeština, angličtina, čeština
Code 546-0339
Abbreviation ÚdOH
Course title Introduction to Waste Management
Coordinating department Department of Environmental Engineering
Course coordinator prof. Ing. Vladimír Čablík, Ph.D.