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Introduction to Waste Management

Language of instruction 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.

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

MESKERS, Christina; WORRELL, Ernst a Markus A. REUTER, eds. Handbook of Recycling: State-of-the-art for Practitioners, Analysts, and Scientists. 2nd ed. Elsevier, 2023. ISBN 978-0-323-85514-3 .
HASAN, Syed E. Introduction to Waste Management: A Textbook. Hoboken: Wiley, 2022. ISBN 978-1-119-43393-4 .
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 .

Advised literature

VAN EWIJK, Stijn a Julia STEGEMANN. An Introduction to Waste Management and Circular Economy. London: UCL Press, 2023. ISBN 978-1-80008-466-7 . DOI 10.14324/111.9781800084650.
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.