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Terminated in academic year 2007/2008

Introduction to Waste Management

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 546-0339/01
Abbreviation ÚdOH
Course title Introduction to Waste Management
Credits 4
Coordinating department Department of Environmental Engineering
Course coordinator prof. Ing. Vladimír Čablík, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

Lectures:

Introduction to waste management - an introduction to the study
Legislation on waste management
Waste Management Terminology
Establishment and characterization of waste (municipal waste, industrial wastes, wastes from agriculture, waste from construction activities)
Waste management

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.