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Introduction to Waste Management

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction English
Code 546-0339/06
Abbreviation ÚdOH
Course title Introduction to Waste Management
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Environmental Engineering
Course coordinator prof. Ing. Vladimír Čablík, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Basic of waste management, legislation in waste management, waste management terminology
2. Establishment and characterization of waste from mining and mineral processing,
3. Establishment and characterization of waste from metallurgical plants,
4. Establishment and characterization of waste from nuclear and non nuclear energy,
5. Establishment and characterization of municipal waste
6. Establishment and characterization of waste from food industries, waste from agriculture,
7. Establishment and characterization of waste from glass and ceramic industries, scrap wood and paper industry, waste from textile and leather industry,
8. Establishment and characterization of waste from medical facilities
9. Establishment and characterization of waste from construction
10. Waste management (landfill waste, thermal waste disposal methods, biological methods of waste treatment)
11. Packaging, collection and purchase of waste
12. Sampling
13. Transport of dangerous goods (waste)

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.


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