Wastes Management

- The main objective of waste management

- Legislation of waste
- An overview of important legislative provisions of environment
- Legislative rules of waste management, inc. implementing legislation

- Characteristics of selected types of waste - origin, the treatment
- Municipal waste - characterization of municipal waste, separate collection, hazardous substances in municipal waste, packaging materials, disposal of municipal waste
- Industrial waste - waste from the chemical industry, waste from the glass plants, agricultural waste, construction waste, waste from mining, energy waste, waste from metallurgical operations

- Waste treatment technology:
- Landfill waste - guidelines for the selection of landfill sites, sealing, dewatering, degassing of the landfill, landfill reclamation
- Biological methods of waste - composting, anaerobic digestion, biodegradation
- Thermal method
- Physical and chemical treatment of waste - characterization of selected methods