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ENS-822 SOLID AND HAZARDOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT
Campus SCEE (IESE)
Programs PG
Session Spring Semester 2017
Course Title SOLID AND HAZARDOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT
Course Code ENS-822
Credit Hours 3+0
Pre-Requisutes
Course Objectives Objectives: understanding the generation and management of municipal as well hospital waste. How to apply the concept of reduce, reuse and recycle in the management of municipal waste. Compost making and biogas production form organic waste and finally disposal practices

Outcome:
Knowing about municipal solid waste cycles for handling and its processing with current existing practices while considering legal and economic aspects prevailing in our society.
Detail Content Sources, Classification, Characteristics, Generation, onsite handling and storage, collection, transfer, recycling and disposal techniques of municipal Solid Waste, land filling, thermal conversion, composting, concept of integrated solid waste management, existing practices and their hazards. Economic evaluation of the systems, Hospital waste Management, Hazardous waste management.
Text/Ref Books
  1. Tehobanoglous G, 1993, Integrated Solid Waste Management, McGraw-Hill
  2. Planning and urban change, Ward, S. V., SAGE Publications Ltd. London, UK, 2004
Time Schedule Spring Semester 2015
Faculty/Resource Person Dr. M. Anwar Baig
PhD (University of Arizona, USA)
Discipline: Soil Water and Environmental Science