Environmental Waste Management 100 Hours Certificate Course

There are 6 lessons:

1. Domestic Waste

• Definitions
• The Earths environment
• Conservation and use of resources
• Value of resources: economic, ecological and aesthetic
• Damage being caused
• Urbanisation
• The impact of humans
• Sewage and it's treatment
• Characteristics of sewage
• Components of sewage - solids, organic material, industrial waste
• Decomposition of sewage
• The nitrogen cycle
• Classification of sewage systems
• Storm water systems and management
• Dry rubbish
• Nature of refuse
• Placement and protection of bins
• Trade waste
• Refuse collection systems
• Refuse collection vehicles
• Salvage materials
• Safe disposal of household chemicals

2. Street Cleaning & Disposal Of Refuse

• Types of street refuse
• Methods of street cleaning - gritting, sanding, sweeping, washing, etc
• Cleaning storm water pits
• Managing snow
• Refuse disposal-separation, controlled tipping, combustion, pulversisation, etc
• Refuse for fertiliser
• Methods of refuse Sorting - screening, magnetic, hand sorting
• Types of incinerators
• Vacuum systems for refuse collection - garchey system, gandillon
• Harvesting energy from combustion

3. Industrial Waste

• Types of industrial pollution
• The greenhouse effect
• Ozone depletion

4. Toxic and Nuclear Waste

• Nuclear power
• Nuclear fission
• Mining nuclear fuel
• Uranium enrichment
• Gas diffusion
• Gas centrifuge
• Nuclear waste
• Transporting nuclear waste
• Reprocessing
• Health risks of nuclear waste

5. Water Quality and Treatment

• Industrial effluent
• Pricing control compared with direct control
• Types of water impurities
• Scope of purification
• Managing water for public supply
• Water treatment methods
• Purification methods - sedimentation, filtration, disinfection, aeration, screening, etc
• Recycling sewage water
• Recycling waste water
• Reed bed treatment
• Improving water quality from any source - physical, chemical, biological impurities
• Water borne diseases

6. Recycling Waste

• Scope and nature of recycling
• Rubbish tips (dumps)
• Recycling plastics
• Recycling metals
• Recycling glass
• Recycling paper
• Recycling rubber
• Actions by individuals (at home or work) - reducing, reusing and recycling waste

Please Note: Each lesson culminates in an assignment which is submitted to the school, marked by the school's tutors and returned to you with any relevant suggestions, comments, and if necessary, extra reading.