Waste Management

Objectives

The main outcomes of this course are to enable the trainees to have a clear understanding and more awareness of the importance of waste minimisation and waste management.

DAY 1

• Environmental Threats
• How population and economic (industrialisation) growth has led to current problems
• Governments Responses
• Rising level of legislation (e.g. EPA/IPC, IPPC, Env.Act, Packaging Regs, Landfill Tax, Climate Tax)
• General waste strategy (hierarchy)

DAY 2

• Waste Minimisation I
• Awareness of true cost of waste Inefficiency = Pollution
• Video - Pollution Prevention Pays

DAY 3

• Waste Minimisation II
• Simple site mass balance
• Possible areas for savings
• Energy Savings, Techniques, Methods and Calculations
• Case Studies

DAY 4

• Where Next
• Move from awareness to action
• Remedy and Prevention of Pollution
• Site assessment
• Method of analysis
• Remedy Processes
• Case studies
• Assessments & Certifications