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Online Course on Solid Waste Management

The aim of this course is to enlighten the state of the art in technology, organizational and legislative developments and practices and financial burdens and benefits of handling solid wastes.

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20162017

For whom?

Junior and mid-career professionals at the management, decision-making and educational level, related to waste handling, urban infrastructure and urban environmental management and engineers and planners dealing with promoting, designing, operating or managing solid waste systems, in low-income countries or countries in transition.

Course participants are typically employed by government departments, private companies, NGOs, universities, research institutions, aid agencies or international bodies such as WHO, UNICEF or UNDP.
 

Dates, Fee, ECTS

Start: 01 September 2016
End: 06 January 2017
ECTS credit points: 5
Deadline IHE application: 18 August 2016 - 23.59 (CET)
Course fee: € 850

Start: 04 September 2017
End: 12 January 2018
Deadline IHE application: 21 August 2017 - 23.59 (CET)
Course fee: € 850

Learning objectives

Upon completion, the participant should be able to:

  1. Exposure to and training in solid waste management, planning and engineering aspects with focus on conditions prevailing in developing countries.

Course structure

Participants complete the course in part-time, distance learning mode over a period of 16 weeks with a total workload of 142 hours (equivalent to 3 weeks full-time). They spend about 9 hours per week reading, listening to voice recordings, watching video clips, participating in (a-)synchronous discussions, obtaining advice and guidance from the mentors and teacher and working (jointly) on assignments. Learning is with and from each other.

Course content

The course includes the following topics:

  • Introduction to Solid Waste Management: waste quantity and quality, generation of waste per capita and region; composition of waste; small scale industry waste, organic agricultural waste (some specific cases as examples);
  • Waste Collection & Transport: collection of mixed waste or of source separated waste, collection logistics, transfer stations; machine park planning; Sub-contractors;
  • Treatment/disposal Technologies: dumping, sanitary landfills, mechanical-biological treatment, incineration, anaerobic digestion, composting; recycling of plastics, batteries, e-waste, Green House Gas emission and emission modeling, CDM, energy recovery;
  • Financial, Social and Institutional aspects: costs of collection, separation, management; equipment costs; social costs, stake holders, scavengers, public health issues, policy and legislation.

Examination

Active participation in life and learning platform-based discussions and group activities, and submission of all assignments valued at or above 40% will result in receiving a certificate of course completion issued by UNESCO-IHE. In addition, passing the on-line course examination results in receiving 5 ECTS (European Credit Transfer System). In many Master's or Doctorate programs in European Institutions for higher Education including UNESCO-IHE, ECTS can be looked at as educational currency: you can earn ECTS in one course so as to obtain an exemption for another course.