Hazardous Waste Management

Description

This course addresses the background and current/future trends in toxic and hazardous waste management. Identifying, testing, and managing medical toxins, hazardous waste, manures, and other waste residuals. It includes topics such as waste minimization, hazardous waste treatment, residuals management, and emergency response.

Additionally, regulations concerning classification, transportation, treatment, and abandon sites will be covered. The course will cover field trips to municipal recycling center, infectious waste incinerator, and landfill operational site.

Learning Outcomes

Identify and interpret the criteria for the classification of a substance as a solid/ hazardous waste along with its history
Identify waste minimization and source reduction along with audits
Assess and describe the procedure for solid/sediment/hazardous waste identification and characterization along with the toxicological parameters of hazardous waste
Identify and describe the protocols for emergency response and risk
Elucidate and interpret the regulations concerning the handling, transportation, and disposal of hazardous, solid, and medical waste
Define and elucidate the listing, management, and treatment of medical/infectious waste
Define and discuss the municipal residual regulations
Synthesize physical/chemical/biological mitigation techniques for the control of hazardous wastes and their sites
Compare and contrast methods of ultimate disposal and sustainable resource recovery
Address and describe solid waste management including landfill operation

Hazardous Waste Management.
Pathways, Fate and Deposition of Hazardous Waste.
Integrated Solid Waste Management Principles and Municipal Residual Regulations.
Transportation of Hazardous Waste.
Treatment Methods and Processes of Hazardous Waste.
Disposal of Hazardous Waste.
Medical-Biomedical-Infectious Waste Management.
Hazardous Waste and Emergency Response.