Week 2: Municipal waste: Sources, types and composition
Course Material
- Week 1: Course File for SES-407, Time Table for Fall Semester 2020, Introduction, importance and scope of the course
- Week 2: Municipal waste: Sources, types and composition
- Week 3: Urbanization pattern, growth in waste generation, solid waste management scenario, institutional legal and management aspects, soild waste management policy
- Week 4: Solid waste management and role of community
- Week 5: Methods and technologies in solid waste management Avoidance/waste minimization, repair and reuse, recycle & new product feedstock
- Week 6: Methods and technologies in solid waste management
- Week 7: Waste Minimization Techniques
- Week 8: Landfill, incineration, plasma gasification, gasification and pyrolysis, open burning
- Week 9: Utilization of municipal waste as organic fertilizer and soil conditioner
- Week 10: Need for using MSW compost
- Week 11: Benefits of MSW compost
- Week 12: Environmental implications of MSW compost application
- Week 13: Integrated use of MSW compost with chemical fertilizers
- Week 14: Production of energy from municipal waste
- Week 15: Ethical issues of municipal waste management
- Week 16: International waste management strategies
- Chapters 16
- Department Soil and Environmental Sciences
- Teacher
Dr. Muhammad Zeeshan Manzoor
