Unit 1 Introduction

6 lecture hours

• Solid waste sources – Types and sources – Generation rates – Potential of disease – Nuisance and other problems – Need for solid and hazardous waste management – Elements of integrated waste management and roles of stakeholders – Salient features of Indian legislations on management and handling of municipal solid wastes
• hazardous wastes
• biomedical wastes
• electronic wastes
• plastics waste

Unit 2 Waste Characterization and Source Reduction

6 lecture hours

• Waste generation rates and variation – Composition
• chemical and biological properties of solid wastes – Hazardous Characteristics – TCLP tests – waste sampling and characterization plan - Source reduction of wastes - Recycling and reuse

Unit 3 Storage, Collection and Transport of Wastes

6 lecture hours

• Functional elements of solid waste– Handling and segregation of wastes at source – Collection and separation – Containers and its location – Collection systems and its example – physical
• chemical and microbiological characteristics of waste – - Need for transfer and transport – Transfer stations Optimizing waste allocation– compatibility
• labeling and handling of hazardous wastes – hazardous waste manifests and transport - Transfer station

Unit 4 Waste Processing Technologies

• Objectives of waste processing – material separation and processing technologies – biological and chemical conversion technologies – methods and controls of Composting - thermal conversion technologies and energy recovery – incineration – solidification and stabilization of hazardous wastes - treatment of biomedical wastes 6 Subject Code: 3721713 w.e.f