546-0339 – Introduction to Waste Management (ÚdOH)
| Gurantor department | Department of Environmental Engineering |
| Subject guarantor | prof. Ing. Vladimír Čablík, Ph.D. |
| Study level | undergraduate or graduate |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
Knowledge of waste management in terms of their removal and their efficient material and energy recovery. Ability to distinguish different approaches, to estimate and find best solutions for a specific problem of waste management. Students will be able to obtain information for work experience, demonstrate a general overview and evaluate the problem. Compare different approaches and the practical site of them. Being able to produce results and solve the task independently.
Demonstrate ability to communicate (active both writing and speaking), manage technical terminology.
Teaching methods
Lectures
Tutorials
Teaching by an expert (lecture or tutorial)
Summary
The course provides students with basic information on the issue of waste
economy and waste disposal. The students are acquainted with legal regulations
concerning waste economy, prevention of waste formation, its effective
material and power-producing utilization. Students are also informed about the
following: the most important methods of disposal of the individual types of
industrial waste and municipal refuse, individual technological procedures,
such as collection, sorting and purchase of waste.
Syllabus:
Basics of Waste Economy
Legal Regulations in Waste Economy
Waste Economy Terminology
Waste Formation and Characteristics
Waste Disposal
Compulsory literature:
Recommended literature:
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.