Leading university in the course development: al-Farabi Kazakh National University
Contact: Zhanar Shortanbaeva, zhanar.shortanbaeva@kaznu.kz
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Learning outcomes
After this course students:
- can review the legislative base for waste and waste management
- can correctly operate the terminology in the field of waste and waste management
- can interpret the main points of regulatory documents in the field of waste and waste management
- can distinguish waste types, waste hazard classes
- can analyze requirements for the collection, transportation, sorting, storage and treatment of waste
- can assemble information on the best available waste management methods in the world
- can employ data of the morphological and chemical composition of the waste for making decisions on further actions with it
- can appraise on the economic and environmental feasibility of recycling or disposal of waste
- can calculate the amount of raw materials extracted from a certain amount of the waste
Competences obtained by students:
- be able to develop waste prevention and management activities
- can apply regulatory documents for independent work in the field of waste management.
- can make suggestions for improving waste management system
- can assess the existing situation in the field of waste disposal
- can make a waste management plan
Main Topics
- Conceptual framework in the field of waste management
- Regulatory framework for waste and waste management operations
- Classification of municipal solid waste
- Features of the treatment of municipal waste as a new type of raw materials