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Solid Waste Management and Waste Reduction
Techniques
Adam C. Leigland, P.E., AICP
Overview
The
United States disposes of over 236 million tons of solid waste a year, a figure
that has been steadily increasing for over 100 years. The traditional waste
management bureaucracy is dominated by engineers. Engineers have been
successful at designing more efficient and safer disposal methods, but they have
been reluctant to effect strategic planning initiatives that address the whole
waste generation cycle. Source reduction, material reuse, recycling, product
packaging constraints, or industrial process changes—all are examples of steps
that can be taken toward reducing the amount of solid waste. The current
production and management mindset, though, is in many ways still focused only on
finding bigger and better methods of solid waste collection and disposal.
This course will outline many of the strategies the engineers can implement to
move past the current mentality and to more effectively reduce and manage solid
waste.
The
student must take a multiple-choice quiz consisting of forty (40) questions at the end of this course to earn PDH credits.
Specific Knowledge or Skill Attained
This course teaches the following specific knowledge and
skills:
- History of solid waste
management in the US
- Discussion of solid waste
terminology
- Current solid waste
management techniques
- Discussion and analysis of
the waste stream
- Technological waste
recovery techniques
- Financial waste reduction
techniques
- Policy-oriented waste
reduction strategies
Course
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