This course offers instruction in the fundamentals of solid waste management including characteristics of solid wastes, refuse storage, collection, transportation, and disposal methods, financing methods and solid waste planning. The course includes a bold approach to routing for mechanized solid waste collection activities, as well as an overview of routing to affect increased productivity, cost reduction, public relations through proper route planning and safety. This course is an introduction to the Science of Resource Recovery. It presents a broad overview of the methods and techniques, equipment and facilities required in recovery processes.
Emphasis is placed on costs and management of the recovery process.
Nuclear and non-nuclear types of resource recoveries are studied. It contains an overview of the handling of materials for both resource recovery and disposition of hazardous and non- hazardous waste. The future needs of the public and private sectors are studied.