Waste. Topics
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These themes were also developed in some lectures and visits of the Advanced Training Program on Sustainable Development and Environmental Management.
| Waste Treatment | Lectures and visits |
. Criteria for intervention in case of soil pollution, procedures for the characterisation plan, the defining of land reclamation schedule and remediation method.
. Techniques used in the composting process.
| Waste Management | Lectures and visits |
. Current policies and the integrated waste management approach, in particular the monitoring tools and the sustainability challenge.
. Urban waste origin, characteristics, collection and treatment of municipal solid waste. Possible utilisation of dry and wet fraction.
. Efficiency and impacts of different integrated schemes.
. Background, evolution and current approach of European policies in the field of Solid Waste Management (SWM).
. Economic analysis: disposal vs recovery/recycling, applied cost-benefit analysis, economic instruments and SWM, market failures in the SWM industry, private sector involvement and opportunities for liberalization.
. Waste management industry in Europe and comparisons between patterns of industrial organization and patterns of financial schemes: who pays for SWM.
. The companies. In Italy, Europe and China: fundamental role of the recycling/recovery industry in economic, occupational, technological and environmental terms.
| Hazardous Waste | Lectures and visits |
. Origin, characteristics, collection and treatment of hazardous waste. Main treatment processes and their advantages and disadvantages.
. Hospital waste: acquisition of some basic information on how a typical Italian hospital manages the disposal of its waste, according to European and Italian legislation, starting from the quantity and type of waste produced inside the hospital, its coding, storage, collection and disposal.
