CIVE 4343 Solid Waste Engineering
Solid waste management plays a crucial role in civil infrastructure and due to its high visibility and significant environmental impact, it serves as a key area for promoting sustainability. By choosing suitable waste processing technologies and implementing efficient management strategies, cities can reduce environmental impacts in a cost-effective way-especially through energy production and material recovery. Key challenges include managing costs, implementing waste diversion programs, ensuring regulatory compliance, recovering energy, dealing with limited landfill space, and addressing public perceptions. This course will explore all aspects of municipal solid waste management, such as waste generation, source reduction, collection, transportation, recycling, resource recovery, landfill disposal, biological treatment, and combustion. Each method’s environmental and economic pros and cons will be examined. Additionally, the course will analyze the regulations and policies governing municipal solid waste. Students will be expected to incorporate technical, economic, environmental, policy, and regulatory factors into designing waste management systems. Both engineering design and policy options will also be emphasized.
Prerequisite
Grade of "C" or better in
CIVE 3331.