PROGRAM'S BACKGROUND

Governments around the world have become aware that fast solutions to waste management, mainly relying landfill disposal, cannot offer a sustainable solution in a world with growing populations and ever increasing dynamics of product development for human needs, which are often created by the industry itself. It is not just the volume of waste produced but also the composition and nature of waste often containing compounds which would not decay for centuries or would manifest high toxicity if in contact with the biosphere, that require new ways of dealing with this problem. The approach which encompasses as a most suitable strategy was termed 3R’s, where remediation, re-use and recycle, in this order, are seen as the best activities. Recently, re-think is added as a fourth action (4R’s) applied in order to, for example, recover energy from waste that cannot be reduced, reused or recycled.

The treatment and disposal of industrial waste is a major concern within the broad spectrum of environmental issues. The minimization and ultimate elimination of waste requires significant increases in industrial expertise and efficiency. The powers of regulatory bodies are being strengthened worldwide to enable the enforcement of new protection measures and many industries now face difficulties satisfying legislative demands. Various techniques are open to the waste managers and environmental engineers and personnel including emissions control, water treatment, solid waste disposal, recycling and energy extraction from waste.

This program enables the attendees to acquire the knowledge and develop the skills necessary to identify the problems with current waste management systems and propose integral systems that will contribute to minimize pollution and health risks while achieving economic optimization and social acceptability. Delegates will be able to produce waste management plans for their workplace, have an understanding and appreciation of the requirements of waste management in order to produce a plan for their business during the program. It will teach you how to properly identify, accumulate, and minimize hazardous waste, how to develop a contingency plan and how to comply with land disposal restrictions. The program provides an in-depth look at the latest regulatory requirements, waste exemptions and exclusions, new universal waste requirements, standards for hazardous waste generators, and waste minimization. 

PROGRAM'S OBJECTIVES

This Program’s Attendees Will Be More Able To:

›       Understand the principal legislation governing waste management

›       Apply the methodology for waste identification, segregation, classification and disposal

›       Understand the roles and responsibilities of all parties involved in the waste management chain

›       Identify opportunities for waste minimization

›       Develop teamwork and communication skills required for multi-disciplinary civil and environmental engineering objectives

›       Describe how a budget is applied to managing a specific waste management enterprise

›       Explain the cyclic nature of the water system and its relationship to environmental waste management

›       Monitor and recommend improvements to a specified recycling enterprise

›       Develop contingency plans

›       Conduct a successful waste minimization program

›       Acquire the knowledge and develop the skills necessary to identify the problems with current waste management systems

›       Propose integral systems that will contribute to minimize pollution and health risks while achieving economic optimization and social acceptability

›       Produce waste management plans for their workplace

›       Have an understanding and appreciation of the requirements of waste management

›       Properly identify, accumulate, and minimize hazardous waste

›       Comply with land disposal restrictions and the latest regulatory requirements, waste exemptions and exclusions, new universal waste requirements, standards for hazardous waste generators, and waste minimization

PROGRAM'S ATTENDEES

›       Environmental Managers

›       Environmental Engineers

›       Environmental Coordinators

›       Health and Safety Managers

›       Health and Safety Engineers

›       Facility Managers

›       Environmental Personnel

›       Hazardous Waste Managers

›       Any personnel with responsibility for developing, implementing and maintaining waste management systems

PROGRAM'S OUTLINE

›       An introduction to waste management

›       Outline of legislative requirements

›       Waste identification: what is a RCRA hazardous waste, universal waste, non-hazardous waste?

›       The latest recycling rules, and exclusions

›       How to properly accumulate and store hazardous waste on site

›       Land disposal restrictions and waste disposal methods

›       Emergency preparedness, contingency plans, and security rules

›       The EPA and DOT rules for completing the hazardous waste manifest

›       Hazardous waste recordkeeping, reporting, and training

›       Producing a waste management plan

›       Identification of waste operations within the business

›       Setting realistic targets for waste management

›       Review of methods available for managing waste

›       Guidance on design and implementation of appropriate control measures

›       Monitoring, recording and reporting progress

›       Granular activated carbon (liquid & off gas)

›       Solvent Extraction (liquid and solids)

›       Composting and Heap Pile Bioremediation

›       Advanced Oxidation Processes (liquid, gas and solids)

›       Photochemical processes (liquid and gas)

›       Quantitative risk assessment , hazard identification, exposure assessment and risk assessment

›       Conservation and waste

›       Man and conservation

›       Conservation

›       Ecological and economic value

›       Overkill

›       The effects of industry on the environment

›       Types of pollution

›       The effects of atmospheric pollution

›       Acid rain

›       The greenhouse effect

›       The greenhouse gases

›       Ozone

›       Urbanization

›       Nuclear fuel and waste

›       Nuclear fission

›       Nuclear fuel

›       Nuclear waste

›       Health risks

›       Water and its treatment

›       Industrial effluent

›       Impurities in water

›       Water and health

›       Prevention and the removal of pollution from water

›       Methods of purification

›       Recycled water

›       Second-hand water

›       Waste and Recycling

›       Waste materials

›       Dumps

›       Introduction to recycling

›       Recycling plastics

›       Recycling metal

›       Recycling glass

›       Recycling paper and rags

›       Recycling rubber

›       Gas from landfills

›       The future

›       The reduction of domestic waste

›       National waste strategy

›       Waste minimization

›       Targets

›       Special waste

›       Legal obligations

›       General requirements

›       Control of pollution act

›       Environmental protection act

›       Environment act and related regulations

›       Health and safety at work, etc.

›       Act and related regulations

›       Landfill directive and regulations

›       Controlled waste

›       Special waste

›       Organization-specific waste management arrangements

›       Waste output

›       Routes for waste disposal

›       Waste management arrangements and responsibilities

›       Management of controlled waste

›       Identify and describe the waste

›       Keep the waste safely

›       Transfer to the right person

›       Receipt of the waste

›       Checking (monitoring and surveillance)

›       Management of special waste

›       Definition

›       Classification

›       Movement of special waste

›       Monitoring and inspection

›       Links to environmental management systems and objectives

›       Organization specific environmental policy

›       Environmental management systems and standards

›       ISO 14001

›       Organization specific targets and processes

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