Waste Management Systems

ENSC2424

  • Requisites: This course is available to students in the Biological Sciences Technology - Environmental Monitoring and Assessment program. Prerequisite: ENSC2301.
  • Course Equivalencies:
  • Open Studies: Not Available
  • Credits: 3.00

Waste Management techniques from identification, collection, source-separation, treatment, and disposal are reviewed. Solid and Hazardous Waste/Recyclables are discussed – including regulatory approaches (classification and transportation) to Hazardous Waste Management for general industry and the upstream oil and gas industry. The shift to pollution prevention versus traditional waste management is reinforced. The students will also explore the characteristics and management of wastewaters produced in the major industrial sectors in Alberta: energy extraction and refining, mining, agriculture, and pulp/paper.

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