Solid Waste Management

1. Solid waste management
Eng. Kareem H. Mokhtar
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4. Important notes
• Make sure to submit your work BEFORE the Due date

5. Assignments
You will get your feed back
After submitting your assignment
and you should:
1- submit before the due date
2- solve all the questions
3- submit your assignment as neat
as possible
NEVER copy your assignment!!!

6. Quizzes
1- Quizzes will start at a certain time
2- You are not allowed to flip your quiz
until you hear that the quiz will start now.
3- When you hear put your pens down,
stop answering immediately.
4- Follow the instructor’s directions
Never Cheat !!

7. Report and a presentation
• Form groups of ”2”
• Be on time
• Stick to the time limit
• Your report must be written electronically

11. Solid waste
• Municipal Solid waste
• Agricultural waste
• Industrial waste
• Hazardous waste

12. Municipal Solid waste
• From residential, commercial, and
Institutional activities
• It is relative small fraction but
the most visible fraction

13. Agricultural waste
• large amounts of agricultural waste during harvest
• food processing activities

14. Industrial waste
• solid waste generated by manufacturing or industrial processes
• electric power generation
• Examples: sludge, ash, radioactive wastes.

15. Hazardous waste
• Small amounts compared to the other categories
• The most important categories of waste due to the severity of its impacts on
public health and the environment
• Waste material that is reactive, ignitable, corrosive, toxic, radioactive, or
infective
• Radioactive waste, biomedical waste, plastics and electronic waste (e-waste)

16. Importance of Solid Waste Management

17. Solid Waste Affects
• Public health hazard
• Water pollution
• Soil pollution
• Air pollution

18. What we will deal with
• Sources of solid waste
• Waste management techniques
• Methods of sorting wastes
• Characterization of waste
• Design of different disposal techniques
• Forecasting waste generation