Waste Management
Categories: Waste Management
Waste Management

This introductory programme incorporates the IEMA Resource Efficiency programme and an IEMA Certifcate is awarded following succesful completion of the end-of course examination.

Duration:
A 5-day programme in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

About the Course:
The course is intended for staff new to waste management concepts and activity and includes several site visits. Participants are likely to be drawn from facilities, maintenance management, storage, transport and logistics departments with responsibility for management of industrial, commercial and domestic waste.

It is designed to:
- Give a general overview of environmental management issues and systems
- Develop an understanding of the underlying principles of waste management
- Enable participants to relate the principles to their own actual operating environment and day-to-day experience
- Provide participants with techniques and tools for development of appropriate policies and procedures

Topics covered will include:
- Global Environmental Issues
- Waste Concepts and Definitions
- Trends in Waste Legislation
- Summary of Waste Legislation
- Waste Management Options, including landfill, incineration and composting
- Programme for Contaminated Land
- Duty of Care and the Transfer of Waste
- Handling Hazardous Waste
- Dealing with Packaging and Packaging Waste (Producer Responsibility Packaging Waste)?
- Waste Minimisation (Overview of Waste Minimisation)

Individual waste streams:
- Batteries
- Clinical Waste
- Construction and Demolition Waste
- Electrical and Electronic Equipment
- End of Life Vehicles
- Asbestos Containing Materials
- Glass
- Metals
- Waste Oils
- Ozone Depleting Substances
- Paper
- Polychlorinated Biphenyls Management

Waste minimisation:
- Collecting and Analysing Data
- Identifying Opportunities for Reducing Waste
- Root Cause Analysis and Problem Solving
- Generating Opportunities into Targets
- Evaluating Targets
- Feedback and Communication (Procedure for Consultation and Communication)

The course will be interactive and participative. There will be many minor and major exercises and case study syndicate activities.

There will be an End of Course Examination leading to the IEMA Resource Efficiency Certificate.
 
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Duration5 days
 
£2,240
per delegate