Program Overview
Build Professional Skills in Waste Management Here
This training program develops a cadre of professionals capable of delivering sustainable waste management strategies and solutions. The course equips participants with deep knowledge in solid waste systems, business model innovation, recycling technologies, legal compliance, waste economics, and ecological relevance — empowering them to tackle one of the most urgent global environmental challenges.
What You Will Learn
🧰 Practical waste management systems
⚖️ Waste law, licensing, and policy frameworks
💸 Economic tools for cost-benefit and sustainability analysis
🔄 Circular economy concepts & innovation
🔬 Recycling, upcycling, and energy recovery
🏭 Industry field exposure and applied techniques
Course Modules
CIWM 01 – Introduction to Solid Waste Management
Introduction to waste management, definition of solid waste, principles of waste management, polluter pays principle, extended producer responsibility, precautionary principle, waste hierarchy and typology, waste generation and composition, waste collection and transportation systems, waste segregation system, waste disposal and ecological indicator systems and waste minimization, waste characterization.
CIWM 02 – Hazardous and Health Waste Management
Management Introduction to Hazardous Waste and Health Waste, characterization of Hazardous waste and Health waste, generation and management of Hazardous waste and Health waste. Best practices in Hazardous and Health Wastes, Best Available Technologies (BAT) and business models for Hazardous and Health Wastes.
CIWM 03– Waste Law and Policy
Explores the format and relevance of International, national and local legislations as it relates to waste management, certification and legal compliance such as the Solid waste management Act 2018, Environmental Management Act, 2011, The Environmental Management (Licensing Regulations 2013), Extended Producer Regulation and Hazardous Waste Regulation 2001. The waste policy will cover the geopolitics of waste, urbanization and the role of waste management, institutional responses and policy measures.
CIWM 04– Solid Waste Economics & Finances
Explores economic principles in waste management, economic instruments, monetary valuation of waste business, waste efficiency and management, Cost-Benefit Analysis, Contingent Valuation Methods, waste beneficiation criteria, Solid waste Finance, Financial support tools, Pricing of Municipal waste, Cost recovery framework, Critical decision tool to evaluate business profitability, costs, revenues and operational performance.
CIWM 05 – Circular Economy in Waste Business
Explores Circular economy with the aims to tackle innovations and link business concepts to solid waste management system as means to open up new business opportunities to individual’s households and institutions. The concepts of circular economy and industrial symbiosis currently are the vehicle for creation green economy, businesses, sustainability, Job and wealth creation, the link between sustainable cities and circular economy and sustainable production and consumption.
CIWM 06– Waste to Energy case study /Field Visit
This will explore either a case study of waste to energy industry or A field visit to the Industrial area transforming waste to valuable/usable products (such as plastic waste in land fill to plastic water pipes) or industries handling of Hazardous materials or disposal site /sanitary land fill. Other practical exercise will include Practical knowledge and working of incinerators or treatment disposal systems, and waste entrepreneurship development project
Who Should Enroll
Environmental officers and waste consultants
Local government planners and engineers
Entrepreneurs and green business innovators
Development agency staff
Researchers and postgraduate students
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