Faculty of Science

Objectives

To introduce various options available in waste management and land treatment practices as well as waste characteristics and loading rates related to soil management.

Contents

Characterisation of wastes; Sound practices in solid waste management; Pollution by solid wastes, Minimisation and amelioration of solid waste pollution; Case study of a known city/town. The soil and soil characteristics (physical, chemical and biological); Soil water; Soil as a waste utilization system; The ecological value of the soil; Remediation techniques for polluted soils; and Case studies of soil pollution. An appreciation of the soil as a waste utilization system will be done to show the rationale and scope of waste utilization on cultivated land and soil management of solid and liquid wastes.