Introduction: Industries, commercial facilities and institutions are responsible not only for the products that they produce and sell, but also for the waste materials that they generate. In the past, disposal facilities were cheap and plentiful and businesses had little incentive to reduce waste products they created. Today, a solid waste management plant is required not only for regulatory and environmental reasons, but also for economic viability.
By the end of the training, participants will be able to:
assist participants in making informed decisions about technological choices in solid and hazardous waste management and to explore alternative funding options, particularly the public private partnership.
Welcome, Introduction, Seminar Preview, Learning Outcomes and the Assessment Method
Overview - What Is Waste?
- Waste Classifications
- Testing requirements
- Hazards and consequences
- Regulatory Aspects of Industrial and Municipal Waste Management
- Provincial and federal waste regulations
- Generation, manifesting and transport issues
- Storage and disposal
The Waste Audit
- Doing a waste audit: characterization and quantities
- Waste stream composition - dry recyclables, organics and residuals
- Special wastes
- Calculating your solid/liquid waste by weight and volume
- Laboratory requirements
- Generator registration
Hazardous Waste Storage, Handling and Disposal
- Storage and handling of hazardous waste
- Laboratory characterization-practical strategies and costs
- MOE generator registration- descriptions, inclusive and exclusive language
- Coordinating with NPRI
- On-site treatment alternatives- permitting requirements
- Overall costing-direct and indirect costs
Reduction/Recycling
- How to reduce waste - cut down use, reuse
- Multi-material recycling
- Integrating collection and processing
- MRFs
- Markets for recycling
Refreshments and Networking
Industrial Waste Reduction
- Preparing a waste reduction work plan
- Opportunities for waste reduction through process revisions
- Finding a home for what you think is garbage (market directories/listings)
Landfill
- Landfill operations and requirements
- Design options, operation and optimization fees
An Integrated Municipal Waste Management System
- Streamlining collection services - weekly, bi-weekly and co-collection
- Diversion - current status and future projections
- Reduction, Reuse and Recycle (3Rs)
- Design criteria for selecting appropriate disposal technologies
Processing of Organics
- Composting- Windrow/In-vessel composting
- Sludge and leachate management
- Sanitary landfill options
Incineration
- Design options, construction and operation of incineration
- Hazardous waste management
- Energy from waste
Economic Issues
Transportation - Procedures and Precautions
- Handling and transfer
- Identification
- Bulking Stabilization
- Packaging for disposal
Waste Handling and Emergency Response
- Scenarios for disaster
- Emergency response planning
- Responding to waste related incidents
- Traffic accidents involving hazardous materials
- Liability issues
Questions and Answers and Feedback to Participants on Achievement of Learning Outcomes
Concluding Remarks and Final Adjournment
Management of solid or hazardous wastes for a municipality, industry or waste management company. Decision makers: municipal administrators and engineers, individuals responsible for operational and regulatory compliance, environmental personnel, landfill and recycling supervisors, public health, social workers, environmental consultants and financiers who want to better understand the industry they represent