Study Guide

Objective

Student:
1. Understands the principles of resource efficiency and waste hierarchy
2. Understands the most commonly used waste treatment techniques
3. Practice work in a multidisciplinary and multicultural team
4. Practice to act independently using external networks and resources to manage a work successfully

Content

In this first part you'll familiarize yourself with the waste management as a part of circular economy and the essential concepts of waste management, recycling and the other ways to use waste as a resource. The main goal is to understand the big picture of topics relating to waste management and waste treatment.

Materials

On Itslearning platform.

Material includes articles, guidebooks, strategies and real-life examples from EU, waste management organizations, researchers and companies.

Teaching methods

Activating tasks on online platform, studies on waste management.

Exam schedules

No exam.

This course is based on assignments:
- You don't have the possibility to raise your final grade or a grade for an individual task.

International connections

Tasks and materials on Itslearning platform.

Completion alternatives

The only way to do the course is to do the tasks, no alternative ways to complete the course.

Student workload

The course is 5 ects so the workload is 135 hours all together.

Content scheduling

The course will take place during 9.1.2023 - 10.2.2023.

The course is online course.

Four online study sessions will be organized:

9.1.2023 Introduction
23.1.2023 Essay help session (voluntary)
30.1.2023 Calculation task
6.2.2023 Calculation task help session (voluntary)
TBA Visit to Lounavoima

In this course student familiarizes themselves with the waste management as a part of circular economy and the essential concepts of waste management, recycling and the other ways to use waste as a resource. The main goal is to understand the big picture of topics relating to waste management and waste treatment.

Course topics are: 1. Circular economy and waste hierarchy 2. Separate waste collection systems 3. Waste treatment and recycling

Further information

Itslearning and email

Evaluation scale

H-5

Assessment methods and criteria

In order to pass the course all assignments must be returned within deadlines.

Course grade will be determined by the following way:

Quiz 25%    
Essay and discussion/debate 30%    
Calculation task 30%   
Learning report 10%    
Self review 5%  

Assessment criteria, fail (0)

Student has not returned tasks within deadlines.