Global waste management (5 cr)
Code: 5100BI79-3001
General information
Enrollment
02.12.2020 - 15.01.2021
Timing
15.02.2021 - 28.03.2021
Number of ECTS credits allocated
5 op
Mode of delivery
Contact teaching
Unit
Engineering and Business
Teaching languages
- English
Seats
20 - 50
Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Energy and Environmental Technology
Teachers
- Marketta Virta
- Henna Knuutila
- Piia Nurmi
- Sonja Lankiniemi
- Ilona Engblom
Teacher in charge
Piia Nurmi
Groups
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PEYTES17
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PEYTES18A
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PEYTES18B
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PEYTES18
Objective
The student:
1. Understand the principles of waste legislation and
2. Recognize the need for legislative incentives
3. Recognizes the roles of different operators and the best practices of operational waste management.
4. Understand the social and environmental impacts of waste management globally
5. Practice work in a multidisciplinary and multicultural team
6. Practice think in a customer-oriented way
7.Practice to act independently using external networks and resources to manage a work successfully
Content
In this course you'll familiarize yourself with the practices of waste management from workplace safety to transportation. The main goal is to understand the usual daily practises of operational waste management. You will also get information about waste legislation in the EU get understanding the waste management in the developing countries.
Materials
On ITSlearning platform.
They include 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
As this is an online course based on tasks:
- 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
Assignments
Quiz DL 28.2.
Learning report 1 DL 28.2.
Group assignment DL 21.3.
Individual assignment: peer review DL 28.3.
Learning report 2 DL 28.3.
Self & Peer review DL 28.3.
The course is 5 ects so the workload is 135 hours all together.
Content scheduling
Course will take place during 15.02.2021 - 28.03.2021
In this course the student familiarizes themself with the practices of waste management from workplace safety to transportation. The main goal is to understand the usual daily practices of operational waste management. The student will also get information about waste legislation in the EU and learn to understand waste management in the developing countries.
Course topics are:
Organization's waste management
Workplace safety
Waste collection and transportation
Hazardous waste
Global waste management
Evaluation scale
H-5
Assessment methods and criteria
Grade will be determined by the following way:
Quiz 20%
Learning report 1 15%
Group assignment 30% (15% teacher’s assessment and 15 % peer assessment)
Learning report 2 15%
Self & peer review 20%
Returns more than a week late are not evaluated.
Assessment criteria, fail (0)
Student has not returned tasks in deadline.
Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1-2)
Student poorly understands the social and environmental impacts of waste management globally.
Student has shortcomings in their independent work management and use of external networks and resources. Student has difficulties to work in a multidisciplinary and multicultural team.
Assessment criteria, good (3-4)
Student understands the social and environmental impacts of waste management globally. Student practices to act independently using external networks and resources to manage a work successfully. Student practices to work in a multidisciplinary and multicultural team.
Assessment criteria, excellent (5)
Student excellently understands the social and environmental impacts of waste management globally. Student acts independently using external networks and resources to manage a work excellently. Student works excellently in a multidisciplinary and multicultural team.