Study Guide

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.

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 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

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

Content scheduling

The course will take place during 02.02.2023 - 12.03.2023.

The course is online course.

Three online study sessions will be organized:
2.2. Introduction
9.2. information on group work
16.2. help session on group work
2.3. Group assignment presentations

Further information

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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:

Quizz 20% 
Group assignment 50% (40% teacher’s evaluation and 10% peer evaluation) 
Learning report 10% 
Self & peer review 20%

Assessment criteria, fail (0)

Student has not returned tasks within deadlines.