Global waste management (5 cr)
Code: TE00DH06-3001
General information
- Enrollment
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01.06.2025 - 01.09.2025
Registration for introductions has not started yet.
- Timing
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18.11.2025 - 19.12.2025
The implementation has not yet started.
- Number of ECTS credits allocated
- 5 cr
- Local portion
- 0 cr
- Virtual portion
- 5 cr
- Mode of delivery
- Distance learning
- Unit
- Engineering and Business
- Campus
- Kupittaa Campus
- Teaching languages
- English
- Seats
- 15 - 40
- Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Energy and Environmental Technology
- Teachers
- Marketta Virta
- Henna Knuutila
- Sonja Lankiniemi
- Course
- TE00DH06
Evaluation scale
H-5
Content scheduling
Course will take place during 18.11.2025 - 19.12.2025
Objective
1. The student understands the principles of resource efficiency and waste hierarchy.
2. The student understands the principles of waste legislation in EU.
3. The student understands the social and environmental impacts of waste management globally.
4. The student practices acting independently using external networks and resources to manage a work successfully.
In this course you will learn about waste management from a global perspective. The main goal is to understand the social and environmental impacts on waste management globally. You will also get information about the waste legislation in the EU and an understanding of waste management in the developing countries.?
Materials
All information you will find in ITS
Teaching methods
Activating tasks on online platform, studies on global waste management.
Pedagogic approaches and sustainable development
100% Online
Completion alternatives
The only way to do the course is to do the tasks, no alternative ways to complete the course.
Failed (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.
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.
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