Integrated
Solid Waste & E-waste
Management

A workshop about developing solid waste strategies in developing countries.

A Workshop Presented by:
Prof. Ernest Yanful
University of Western Ontario
Ontario Canada

Day 1
- Sources of solid, waste generation, global waste statistics: North America, Europe, Asia and Africa
- Waste management practices and technologies, source separation, collection, recycling, reducing and reusing
- Composting and bioconversion; energy from waste, advantages and disadvantages of waste management options
Day 2
- Landfilling of municipal solid waste:
  - Dumps versus engineered landfills,
  - Design considerations for engineered landfills
  - Hydrogeology and hydrology
  - Climatic factors
  - Leachate: formation, characteristics and treatment
  - Landfill design and contaminant transport modeling
Day 3
- Landfill construction, operation and management
  - Landfill approval process
  - Landfill guidelines: Europe, North America, Asia, Africa
  - Landfill gas management
  - Landfill construction and performance monitoring
- Landfill design examples
  - Introduction to software
  - Design calculations
Day 4
- E-Waste characteristics and management
  - Constituents of electrical and electronic devices
  - Life cycle of electrical and electronic devices
  - Types and composition of e-waste
  - Global e-waste inventory and statistics
  - Environmental and health threats of e-waste
  - E-waste management: redesign, reuse, recycle
  - E-waste policy and legislation: Basel Convention Towards Green Electronics

Scope & Outline

This workshop/training will look at global waste (municipal, solid and electronic waste or e-waste) generation and statistics with emphasis on the situation in Africa, the Region and Uganda. Actual cases and conceptual framework for efficient collection and environmentally friendly recycling and final disposal will be discussed along with existing unhealthy yet economically sustainable activities, such as scavenging, at many dumps in developing countries. Significant time will be devoted to the design of modern, engineered landfills and the upgrading of existing dumps to modern landfills. A field trip to at least one dump site for first hand observation will be included in the training. The training will also look at the composition of ewaste and the potential environmental and health effects of crude handling and processing methods, such as the red-hot kilns or acid baths used to dissolve metals from digital detritus and the resulting toxic fumes from melting plastic. Global policy on the e-waste management and legislation from a number of jurisdictions will also be discussed.

For registration details contact :
James Bulenzibuto
Kyambogo University, Kampala, Uganda.
Tel: 256-700611214 or 71205523
E-mail: bulenzibutoj@gmail.com

Joram Patrick Mugisha
UIRI, Nakawa Industrial Area
P.O. Box 7086, Kampala, Uganda
Tel: +254 414286 124/ Cell: +254 782 540893
E-mail: pharmchem82@yahoo.com

Integrated Solid Waste & E-waste Management

Integrated
Solid Waste & E-waste
Management