Solid Waste and Air Pollution

1.5 credits · Undergraduate

Urban sources of air pollution, acute and chronic health effects of pollution taught through case studies; environmental quality standards and compliance criteria in BC and Canada; air quality modelling for prediction, introduction to software; integrated waste management and design, reduce, reuse, recycle, resource recovery and utilization, composting, fundamentals of waste degradation and disposal, geo-environmental aspects of landfill design, leachate and gas management at landfills. * Indicates a 3-hour laboratory taken by students on alternate weeks.