Course DescriptionSolid Waste Management presents a huge challenge but also a huge opportunity for sustainable development. Waste can be used as a vehicle to bring significant and lasting improvements in the social, economic and environmental spheres of any community. The challenge it represents should not be underestimated, 3 billion people around the world live without basic waste management services and infrastructure, 60 million live on garbage dumps, 50 mega dumps exist, and upto 15-20% of Green House Gases have been associated with waste.
9 of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals, require the issue of waste to be addressed in order to be met. Waste is also key to delivering equity and sustainable justice as it is the poor and vulnerable who carry the majority of this burden in the emerging world and in the developed world. This course will inspire its students to see waste as an opportunity to succeed both within their communities, organisations, businesses and individually. It is taught by Simon Penney, PhD Cand at Queens University in Kingston ON, after working in industry world wide for over 20 years |
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