ChE 418
Industrial Waste Management and Control
MODULE 3
SOLID WASTE
MANAGEMENT
Engr. Neres Ann Repollo
2022
MODULE OUTLINE
1. Sources and types of solid waste
2. Key components of solid waste management
3. Disposal of Solid Waste
4. Materials Recovery and Recycling
5. Risk assessment
◼ refers to the range
of garbage
materials arising from animal
SOLID WASTE
and human activities that are
discarded as unwanted and
useless.
◼ Solid waste is generated from
◼ industrial,
◼ residential, and
◼ commercial activities in a given area,
and may be handled in a variety of ways.
SOLID WASTE CATEGORY
◼ Waste can be categorized based on material, such as plastic, paper, glass,
metal, and organic waste.
◼ Categorization may also be based on hazard potential, including radioactive,
flammable, infectious, toxic, or non-toxic wastes.
◼ Categories may also pertain to the origin of the waste, whether industrial,
domestic, commercial, institutional, or construction and demolition.
CAN YOU
IDENTIFY SOME
SOLID WASTE
THAT THIS
PLASTIC
MOULDING
PLANT IS
GENERATING?
CLASSIFICATION OF LANDFILLS
1. Sanitary,
2. Municipal,
3. Construction and Demolition
4. Industrial waste sites.
INDUSTRIAL WASTE SITE
MUNICIPAL LANDFILL
SANITARY LANDFILL
CONSTRUCTION & DEMOLITION LANDFILL
WHAT IS SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT?
◼ defined as the discipline associated with control of generation, storage,
collection, transport or transfer, processing and disposal of solid
waste materials in a way that best addresses the range of public health,
conservation, economic, aesthetic, engineering, and other environmental
considerations.
◼ Solid Waste Management includes:
◼ • Planning
◼ • Administrative
◼ • Financial
◼ • Engineering
◼ • Legal Functions
BEST PRACTICE IN SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT IN THE PHILIPPINES
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6 FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS OF THE WASTE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
Waste Generation
Onsite Handling, Storage
and Processing
Waste Collection
Waste Transfer and
Transport
Waste Processing and
Recovery
Disposal
SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT
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MATERIALS RECOVERY AND RECYCLING
◼ What Is a Materials
Recovery Facility (MRF)?
◼ a key component of
residential and commercial
single-stream recycling
programs.
◼ receives commingled
materials and uses a
combination of equipment and
manual labor to separate and
densify materials in
preparation for shipment
downstream to recyclers of
the particular recovered
GREEN WASTE MATERIAL RECOVERY FACILITY (MRF TOUR)
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RISK ASSESSMENT
◼the systematic process of evaluating the potential
risks which may be involved in a projected waste
management activity or undertaking
• An exposure is the bridge between
what is regarded as a hazard and what
in reality presents a risk.
STEPS INVOLVED IN RISK ASSESSMENT
• Assessing exposure involves evaluating
potential or actual pathways for and
extent of humans contact with toxic
chemicals.
• The frequency, duration, magnitude,
and route of exposure to any substance
Exposure
must be considered when collecting all Assessment
the •the
dataidentifying
required to construct complete
and •the integration of the results
characterizing of the source of exposure assessment with
exposure assessment.
of the potential risks (e.g., information on the individual
•the determination of the
• Steps for performing
chemicals exposure
managed in waste
exposure pathways and the
or group of individuals who
management unit) is/are potentially at risk (e.g.,
assessment include exposure routes from the body weights, location of the
• identifying potentially exposed • source to an individual.
Routes, Pathways, and
person, gender) and chemical
toxicity information
population (receptors); Estimation
• the pathways of exposure;
• the environmentalHazardmedia that Risk
transport Identification
the contaminant; Characterization
• the contaminant concentration at a
receptor point; and
• the receptor’s exposure time,
duration, and frequency
STEPS INVOLVED IN RISK ASSESSMENT
Exposure
•the identifying and
Assessment •the integration of the results
characterizing of the source of exposure assessment with
of the potential risks (e.g., information on the individual
chemicals managed in waste •the determination of the or group of individuals who
management unit) exposure pathways and the is/are potentially at risk (e.g.,
exposure routes from the body weights, location of the
source to an individual. person, gender) and chemical
• Routes, Pathways, and toxicity information
Estimation
Hazard Risk
Identification Characterization
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EXERCISE NO. 3
Do the following by group:
1. From the categories of solid wastes, Research on the methods
of its disposal.
2. Identify one (1) industry and make a risk assessment on their
solid wastes.
3. Prepare a PowerPoint presentation and be ready to present it
to class NEXT MEETING.
