Waste Management - for iPod/iPhone: Recent Episodes
The Open University
How much do you think about what you throw away? A waste management cycle is essential for a sustainable future. This album considers the policy and legislation that is driving waste management processes across the EU. By modelling the overall environmental impacts of solid waste disposal methods, the UK government has now created a hierarchy of waste and local management strategies. The 12 video tracks in this album offer an in depth look at each of these processes, concentrating on waste collection, recycling, composting, energy recovery and landfill. This material forms part of T308 Environmental Monitoring, Modelling and Control.
Transcript -- Cutting down the amount of waste we create per household is our biggest challenge.
How your recycling gets separated and processed. When to re-use packaging, opt for composting, or incinerate waste to produce energy.
Transcript -- How your recycling gets separated and processed. When to re-use packaging, opt for composting, or incinerate waste to produce energy.
Harnessing the power of your rubbish. The steam from incinerators fuel turbines that generate electricity.
Transcript -- Harnessing the power of your rubbish. The steam from incinerators fuel turbines that generate electricity.
The 6,000 landfill sites across Britain take about 80% of our household waste. A visit to a former landfill site, now a golf course.
Transcript -- The 6,000 landfill sites across Britain take about 80% of our household waste. A visit to a former landfill site, now a golf course.
Stage by stage in the design of a landfill site. Finding the right geology and hydro geology and assessing the pollution risk.
Transcript -- Stage by stage in the design of a landfill site. Finding the right geology and hydro geology and assessing the pollution risk.
Planning the infrastructure, the delivery of waste, the drainage of the site, and the monitoring facilities.
Transcript -- Planning the infrastructure, the delivery of waste, the drainage of the site, and the monitoring facilities.
At landfill site Judkins in Nuneaton they conduct daily checks , dispose of accumulated leachates and make use of the gas and water collected.
Transcript -- At landfill site Judkins in Nuneaton they conduct daily checks , dispose of accumulated leachates and make use of the gas and water collected.
How the site is safely sealed, monitored and redeveloped. How Grunden Waste redeveloped a site into a golf course.
Transcript -- How the site is safely sealed, monitored and redeveloped. How Grunden Waste redeveloped a site into a golf course.
The EU landfill directive is enforcing major change - reducing the volume of waste going to landfill and developing more incineration sites.
Transcript -- The EU landfill directive is enforcing major change - reducing the volume of waste going to landfill and developing more incineration sites.
Analyse what you throw away. The different methods local authorities use to collect and sort your rubbish.
Transcript -- Analyse what you throw away. The different methods local authorities use to collect and sort your rubbish.
How incineration generates electricity and hazardous waste is treated at landfill sites.
Transcript -- How incineration generates electricity and hazardous waste is treated at landfill sites.
The different types of green waste, how they are processed and who uses the compost created.
Transcript -- The different types of green waste, how they are processed and who uses the compost created.