Project

Environmental Sanitation and Waste Management in Developing Countries

Code
13V76710
Duration
26 April 2010 → 31 December 2010
Funding
Federal funding: various
Research disciplines
  • Natural sciences
    • Ecology
    • Environmental science and management
    • Other environmental sciences
Keywords
selective collection for recycling waste management waste treatment
 
Project description

During the short training initiative the participants will be familiarised wit all the avaible techniques for waste treatment and will be given detailed information about some particular techniques, whether or not combined with energy production, which allow recycling of parts of the waste. Attention will also be paid to the inappropriate storage of obsolete pesticides, the transboundary movement of hazardous waste and the uncontrolled dismantling of old ships and E-waste.