Solid Waste Management
• Assessment Item 2 (4000 words)
Select one of the options from below for your assignment.
For the selected Region/Country/State/City in Assessment Item 1, prepare a municipal solid waste management strategy to overcome the current problems and issues and future challenges. The following key areas could be addressed in the strategy:
A) Establishing a strategic planning framework
• Understanding the existing strategic planning framework
• Defining the strategic vision
• Defining the boundaries or scope of the plan
• Defining key issues
• Setting objectives and targets
B) Identify and evaluate options for
• Institutional Framework
• Waste Collection and Recycling
• Waste Treatment and Disposal
• Financial Sustainability
• Public Awareness and Participation
C) Develop action plan
• Detailed evaluation of options
• Finalising the strategic plan
• Preparing the immediate action plan
Option 2 << pls select a topic from the list below for this assignment 2
Select a topic from the list below and undertake a literature review on the topic to write a research paper. Literature cited should include most recently published papers from journals as well as recent reports published by recognised institutions/organisations. If you prefer to write the paper on a topic not included in the list below, you are required obtain approval from the course convenor prior to commencing the work on the paper.
• Health and environmental impacts of poor waste management
• Collection, transfer and transport of municipal solid waste
• Separation and processing of municipal solid waste
• Recycling of municipal solid waste
• Biological treatment of municipal solid waste
• Managing green and organic waste
• Biogas generation from solid waste
• Incineration of municipal solid waste
• Energy recovery from municipal solid waste
• Sanitary landfills
• Rehabilitation of open waste dumps in developing countries
• Generation and management of landfill gas
• Generation and management of landfill leachate
• Waste and Climate change
• Waste management strategy development
• International strategies for municipal solid waste management
• Community based solid waste management
• 3Rs (Reduce, Reuse, Recycling)
• Role of partnerships in waste management
• Case studies of best practice solid waste management
The format of the paper is flexible. However, it should comply with the normal requirements of a paper published in a journal. The rationale behind this assessment item is to assess the student’s ability to research on a given topic in solid waste management, ability to cite latest literature and reports on latest developments in this area and to assess the ability to write a research paper to the standards normally required of a journal. Students are strongly encouraged to get familiar with such requirements by referring to paper published in an international scientific journal.
