Solid Waste Recycling

Help the interested and involved parties in understanding the full dimensions of solid waste recycling, its cycle, its levels that have to be addressed every time we conduct a study on Solid Waste Recycling, its relationship with the other services and utilities in the community and sample of the current and future projects.

 

Introduction to the Program
Definitions of Solid Waste Management (SWM)
Classification of SWM
Sources of Municipal Waste 
Special Wastes:
•    Home Appliances and Furniture
•    Construction and Demolition (C&D)
•    Sewage Sludge
•    Auto Waste (including Rubber Tiers)
•    Electronic Waste 
•    Dead Animals
•    Trees and other Garden Waste
Hazardous Household Wastes
Cycle of Municipal Solid Waste:
Generation:
•    Rate (Kg/P/D)
•    Composition
•    Density
•    Other Characteristics
Primary Storage:
•    Home
•    Gate
•    Street (Pooling Site)
Collection:
•    Ordinary (Regular)
•    Selective
•    Special
•    Waste Collection in the Architectural Designs 
•    Frequency
Street Cleaning (Sweeping)
•    Manual
•    Mechanical
Other Municipal Services:
•    Street Washing
•    Washing of Public Facilities
Transportation:
•    Routing / Time Estimation
•    Sort / Capacity / Mechanism 
Secondary Storage (Transfer Stations):
•    Necessity
•    Design
Treatment:
•    Shredding
•    Compaction
Disposal
•    Incineration
•    Recycling
•    Land filling
The Levels That Governs Solid Waste Management:
•    Technical
•    Financial
•    Social
•    Administrative
•    Legal
•    Institutional
•    Environmental
Problems that Facing Solid Waste Management:
(Following the same levels) 
Waste Reduction Techniques
•    Clean technology
•    Reuse
Recycle through:
•    Sorting of Waste
•    At Source (Western System / Egyptian System)
•    Informal Sorting (Street / Dumpsite Scavenging)
•    Zabbaleen System Sorting
•    Sorting at Sorting Centers / Composting Plants
•    Selective Waste Collection
•    Recycling Centers
•    Small and Micro Enterprises (SME)
•    Extended Producers Responsibilities 

Typical Waste Recycling Techniques for Some Waste Materials:
•    Organic Waste
•    Composting
-    Aerobic Waste Composting
-    Anaerobic Waste Composting
•    Construction Material Production
-    MDF / HDF and Other Alloys
•    Fuel
-    Bio-Gas
-    RDF (Constraints for RDF)
•    Fodder (Animal Food)
Plastic
•    Secondary Sorting (Unification of Polymers and Colors)
•    Cutting 
•    Washing and Rinsing 
•    Granulation / Agglomeration
•    Pelletizing
•    Recycling
-    Injection
-    Blow
-    Extrusion
Glass
•    Reuse (in the Original and Other Uses) 
•    Molding (as Part of the Daily Patch / as a Sole Raw Material)
•    Handicrafts (Stained Glass) 
•    Granulation
-    Aggregate for Water & Wastewater Treatment Plants 
-    Sand for Decoration and Paints
-    Tiles (Wall / Roof)

Field Visit:
•    Transfer station 
•    Composting Plant
•    Plastic or Metal Recycling Plant (Private)

Metals
•    Ferrous
-    Final Products (Casting)
-    Semi Final Products (Casting Ingots / Rolling)   
•     Non Ferrous
-    Casting 
Rubber
•    Reuse
-    Kindergartens
-    Protecting Boats and Platforms
•    Works from Waste Rubber
-    Protecting Automotive Body
-    Door Mates  
-    Flower Pots
-    Chair Bases
-    Slippers 
-    Gravel Containers
-    Elastic Strings
-    Rubber Fillers and Joints
-    Birds / Fish Breeding 
•    De-Vulcanization, Vulcanization and Remolding
•    Granulation:
-    Aggregate for Wastewater Treatment Plants
-    Powder for Runways and Soft Roads
Bones:
•    Handicrafts
•    Animal Fodder
•    Extract Fat / Gelatin 
•    Produce Activated Carbon
Dimensions and Relationships of SWM with Other Services and Utilities:
Marketing
•    Demand / Supply
Economy
•    Export / Import
Labor
•    Availability
•    Skills
Laws and Regulations
•    Environment
•    Labor
•    Standards of Industrial Products
Industry
•    Raw Materials (Quantity / Quality)
•    Production Techniques
Agriculture
•    Compost
•    Irrigation Facilities
Trade and Counter Trade
•    Waste / Pollution Transfer (Producer Responsibility)
•    Exchange of Resources

Businesses Relevant To SW Recycling:
•    Waste Exchange (Local)
•    Stock Market (Local / External)
•    Advanced Technology
•    Energy
Case Studies:
•    Cairo (The Zabbaleen – Sorting and Recycling)
•    Cairo (Helwan – Sorting of Household Waste at Source)
•    Sinai (Nweba'a – Sorting of Hotel Waste at Source)
•    Uganda – Kampala (Women in Waste Management – Sorting of Market Waste at Source)
•    China (Waste Vendors)
•    USA and European  (Sorting, Waste Exchange, Stock Market, Recycling and Land filling)
Trainees Participation:
•    Short Presentations to their Cases
•    Analysis to their Cases
•    Proposals
•    Conclusion and Recommendations

 

Municipality Managers, SWM Engineers and Practitioners, Community Leaders, SME Operators and Candidates, Waste Recycling Candidates Operators, Lending Banks and Funding Agencies, Fellows of Environmental Studies.