Lecture 2 - Waste Characterisation

There are many different types of waste. Let's recall some of them! Can you match the pictures from the Introduction?

Data on waste is gathered by sorting waste. But why should anyone be willing to sort a pile of residual waste for several hours?

As you learned there is a lot of reason as to why one should sort waste. But how does one take a proper sample without influencing the result? And how is waste sorted? Which categories are there?

Along with the slides you can also take a look at a video made by the TU Dresden during their anual waste sorting experiment.

And look at the slides to consilidate the knowledge you acquired in the video.

Well, you have a mass balance and samples now but what about all those physical, chemical and biological properties which make it possible to compare and calculate with heterogenous waste fractions? Which ones do you need and which devices can be used to determine them?

This project “German MENA University Network for Waste Management and Circular Economy”, implemented by the University Rostock (UR), Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH) and University of Technology Dresden (TUD), Jordan University of Science and Technology (JUST), Constantine university 3 Algeria, Ain Shams University Egypt and Cadi Ayyad University Morocco is funded by the PREVENT Waste Alliance, an initiative of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). The contents of the Wastepedia course are the sole responsibility of German-MENA University Network and do not necessarily reflect the positions of all PREVENT Waste Alliance members or official policy positions of the governments involved. More information: https://prevent-waste.net/en/.

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