The Solid Waste Management Toolkit for Developing Countries - Online Learning Modules
EPA developed a series of online interactive learning modules to complement the Toolkit. The modules allow users to explore specific topics related to waste management in a user-friendly platform.
Key Features:
- Designed to be mobile-friendly and usable with lower bandwidth
- Includes links to case studies and specific chapters within the PDF guide
- Intended to support learning at your own pace
Select and launch a module from the list below. Modules are available in multiple languages which can be found beneath each module heading.
Module 1: Solid Waste Management Governance
This module introduces users to key concepts related to solid waste management. These concepts are relevant to each of the topic-specific modules in this series.
Module 2: Stakeholder Engagement
This module introduces users to the topic of stakeholder engagement, the process of building relationships with residents, interest groups, and other impacted entities.
Module 3: Waste Characterization
This module introduces users to the topic of waste characterization. Understanding the waste stream helps with prevention, collection, recycling, and disposal.
Module 4: Prevention and Minimization
This module introduces users to the topic of waste prevention and minimization. Reducing and reusing waste has environmental, public health, and economic benefits.
Module 5: Separation, Collection, and Transportation
This module introduces users to the best practices associated with effective separation, collection, and transportation of waste, critical components of an integrated solid waste management system.
Module 6: Organic Waste Management
This module introduces users to the benefits of diverting organic waste from disposal sites, potential treatment options, and best practices associated with managing it.
Module 7: Recycling
This module introduces users to the benefits of recycling and best practices associated with successful recycling programs.
Module 8: Disposal
This module introduces users to the topic of managing solid waste disposal sites, including open dumpsites and sanitary landfills.
Module 9: Energy Recovery
This module introduces users to the topic of energy recovery, or waste to energy, as a solid waste management strategy, and factors to consider before implementation.