Introduction to Solid Waste Pollution Control and Improvement

Solid Waste Pollution Control is one of the main special courses offered to students whose major is Environmental Engineering. It aims to let students know basic knowledge and control technologies of solid waste pollution, so that they can solve problems on solid waste treatment and disposal. With increasing generation of solid waste (municipal solid waste and industrial solid waste) in China, solid waste control becomes one of the focus environmental problems facing our country, which depends on efforts of environmental professionals. Solid waste control technology has seen a fast development in recent years. In order to keep up with solid waste control nowadays, it is necessary to develop this course to improve teaching effects. Based on analysis of the current conditions of this course, the paper offers a construction plan for the course in the following aspects: adjustment of the course teaching content, enrichment of teaching methods and teaching mode, preparation of test database and exercise database and suggestion of ways to increasing teaching effect of this course.