M.SC.

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE

PAPER III

SOIL POLLUTION AND SOLID WASTE

MANAGEMENT

School of Distance Education

Bharathiar University,
Coimbatore - 641 047
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UNIT I

LESSON - 1 Nature of the Soil 1

LESSON - 2 Air And Water In The Soil 30
LESSON - 3 Acid, Base and ion Exchange in the Soil 40
LESSON - 4 Soil Macro and Micronutrients 55
LESSON - 5 Soil Erosion 78

UNIT II

LESSON - 6 Soil Pollution 97

LESSON - 7 Agricultural Chemicals 105
LESSON - 8 Fertilizers and Pesticides 114
LESSON - 9 Insecticides, Fungicides and Herbicides 129
LESSON - 10 Metals And Trace Elements 136

UNIT III

LESSON - 11 Hazardous Wastes Compounds, Formulations

and Classes of Substances, Chemical
Classification of Hazardous Wastes 145
LESSON - 12 Industrial Hazardous Waste and
Hospital Hazardous Waste 159
LESSON - 13 Hazardous Waste Management 178
LESSON - 14 Treatment Technologies for Specific Waste Types 194
LESSON - 15 Hazardous Wastes in Landfill 205
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UNIT IV

LESSON - 16 Municipal Solid Wastes, its Quantities and

Characteristics 221
LESSON - 17 Municipal Solid Waste Collections and Transport 241
LESSON - 18 Waste Processing, Resource Recovery and
Recycling 254
LESSON - 19 Solid Wastes – Incineration, Pyrolysis, Composting,
Vermicomposting and Sanitary Landfills 271
LESSON - 20 Anaerobic Digestion 302

UNIT V

LESSON - 21 The Hazardous Wastes (Management and

Handling) Rules, 1989 313
LESSON - 22 The Hazardous Wastes (Management and
Handling Rules, 1989) - Issues of Special Concern 330
LESSON - 23 Imported Hazardous Wastes 366
LESSON - 24 The Bio-Medical Waste (Management and
Handling) Rules, 1998 402
 PAPER III - SOIL POLLUTION AND SOLID WASTE
MANAGEMENT

SYLLABUS
UNIT I
Nature of the soil - water and air in the soil - acid, base and ion exchange
in the soil macro and micro nutrients in the soil- soil erosion.

UNIT II
Soil pollution - agricultural chemicals, ferti1izers, pesticides, insecticides,
fungicides, herbicides and metals.

UNIT III
Hazardous wastes compounds, formulations and classes of substances,
chemical classification of hazardous waste, industrial and hospital hazardous
waste, hazardous waste management, segregation and recovery of hazardous
waste components. Treatment process for unseggregated waste, fixation of
hazardous solid waste prior to disposal, hazardous waste in land fill.

UNIT IV
Municipal solid wastes - quantities and characteristics, waste collection
and transports, waste processing and resources recovery and recycling,
incineration, pyrolysis, composting - vermicomposting and sanitary land fills
and anaerobic digestion.

UNIT V
Hazardous waste (Management and Handling) Rules 1989 - the
Manufacture Storage and Import of Hazardous Chemicals Rules 1989 -
Biomedical Waste (Management and Handling) Rules 1998 - Plastic Act 1999.

REFERENCE
1. The text Book of Soil Science - Dhaji
2. The nature and properties of soil - Harry 0 Buckman
3. Soil Physics -Helmut Kohuke
4. Environmental Engineering - Peavy et al
5. Soil Pollution and Soil Organisms - PC Mishra
6. Environmental Agricultural Pollution - P.R.Trivedi
7. Soil Chemistry and its Application - Malcom Cresser
8. Basic Environmental Technology - Nathensan
9. Environmental Chemistry - Stanly Manahan
10. Pollution Control Legislation Vol. 1 & 11- Tamilnadu Pollution control
Board.
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