This course aims to provide students with up-to-date knowledge regarding ever-growing and intricate problems of managing and processing waste due to urban development. It covers issues concerning economic, legislative and regulatory development involved in the management of solid waste and technology, including solid waste classification, characterisation and generation, waste treatment facilities, resource recovery and recycling, waste collection and disposal.  Students will be able to design an integrated waste management system for source reduction and disposal by combining the available options. Life-cycle assessment (LCA) in making engineering decisions of municipal solid waste treatment and resource circulation will be discussed.