The 7 Tips are:
1. Understand terminology and legislation, which is currently evolving in this area.
2. Choose the most appropriate methods for waste management, with social / economic / ecological justification.
3. Use life cycle assessment principles as a basis for environmental auditing, to calculate an “index of merit” for waste management options.
4. Choose appropriate methods of recycling for products and components not commonly recycled. e.g. using non-melt processing methods.
5. Outline the likely changes to material’s properties from different recycling methods.
6. Confidently discuss and identify requirements with suppliers, customers and workplace colleagues.
7. Demonstrate the ability to think laterally and solve new problems in this subject area, through the theory and case studies taught and mini-projects.
These 7 tips are echoed for their general applicability and are taken from the proposed 1 week course "Materials Sustainability and The Environment - A Materials for Industry Short Course" to be held at Loughborough University, 16 th to 20 th February 2009 .
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