Waste Containment and Remediation Technology

This page is a course overview for Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) course 1.34, Waste Containment and Remediation Technology.  Selected lecture notes, assignments and their solutions, and exams are provided.  Topics covered in the course include: introduction to and definition of hazardous waste; containment transport; characterization and remediation of contaminated sites; and geo-chemistry.  The production and distribution of this resource is part of MIT OpenCourseWare, an initiative of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to put all of the educational materials from its undergraduate and graduate-level courses online and make them freely accessible.