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Environmental Health Practitioner Manual: A resource manual for Environmental Health Practitioners working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities
Chapter 4 Rubbish storage, collection and disposal and environmental management
Page last updated: November 2010
- Table of contents
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Introduction
- 1 Sewage
- 2 Sewage disposal
- 3 Disease from sewage
- 4 Pit, bucket and chemical toilets
- 5 Flushing toilets
- 6 Plumbing
- 7 Unblocking pipes and fixtures
- 8 Methods of sewage treatment
- 9 The septic tank
- 10 Effluent disposal drains (leach and French drains)
- 11 Sewage lagoons
- 12 Communities without a sewage disposal system
- 1 What is a pest?
- 2 Pest control
- 3 Common pests
- 4 Environmental conditions which encourage pests
- 5 Pesticides
- 6 Other methods of pest control
- 7 Types of pesticides and how they enter animals and plants
- 8 Pesticide treatment program
- 9 Protective clothing and equipment (personal protective equipment)
- 10 Calculating and mixing the correct amount of chemical
- 11 Disposal of unused pesticide and empty pesticide containers
- 12 Decontamination and maintenance of pesticide application equipment
- 13 Safe storage of pesticides and spray equipment
- 14 Cleaning up a pesticide spill
- 15 Pesticides and fire
- 16 First aid procedures for pesticide poisoning