November 19th, 2009 by admin
Everyday activities—down from the mundane to the complicated—play a major part in waste production. It is estimated that people produce 4.3 pounds of daily waste individually, and if taken together, they can account for the heaps and tons of produced waste materials each year around the world. In the United States alone, an estimate of [...]
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November 18th, 2009 by admin
By definition, solid waste is a waste material that is composed of less than 70% water. It can be anything from kitchen waste to electrical waste. A huge part of produced waste is made up of solid waste. In fact, according to statistics, each person produces around four pounds of solid waste everyday. This enormous [...]
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November 16th, 2009 by admin
In businesses, waste management is believed to be at the lowest part of the priority list, if at all it is a priority. But if you want your business to make an impact on the society and on the environment specifically, waste management should be part of your business priorities. In its own capacity, waste [...]
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November 12th, 2009 by admin
Burning or incineration had always been the old reliable in waste disposal since time immemorial. Today, we already have waste management systems and several methods of disposing wastes: landfills, incineration, minimization, composting, and recycling.
Each of these methods has its own good and bad points in terms of efficiency, cleanliness in relation to the environment, and [...]
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November 9th, 2009 by admin
Numbers will show you how much the world has gone to the dumps. An average American would have about .75 tons of trash every year, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Most of the world’s waste came from industrialized countries. These countries have waste management laws, especially for hazardous wastes, but still experience problems [...]
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November 7th, 2009 by admin
Archeological evidence said that humans had a way of managing their waste even before landfills and incinerators were developed. In many archeological sites, dumping pits were discovered where early people were believed to throw in their waste. In the course of history, waste regulations were enacted. This suggests that waste management is not a modern [...]
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November 2nd, 2009 by admin
Because incinerators are perilous to the environment and human health, and landfills are becoming scarce, expensive, and in the same way an environmental threat, different efforts in reducing the amount of waste are in place today. Such efforts include composting, a process by which organic waste is made into a soil resource. Organic waste, which [...]
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November 1st, 2009 by admin
Households contribute a lot to the volume of waste produced every year. Fact is a big percentage of this household waste should not have been sent to landfills and incinerators in the first place. The problem is that many people fail to manage household waste and unnecessarily throw things away only to buy something new. [...]
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October 30th, 2009 by admin
Today’s growing problem of waste had given way to many waste management systems. In industrialized countries, waste disposal via landfills is expensive and spaces for them are getting scarce. Incineration then becomes an attractive alternative.
Incineration
Incineration is a waste treatment technology that involves burning of waste materials. It converts them into bottom ash, flue gases, particulates, [...]
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October 29th, 2009 by admin
The numbers of electronic and electrical wastes being disposed are increasing every year. In the United States, the National Safety Council estimates that about 63 million computers were disposed in 2005 which is about 5.3 billion pounds of electronic wastes. Electronic wastes are mounting every year, which is why electronic and electrical waste management is [...]
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