Information and tips on waste management
The numbers are increasing. The United Nations Development Programme estimates that there are five million people who die each year because of diseases related to inappropriate waste disposal. It is the developed countries who are generating more wastes. About .75 tons of trash is being produced annually by an individual in the United States, that [...]
There is the white-collar sector, and then there is also the blue-collar. With the growing concern over the environment, there rose another sector: the green-collar industry. An official definition of green-collar is yet to be established, but the various definitions formed by different organizations and individuals share a common explanation, that green-collar jobs are those [...]
Tags: dustbins, garbage, global warming, green building, green-collar jobs, industry, recycling, transportation, waste, waste disposalHealth care wastes are among the most important waste management programs that state or city government should pay attention to. Health care wastes or HCW are objects both sharp and non-sharp, body parts, chemicals, drugs, medical devices and radioactive materials that health care institution dispose. In the United States about 7000 tons of waste everyday [...]
Tags: devices, fluorescent lamps, hazardous waste, HCW, Health care, infectious disease, recycling, United States, waste disposal, waste materialsWaste management and disposal issues are not just problem of a certain country or a continent. It is a global issue which should be addressed immediately. Countries and governments are expressing concern over problems with their waste disposal. According to the United Nations, there are about 60% of countries worldwide expressed their concern about disposing [...]
Tags: air pollution, Asia, climate change, continent, developing countries, Europe, greenhouse gases, Incineration, United States, waste disposalToday’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 [...]
In today’s complicated world where everything is connected (from manufacturing to consumption to disposal), waste management takes on several disposal methods (landfills, incineration, recycling, pyrolysis, etc.) because there is as yet no ideal disposal system. One of these processes is composting. Composting Composting happens in nature all the time. These days, composting takes on a [...]
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