Hazardous waste

“Treat the Earth well. It was not given to you by your parents. It was loaned to you by your children.” A quote by Kenyan Proverb that makes one think deeply about the future, of ours, and of our children. Many of our peers do not think deeply about this aspect, they only do if the facts are directly presented to them. Littering causes many negative affects on people, our community, and the economy. There are many possible solutions for this issue but, we decided to go for a simple, yet helpful…

If you have ever had to deal with standing water in your parking lot, you could be wondering if there is anything that you can do to help prevent it. If you hire a team of asphalt paving experts, they should be able to help with this in multiple ways. These are a few steps that they can take that can help you avoid having this problem in the future. Creating a Slope First of all, having an adequate slope in your parking lot is very important. If your parking lot is not sloped, then water will…

Sitting on kid-sized benches during Open House for the Henrietta Storm Water Basin Improvement Project and with our backs to the bright morning sun, John Dettle, P.E. and Engineering Manager for the City of Torrance, answered my questions about the Machado Lake Trash TMDL project. "You start with the regulations", he said. (J. Dettle, November 7, 2015). The US Environmental Protection Agency declared Machado Lake impaired in 1998 and 2002, and in 2008 the State Water Resources Control Board…

is committed to maintaining our excellent reputation and conducting our mission in a manner that will protect and minimize impact to human health, natural resources and the environment. Our goal is to sustain mission capability while integrating excellent environmental practices, improvements, and compliance to laws and regulations applicable to our mission. This goal extends throughout the 169th Fighter Wing and the tenant units assigned to McEntire JNGB. Protecting the environment at…

One problem with Anderson are the streets and roads. Every time it rains the roads flood. The roads flood can cause your vehicle engines to lock up. Therefore, causing it to break down and it can cause crashes. Another, problem with Anderson is the community. The drains get covered with trash and debris causing the roads to flood. On top of that, it makes the community unsafe for the children. Do with the trash and the lack of an unsafe environment. Lately, the city has been getting water…

If I could set up an exhibit for my neighborhood museum, the exhibit would show how litter can affect many lives in a really bad way. The exhibit would be of how litter can affect multiple lives, because it will help expand the knowledge of the youth for the animals, and how the litter also affects them just as much as anyone else if not even more. This exhibit will help enrich the learning of the community and its visitors, because this will show them how much litter actually hurts the animals…

pounds of waste are produced in America alone. Unfortunately, only one-third of that waste is recycled. That means over 133 million pounds of garbage is left with nowhere to go but a landfill. If you think that's bad, think about how many landfills there are to put all that waste in. Currently there are 3,091 active landfills and 10,000 defunct landfills just in the United States. We can protect Earth from further harm by doing something as simple as recycling. One way to reduce the waste thrown…

Disposal of solid waste is a major environmental problem in America at present due to the large increase in its population, and it will be become more of an issue in the future if Americans do not deal with the problem. Waste disposal involves a system that manages waste from its origin to its final disposal. The forms of waste management include incineration/burning, burial at landfill sites or discharge at sea/lake/river, and recycling. According to Michael Armbrister’s article “Solid Waste…

entire earth is hurt by the pollution let out by the stacks upon stacks of garbage. There is a way to reduce the piles of used garbage bags full of rotten food, though; composting. A school of two-hundred students produces three-thousand pounds of waste from their cafeteria each year, over half of which can be recycled, greatly reducing how much garbage goes into landfills. Composting should be required in schools. It costs very little, can give students a great learning opportunity, and helps…

municipal solid waste (MSW) and are not properly disposing of said waste; for example: one will waste an aluminum can rather than recycling the can, or one will throw away leftover pizza rather than composting the pizza. As the amount of MSW increases, the amount of waste than can be recycled also increases; however, only 34.3% of waste is recycled…