Industrial waste

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…

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Flooded basements are a prevalent problem among home owners in Canada. Every year millions of dollars is spent on repair, rehabilitation, and in efforts to cover for the personal losses caused by a wet basement. A wet basement, whether damp, leaky or flooded, requires immediate rectification of the leaks, and restoration. A basement flood might happen at any time or to any building, the major influencing factors here are heavy rains and snowmelts. Basement flooding need not necessarily be…

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…

population’s trash. landfills are not “dumps’'. A "dump" is when trash and waste are thrown illegally onto ground or waterway without following proper disposal or recycling regulations and procedures. These kind of "dumps" are completely illegal in the provence of Ontario.(1) What exactly is a landfill? A landfill isn’t Simply a mountain of trash buried in the ground. Landfills have to be carefully designed and monitored to prevent waste from mixing with groundwater and to reduce odors. Because…

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…

Some of the risks associated with burning municipal waste to produce electricity are: it will bring smoke into the air, and one incinerator factory costs 250 million dollars (Piper). Incinerators have benefits, they produce electricity, and they solve the waste management problem. They also have downsides, one of them is the costs for the incinerators, which is high, and that could cut into funding for other…