Waste management

Environmental Pollution Pollution is the one of the biggest problem in the earth. Pollution means environmental bad effects which are harmful and dangerous for human life. It has changed our environment for past couple years, and it’s getting worse and worse. One big cause of pollution is that humans don’t care enough about our environment. There are many categories of pollution like water pollution, land pollution, and air pollution. On the other hand people don’t know four other big…

Renting a dumpster is a great way to have excess trash and debris hauled off for you if you're planning to do some home renovations. Most people are not aware of just how much waste is produced from remodeling even a small area of your home. The trash you accumulate will end up being much more than what your regular dumpster can hold. You could take the excess trash to the landfill, but it could take several trips, and you risk damaging the paint inside your truck from sharp objects. There are…

debris in this area is from human use, disposal, littering, dumping, etc. Most of the plastic actually comes from land and not ships, as some might assume. In fact, only about twenty percent of oceanic waste comes from ships. The main sources are manufacturing products, management of trash, and improper waste disposal (EPA, 2011). Through air and sea currents, any plastic item can become litter and eventually end up in the patch region. Plastic bags, often found in stores of every kind, are…

According to Waste Management, the average American will throw away nearly 600 times their body weight in their lifetime. Furthermore, less than 22% of this waste is recycled. I am here to advocate the importance of recycling, especially in our own community. People of all ages need to make the extra effort to recycle for a multitude of reasons. Recycling helps save the environment, conserves resources, reduces landfill space and saves money. Recycle Across America states that recycling is the…

Nutrient Factory is a small retail store selling various healthy, high protein foods and drinks. Our supplier for these products will be primarily Costco and Sam’s Club and we will price our products at a 30% mark up. We will keep the products will have at a high mark up price for our first couple of months in business before we reduce our prices to appeal more to college students. We will be open every day except Sunday from 7:00 AM to 9:00 PM; we open at 7:00 AM to target the early morning…

Food waste is becoming a huge problem in developed countries. The U.S. National Resource Defense Council found that 150 billion dollars’ worth of food is wasted as it ends up rotting in American landfills, and produces methane which is a powerful chemical compound that is 20 times more damaging than green house gas. Canada is also one of the leading food waste countries as the Value Chain Management International estimates that Canadians waste more than 31 billion dollars of edible food each…

program in my apartment complex. After researching this project, I have come to find that it is not as expensive as one might think. Typically, the waste removal company already in place is able to also pick up…

This is because whenever people do not recycle they are throwing their waste on the side of the road near trees and stud. Which is many animals home such as deer. These animals can get caught up in plastics and items that we as humans should be recycling so that the animals in nature have a longer lifespan. It states in…

2. What types of things could you do to limit your waste stream? List ten. "If it can’t be reduced, reused, repaired, rebuilt, refurbished, refinished, resold, recycled or composted, then it should be restricted, redesigned or removed from production." (Pete Seeger) This quote is right to the point of if products should be made or not. Recycling is a huge problem in the world today there are so many problems with landfills and technology being thrown out or shipped out of the country illegally.…

The Food Waste In America wasting food has a very big impact on the environment. Also, the wasted food has to go somewhere and thee water waste is increasing each year. We ually waste more than half of the produce we get from the store. It takes a lot of water to grow gardens and produce. It has become a bad habit in america to waste food and not think twice about it. Like in schools, restaurants and households they all waste so much food each year. To begin, every time you waste food you…