Waste management

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…

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…

to recycle, but then we do not know what to do with this stuff. By making use of waste materials, the manufactures of these new building materials are creating exciting new markets and completing a loop,” says Kate Warner (Shulman). Recycling is a practice familiar to mankind since 400 B.C, though the word itself can trace its origin back to 1922 in regards to industrial processes and in 1960 for the reuse of waste material. Recycling has been a common practice in the efforts to help the economy…

We put out so much waste that we have to have a garbage treatment complexes over 6,000 acres in size. Humans put out so much garbage that we are having to find and make bigger landfills. If we could see the garbage we get rid of in our landfills we would get rid of it differently. In the United States we have temporary solutions to getting rid of our garbage. Although, in other countries such as China, which is the worst country with garbage problems. China’s garbage problem is so bad that they…

The 2010 documentary “Bag It” criticizes the production and implementation of “needless” plastics in the modern age. Jeb Berrier takes the viewer around the world, following plastic waste from stores and homes to it’s final destination in growing landfills and open ocean waters. He strives for consumers to partake less in buying or using products with excessive plastics like toy containers, milk caps, and what he states as the worst offender, the plastic bag. Iɴᴛʀᴏᴅᴜᴄᴛɪᴏɴ This analysis will…

the light reflection of material surface and has been used to separate glass of different colours. The colorless glass and colored glass contained in the waste glass should be separated according to various colors. Electric separation is a method using different electrical properties of components in high voltage electric field to separate wastes. This technology is mainly used in developed countries, but rare in underdeveloped or developing countries. Electrostatic separation technology depends…

Rhetorical Analysis: More Green from Your Green Building One thing most people can agree on is that we as a planet need to improve our sustainability and hopefully save money in doing so. People often think about carbon dioxide omissions or melting ice caps but one of the most useful ways to improve is by focusing on the buildings in which we live! While having a code to keep us safe is helpful for people, having a green construction code can help the Earth. Benefits apply to almost everyone…

DISADVANTAGES The main disadvantage of having a detached garage is when you really use it for parking your vehicles and you have to get to them or get out of them during inclement weather. You have to walk your way through the heat or cold, depending on the season, from your house into the garage or vice versa. If you are using your garage as an additional storage place, this also means that the items you kept are farther away from you when you need them. It would also be a bit inconvenient…

the score, one fast look at the pictogram will be enough to have a general information about the environmental impact of a procedure. However, the drawbacks of this method are non-consideration of the amount of chemicals used in the analysis and the waste generated (qualitative rather than quantitative analysis) and the obtained information is general. In addition, the search of each chemical used in the procedure in official lists is inconvenient and time wasting [155 - 157]. An improvement to…

Recently, the New York Times published an article that left people both stunned and amused and unlike some of their articles it dealt with...trash. Apparently, more than one hundred and eleven million dollars have been spent and invested in the recycling industry. Now why would someone spend one hundred and eleven million dollars on the recycling industry one may ask, the answer is simple... economy benefits. Recycling can lower capital cost, make us use 80 to 90 percent less energy, lower our…