Waste management

Is the environmental impact of lithium ion batteries worth the gain that we recieve from them as energy storage devices. This issue includes the impacts of mining, producing and dumping of the product which includes the mining of metals like nickel, cobalt and lithium. Batteries are often dumped in landfills and not recycled, recycling batteries can greatly reduce the environmental impact in most cases. The mining of lithium has a negative impact on the environment it is found in and so if there…

2014), a contributor to the intensification of these greater environmental issues is the methane produced by this waste and the “doodie” bags used by owners. Despite the creation of “eco-friendly” biodegradable bags, such as what Paul Canella has promoted on Poopbags.com, the $49.99 spent on 360 of these bags does not compare to the 1000 normal bags for only $14.89. (Erbentraut 2014)…

Craigslist and Freecycle. It does not cost anything to use these websites and you are doing your part to prevent landfills from getting too full. You also do not have to pay for waste removal as some cities charge to take away items that you no longer want. Other benefits of getting rid of your furniture is it prevents future waste of resources and helps people in the community grow closer by helping each other. You get to choose where your furniture goes…

household is not doing enough to reduce or reuse waste products. As a result, landfills are filling up with potential reusable waste. Due to lack of knowledge on how to compost food, food waste can make up nearly 20% of the municipal solid waste (MSW) at a landfill (Nadakavukaren, A., 2011). Greater community education and outreach is needed to help individuals, families and communities compost on a regular basis, and reduce the amount of food waste in our landfills. According to the US…

Everyone knows that recycling will eventually make the world a better place, so citizens in the United States try to use this to their advantage to create a better tomorrow for our world. Although, when one repurposes these materials, they do not take a moment to think about how those recycled items are then repurposed and reused by manufacturers and companies to make things we use and purchase, thus contributing to our economy, how many items end up buried in landfills, and if recycling cohorts…

filling our oceans with plastic, the land with toxic material that takes hundreds of years if not more to decompose. Much of what ends up in the ocean and landfills could be recycled and people are not being encouraged to recycle more of their household waste. But it is not the trash from our homes that finds its way to ocean and landfills, there is a huge amount that comes from shops, offices, factories and other businesses. Up until now businesses, schools and people have to have to sort all…

meal leftovers, vegetables and fruit waste, tea bags, stale bread and grains and everyday general refrigerator spoilage are an everyday occurrence in most households. In my experiment, I would be using “P-put to another use” concept of Scamper technique to create solution to a problem. Problem Statement It is estimated that about one half of all the food produced or consumed by United States is discarded and thrown into trash. My question is why we should waste all the food. About 26…

CHAPTER 1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY TARPS recycles tarpaulin waste into bags. The bags are made out of tarpaulin, making it thicker than an average plastic bag and cannot tear apart easily like a paper bag would. Tarpaulin in nature are water resistant therefore the bags will not be affected by wet products and it will not melt when exposed in the rain unlike paper bags. If food was spilt in the bag it would be easier to clean it off or if the shoes put into it are muddy, cleaning the bag would not be…

When I read this quote I thought about all the places that I have been, that have been overrun with people and how my mom and dad always tell me to put things like cool looking rocks or neat looking leaves or random things that I pick up, down when I ask if I can take this with me? They always says NO, because if everyone took what they thought was cool or neat or interesting out of the park or off the land then there would eventually be nothing left in that area. When my family and I are in…

Up until March of 2001 all of the trash from New York burrows was dispersed in one area. This resulted in 11 thousand tons of garbage a day creating a mountain of 180ft (about 18 stories high). That is now a large mountain where this podcast begins. This use to be the biggest dump, but now it is getting turned into a park, with restaurants and a golf course. Underneath it all, the garbage will all still be there. Fifty years of trash underneath all new development. The history contained in this…