Waste

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.…

by reducing clinical waste \cite{springer}. According to the Congressional budget office 30 percent of United States spending is wasteful or not necessary \cite{consumer}. There are two types of waste: operational, and clinical. Operation waste results from duplication of services or inefficient production processes. An example would be a duplicate medical service because of lost medical records or the same service already being provided by another caregiver. Clinical waste is created by the…

Food waste has been a crucial problem around the world, especially in the United States. It’s one of those problems that we don’t tend to pay attention to but continues to affect us. People all around the world at some time in their life throw food away, based on the amount they have and the expiration of the food. There are people in the world that struggle each day for a meal, but instead they have to starve or dig in trash cans to look for dinner. I remember when I was younger, my mother…

it is certainly not easy. My university fees are more than the cost of my entire family’s yearly expenses, and I have two more siblings in line to get enrolled into a college, which is like a financial nightmare for us. In the article “College is a Waste of Time and Money,” the author argues along the same lines that college “may be a good place for those few young people who are really drawn to academic work, who would rather read than eat, but it has become too expensive in money, time, and…

everything from all kinds of waste whether generated during the extraction of raw materials or after the consumption of final products. It is present everywhere, even in the middle of the oceans. Trash Inc: The Secret Life of Garbage is a documentary film showing the waste produced around the world and the life cycle of trash/garbage. The documentary explains what happens to the garbage when it’s thrown away and its impact on the people and the world. It shows how the waste management industry…

chemicals from pollution of companies’ factories. Factories being built for production efforts to fulfill the market. The factories create waste, but they do not use any efficient way to dispose of the waste. The companies decide on cutting cost of developing to ways to safely dispose of the waste. The factories use cheap easy ways to dispose of waste through dumping waste in the rivers and streams. The effects of not taking control of pollution leads to people getting sick. There are some…

There are many ways people could use this waste for other things Americans could use. In America we make up 30% of the worlds garbage. Even though America only makes up 5% of the world we produce 30% of the world’s garbage. In 2012 34.5% of the us discarded materials were recycled, but now out of all the materials discarded by the us only 21.4% is recycled. Many people just throw there materials away. This is a waste of materials. With all this waste there could be many things recycled, and…

exemplified by the sheer magnitude of production, as well as by the difficulty in determining the origins of plastic waste. The magnitude of plastic production is shown through the increase of global plastic resin production by 620% from 1975 to 2012 (Jambeck et al. 2015). Furthermore, in 58% of countries with available data, it was found that at least ten per cent of solid waste material was comprised of plastic pollution (Jambeck et al. 2015).…

mainly the atmosphere detrimentally. The article states that, “ The poorest people in the world had virtually nothing to do with causing global warming…” This textually evidence explains how the climate change is negatively changing weather. Toxic waste sites are placed in rural areas where the poorest people live. The population is thrown into the atmosphere affecting the poorest peoples environment. The article also states, “ That argument has fed a rising sensation of out rage among the…

Here we have an example of potential food waste due to natural products going bad relatively quickly. Food waste is critical. Many third world, and developing countries have a shortage of food. One of the arguments that arose is should we consider using GMO’s to help develop and modify our world hunger? If we consider to use these GMO’s more often than regular, we believe it will silence the argument of feeding the hungry and help the nations in need. Food waste is food that goes…