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Waste management is the key to maintaining a clean and green earth. With environmentalists repeatedly stressing on the negative impacts of the greenhouse effect and that of a depleting ozone layer it is time that we as inhabitants of this planet do our bit to protect it. Our first priority should be to reduce the amount of colossal waste we generate on a daily basis. In addition to reducing waste generation, correct management through eco-friendly techniques is a must if we want to preserve nature.
Waste management includes collection, recovery, treatment and recycling of waste materials and safe disposal of harmful materials. Rather than just dumping your garbage at any site, calling upon an authorized waste management service to collect your waste would go a long way in saving the environment. These services provide the best solution to preserving Mother Nature and her bounty. They do so by categorizing the waste material and treating it so that it can be recycled rather than disposing it. Recyclable waste materials include paper, cardboards, plastic, metal and wood materials, computer and mobile parts and even fluorescent tubes. This way much of the waste would get recycled than just being disposed thereby preserving the raw materials used to manufacture them for our future generations.
In addition, these services will also ensure that hazardous chemicals are rendered safe through correct treatments before disposing.
A number of such waste management services exist in the UK as is revealed through a quick online search. Some of them are the Severnside Waste Management Services, Neales Waste Management Ltd., Utopia Waste Management Ltd. and Network Waste Solutions. Among these, the Network Waste Solutions is a leader in that it typically recycles 90% of the waste collected. This service ensures safe removal of almost all the usual waste generated in households and businesses including asbestos, refrigerators, electrical appliances, tyres and food wastes. Environment-friendly techniques are used to treat and recycle such waste products. By helping you through proper waste collection, treatment, recycling and disposal this service helps you greatly in saving landfill tax. Moreover, it also guarantees prompt and timely collection of waste that is done within even a day.
Thus, such services could be considered as the answer to the urgent prayers of Mother Earth for protecting herself. Through correct waste collection, treatment, recovery and disposal, these services contribute much towards maintaining a clean and green earth.
There are several benefits of solid waste management and using it can control vermin that otherwise can spread harmful diseases. One can eliminate habitats for rodents as well as insects by disposing residential and commercial waste. These rodents and insects can create health risks, and wastes are the generator of these insects. One of the most alluring benefits of waste management is that it excludes the requirements of burying or burning the waste that can cause health risks to those living nearby to the area. Solid is considered as the perfect means to recycle the waste and convert it into some useful material.
Industrial waste management is another popular method in which all kinds of wastes are eliminated so as to reduce public health risks be it a solid waste or liquid waste. It is also necessary so as to keep the nearby environment pollution free and safe for the inhabitants. One can notice several toxic waste dumps in the industrial area where industrial waste is neglected or is not followed properly. The inhabitants in these areas can face serious health threats such as asthma.
One of the most unfortunate facts is that most of the successful industries neglect the need of proper industrial. You can feel threatened by knowing that these negligent industries never care for the regulations made for industrial waste management and are still earning huge profits. We all are equally responsible for our nearby areas and we must complaint the local authorities in case we find some waste in our surrounding area. Recycling the waste has become essential in the present times when environmental pollution is continuously on rise. Household as well as industrial waste is causing threat to our precious ecosystem and so we must initiate waste management. There are websites which give the latest news related to the recycling waste industry and its services.
Waste is a material which is carelessly thrown away as it is no longer considered useful and it has served its purpose. Waste is a matter that occupies space, produces smell, has weight. But we must not forget the use of animal waste to produce Bio Gas, bagasse being used to make paper (a substitute for paper making from wood) or being fermented to produce alcohol for energy source (a substitute for Coal and Petroleum). Many scientists believe that if we do not learn to use our resources carefully and reduce waste, we will not be able to survive.
There is a close connection between waste, pollution and the damage to the environment which is cause of many serious diseases. Hence there is an urgent need for management of waste. According to wikipedia.com waste management is the collection, transport, processing, recycling or disposal, and monitoring of waste materials. The term usually relates to materials produced by human activity, and is generally undertaken to reduce their effect on health, the environment or aesthetics. Waste if not properly disposed off can lead to very serious and long lasting implications.
Solid wastes are dumped (open dumping) outside the village and city or burnt. In both the cases the result is pollution, scenic beauty of the place is lost, foul smell due to decomposition of biodegradable substances and degradation of soil quality due to non biodegradable substances. Biomedical waste the most hazardous waste due to presence of pathogens is thrown at outskirt of the city.
E-waste (electronic parts like batteries, computer parts, and unused mobile phones), effluents of industries (with loads of poisonous chemicals and hot water) and poisonous gases from industries, automobiles exhausts, etc are the major threats to mankind.
One of the easiest ways to manage waste is 3-R system- Reduction, Reuse and Recycle. Prevention is better than cure. So we should reduce our use of resources, we can reuse the materials for several times and we can also recover the materials from old articles by recycling.
The major activities under waste management programme are:
1 Waste prevention
2 Waste segregation(biodegradable and non-biodegradable)
3 Recycling
4 Combustion
5 Sanitary landfill
6 Treatment of effluent before discharge
7 Treatment of gaseous waste from chimneys and furnaces from industries.
The role of every individual in waste management is of great importance. It is because if every individual contributes substantially the effect will be visible not only at the community, city, state, national level but also at the global level. Applications:
1 Using carry bags made of paper or cloth instead of polythene
2 Using eco-friendly products e.g. CNG in place of petrol and diesel
3 Using CFC free refrigerator
4 Saving electricity because electricity saved is electricity generated
5 Using rechargeable batteries to reduce metal waste generation
6 Planting more trees to reduce carbon dioxide in atmosphere
7 Having two bins for biodegradable and non-biodegradable waste.
“Waste is misplaced wealth”. So we should not “Waste waste.”
Reduce Reuse Recycle.
Save the planet. Keep it clean.