Nuclear Waste Should be Disposed In one of his lectures “Nuclear Waste” Richard A. Muller‚ discussing the nuclear waste problem‚ scientists’ attempts to find the solution‚ and the public’s fear around it‚ gives the audience his personal evaluation. He makes a point that since the nuclear waste is here‚ we have to store it and storing at Yucca Mountain is not the worst option‚ because the dangers of storing it there is smaller than the dangers of not doing so. This lecture makes me recall the
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VARIOUS WASTES IN MANUFACTURING ORGANIZATION To get a world-class company it is fundamental to eliminate and avoid any waste (muda) in manufacturing and also service processes. Waste is any activity or process that adds cost but adds no value (for the customer). Up to 80% of the work that goes on in any organisation is adding no value to your customers Muda = waste (in its many forms) Muda (is a Japanese word meaning "futility; uselessness; idleness; superfluity; waste; wastage; wastefulness"
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what our grandmas always used to tell us: Do not waste food; think of all the hungry children in Africa. At my recent TEDx talk‚ I mentioned that global food waste could feed every starving child‚ man and woman on this planet – three times over in fact! Here is some food for thought: A global shame Globally‚ human beings produce enough food waste to feed 3 billion people: over 30% of the world’s food supply is wasted. The annual food waste in Italy could feed 44 million people – all of Ethiopia’s
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Automatic Room Light Controller [pic] INTRODUCTION This Project “Automatic Room Light Controller with Visitor Counter using Microcontroller” is a reliable circuit that takes over the task of controlling the room lights as well us counting number of persons/ visitors in the room very accurately. When somebody enters into the room then the counter is incremented by one and the light in the room will be switched ON and when any one leaves the room then the counter
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Operating rooms are creating a disproportionate amount of waste for the space they occupy in a hospital‚ accounting for 20-30% of all hospital waste (Kagoma et al. 1905 ). Imagine a bustling operating room: a patient is being operated on and there are surgical instruments laid out on a blue tarp-covered table. The surgeon asks a nurse for gauze and the ripping open of the package is heard‚ which is then thrown in the trash. Supply after supply is unveiled in their sterilized package‚ and one by one
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INTRODUCTION The waste produced in the course of health care activities carries a higher potential for infection and injury than any other type of waste. Therefore it is essential to have safe and reliable method for its handling. Inadequate or improper handling of biomedical waste may have serious public health consequences and a significant impact upon environment. Appropriate management of health care waste is thus a crucial component of environmental health protection and it should become an
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Waste Disposal Waste disposal has been one of human being’s biggest problems ever since the dawn of civilization. Humans create loads of waste every day ranging from empty bottles to excretions to banana peels. What to do with all the garbage that the people create has been the discussion of panels ever since the Roman senate got together. Most of the people are not aware of the fact that putting the garbage out of their trash cans can cause many safety and environmental problems. People tend to
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Turning biodegradable waste such as food scraps and yard trimmings into compost or recycling them through your local yard waste collection facility‚ eliminates a large portion of any household or business’s waste stream. However‚ the bulk of waste does not biodegrade quickly or ever. By thinking ahead‚ you can reduce your waste generation and reuse packaging rather than throwing it away. Consider Packaging When buying food or consumer goods‚ the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recommends you
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In daily life‚ there are many occasions where most people are in a hurry to do their work in time. On these situations‚ the environment expects a fast service to resolve a problem in a short time. In addition‚ this behavior could result in a real waste of time and effort. For example‚ sometimes when we go to a restaurant to have lunch‚ we expect a fast service‚ and we don’t like to wait. This expectation could finish in a bad quality of food. The same problem affect to all the services like banks
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SUBJECT : ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT TOPIC: BIOMEDICAL WASTE F.Y. B.M.S. INDEX |SR. NO. |TOPIC |pg. no. | |1 |An Overview of Biomedical Waste Management |3 | |2 |Biodegradable & Non-degradable Wastes
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