schools for model making and for book making. The surface is stiff and reliable. • Plastics -Plastics are manufactured through a process known as polymerization. Polymerization occurs when monomers join together and form long chains‚ known as polymers. Thermoplastics and Thermosetting Plastics are the two different types of plastics. Additives can be added to both thermoplastics and thermosetting plastics to change the qualities. Stabilizers prevent moisture or UV light from affecting the
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PSYC 434: ENVIRONMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY WASTE DISPOSAL WITH SPECIFIC REFERENCE TO SOLID WASTE Adeniji Ayodele (10317112) 9TH March‚ 2013. With an increase in industrial development
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Current plastic bag use and disposal‚ both by consumers and through waste management activities‚ not only create environmental problems‚ but also reinforce the perception of a wasteful society. Plastic bags as litter create a visual pollution problem‚ and affect our aquatic wildlife. Many of the grocery store use the plastic bags as a tool to keep the things easy to carrying. Plastic bags aren’t just at the grocery store‚ there every where‚ landfills‚ the oceans and lakes‚ hanging on trees around
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“Basura” is discarded food wastes or any other unwanted or useless material. It is also called as garbage. Garbage makes places untidy and even smelly. It ruins the surroundings when it’s just placed somewhere. Fortunately‚ we have our garbage man to collect it. Some people may benefit from “basura”‚ but some may not. The well-offs do not benefit from these things. They do not want these trashes. Actually‚ garbage or “basura” is from them. That’s why they throw it; because it’s dirty. It makes
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WASTE GENERATION ‘Waste’ is a very general word‚ used to include anything that is no longer needed for use and is thrown away uncared. It has created and added a new problem to the environmental pollution. Pollution also creates serious problems for human health. There is remarkable growth in energy generation‚ fertilizers‚ pesticides‚ chemicals‚ production of coal etc. All these and much more is expected to increase in the years to come. For this‚ we need to understand different sources of
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Introduction As the population rise here in our country‚ the accumulation of waste is also becoming a problem which is more difficult for the management to find a best solution. One of the issues is a rise in either biodegradable or non-biodegradable waste materials. The most common method for disposing waste material is on land‚ a process that can be observed in most countries and amounts to a high level of global municipal waste. Landfills are accepted as an appropriate means
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“Paper or plastic?” is the age-old question when you reach the end of your grocery-shopping trip. Have you ever wondered which is more environmentally safe? Paper and plastic in comparison have many pros and cons. They both effect our environment and animals positively and negatively. Their similar and contrasting qualities have a great impact on our earth. Plastic comes from oil‚ a hole is drilled and a pipe is inserted into the earth. Oil is forced by the earth’s pressure up the pipe‚ into a
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Solid Waste Management Made Easy A Do-It-Yourself Guide to a Community-Based Ecological Solid Waste Management Programme The publication of this handbook is part of the CommunityBased Ecological Solid Waste Management Programme of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR)‚ with funding assistance from the Government of Japan. The Programme is implemented through the National Solid Waste Management Commission (NSWMC)‚ and supported
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successful Community-Based Solid Waste Management (CBSWM) program. Collection strategy Barangay Holy Spirit’s CBSWM consists of segregation‚ recycling and mechanical composting. Households segregate their waste to “dinabubulok” (non-biodegradable) and “nabubulok” (biodegradable). The ‘No Segregation‚ No Collection’ policy is practiced in the community. Every dump truck is accompanied by an officer from the Barangay Security and Development Office (BSDO) to facilitate implementation of this policy. Eight
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as food but they may also contain lot of toxic items like plastic which is harmful for their health. Solution- One apt solution I would suggest is that we must have Compost Pits for our biodegradable wastes like vegetable peels‚ animal waste etc. in our locality‚ households‚ schools and dustbins checked regularly for non biodegradable waste like plastics‚ rubber. even we must take the initiative of awaring others that plastics like plastic bags must be reused. Composting is a biological process
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