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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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    WASTE MANAGEMENT WASTE WASTE • any material “thrown away” • regarded as useless and unwanted (at a certain time and place) KINDS OF WASTE Solid wastes domestic‚ commercial and industrial wastes especially common as co-disposal of wastes Examples: plastics‚ styrofoam containers‚ bottles‚ cans‚ papers‚ scrap iron‚ and other trash Liquid Wastes : wastes in liquid form Examples: domestic washings‚ chemicals‚ oils‚ wastewater from ponds‚ manufacturing industries and other sources CLASSIFICATION

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    Electronic Waste The mishandling of electronic waste also referred to as E-Waste‚ has lasting environment and social impacts on underdeveloped and struggling countries that become dumping grounds for unwanted and nonworking electrical and electronic components and devices. Many of the electronic-waste recycling facilities are located in South and East Asia. E-waste is a source of electronic parts and valuable metals for reuse. This industry is only profitable in Asia‚ because laborers work for

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    10 Waste Management Coordinating Lead Authors: Jean Bogner (USA) Lead Authors: Mohammed Abdelrafie Ahmed (Sudan)‚ Cristobal Diaz (Cuba)‚ Andre Faaij (The Netherlands)‚ Qingxian Gao (China)‚ Seiji Hashimoto (Japan)‚ Katarina Mareckova (Slovakia)‚ Riitta Pipatti (Finland)‚ Tianzhu Zhang (China) Contributing Authors: Luis Diaz (USA)‚ Peter Kjeldsen (Denmark)‚ Suvi Monni (Finland) Review Editors: Robert Gregory (UK)‚ R.T.M. Sutamihardja (Indonesia) This chapter should be cited as:

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    Don’t Be Haste to E-Waste Electronic-waste (e-waste) has emerged as a critical global environmental health issue in both developed and developing nations. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) refers to e-waste as "electronic products that are discarded by consumers." More specifically‚ e-waste is a generic term that encompasses various forms of electrical and electronic equipment that may be old‚ might have reached end-of-life and most importantly cease to be of any value to their present owners

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    A MID SEMESTER REPORT ON AN OVERVIEW OF WASTE MANAGEMENT BY PANDIT HARSH 2010A4PS176U AT Lucy Switchgear FZE Dubai‚ UAE A Practice School – II station of BITS PILANI‚ DUBAI CAMPUS Dubai International Academic City‚ Dubai UAE (AUGUST 2013– JANUARY 2014) A MID SEMESTER REPORT ON An overview of waste management BY Pandit Harsh 2010A4PS176U Mechanical engineering Prepared in Partial Fulfillment of the Practice School

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    Waste Management Assignment Ayden Blundell Task 1 a) Define Waste Waste is unwanted products from industrial‚ rural and domestic areas. Australians are one of the most wasteful people in the world. Waste management includes the collection‚ transport‚ processing of materials‚ which can be solid or liquid’s. b) Waste creation in the Hydrosphere Water pollution occurs when a body of water is poorly affected due to the addition of large amounts of materials to water. The sources of water

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    Pollution‚ contamination of Earth’s environment with materials that interfere with human health‚ the quality of life‚ or the natural functioning of ecosystems (living organisms and their physical surroundings). Although some environmental pollution is a result of natural causes such as volcanic eruptions‚ most is caused by human activities. Sidebars | SIDEBAR | Climate Change 2001:The Scientific Basis | The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is an international group of scientists

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    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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