E-Waste‚ The Dark Side of Moore’s Law We should celebrate the great bounty Moore’s Law and the tech industry bestow on our lives. Costs fall‚ workers become more productive‚ innovations flourish‚ and we gorge at a buffet of digital entertainment that includes music‚ movies‚ and games. But there is a dark side to this faster and cheaper advancement. A PC has an expected lifetime of three to five years. A cell phone? Two years or less. Rapid obsolescence means the creation of ever-growing mountains
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from different calamities‚ hunger‚ malnutrition‚ sickness and other improper waste disposal. However‚ several are implementing the proper waste disposal management under RA. 9003 such DENR promoting some activities that will help to save the mother earth help not one but all of us to achieve the better life. Despite of those calamities some are not really concern regarding this matter. They are those who put their waste materials any where. If almost are disobeying the rules and regulation of RA
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comprises liquid waste discharged by domestic residences‚ commercial properties‚ industry‚ and/or agriculture and can encompass a wide range of potential contaminants and concentrations. In the most common usage‚ it refers to the municipal wastewater that contains a broad spectrum of contaminants resulting from the mixing of wastewaters from different sources. Sewage is correctly the subset of wastewater that is contaminated with feces or urine‚ but is often used to mean any waste water. "Sewage"
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State-wise Availability of Common Hazardous Waste Treatment‚ Storage & Disposal Facility (TSDF) S.No. 1. Name of the State/UT Andhra Pradesh Number of Common TSDFs in operation Total 02 TSDFs with Secured Landfill Facility and Common Incinerator Facility at following sites: (i) M/s Hyderabad Waste Management Project (Ramky Enviro Engineers Ltd) Survey no. 684/1‚ Dundigal village‚ Qutbullapur Mandal‚ R.R. Dist- 500 043 (A.P.) (ii) M/s Coastal Waste Management Project‚ Jawaharlal Nehru Pharma
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FOOD WASTE Fresh vegetables‚ ready-to-cook meals‚ and cheap meat is what a modern consumer’s supposed grocery list comprises of! Dump it all into your fridge full of deals‚ discount offers and feel happy. This is how the shop keeper gets a loyal customer. At the end o the story‚ it’s the food industry’s creed that the customer is always right….. If food became it s own pungent country‚ it would be the world’s third biggest contributor to climatic changes. According to United Nations Food and Agriculture
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Eliminating the 8 Wastes | Waste within a process is a systemic flaw. Waste is using resources – be it labor‚ materials‚ or equipment – over and above what is required to produce the service or product defined by our customers. Ultimately‚ if our customer/client does not need or would not pay for it‚ it is waste. It is of no value to the customer/client. Recognizing waste leads to identifying
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any waste compounds introduced into such waterways will initiate biochemical reactions (such as shown above). Those biochemical reactions create what is measured in the laboratory as the Biochemical oxygen demand (BOD). Such chemicals are also liable to be broken down using strong oxidizing agents and these chemical reactions create what is measured in the laboratory as the Chemical oxygen demand (COD). Both the BOD and COD tests are a measure of the relative oxygen-depletion effect of a waste contaminant
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E-WASTE IN INDIA RESEARCH UNIT (LARRDIS) RAJYA SABHA SECRETARIAT NEW DELHI JUNE‚ 2011 CONTENTS Page Nos. Preface Chapter 1— Introduction 1.1 Introduction 1.2 What is e-waste 1.2.1 Composition of e-waste 1.2.2 E-waste generation in India 1.3 Electronic waste in the global context 1.4 Growth of electrical and electronic industry in India 1.4.1 A brief history 1.4.2 Computer & computer components segment 1.4.3 The consumer electronics (television) segment 1.4.4 The telecommunications segment
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Clean Up Of Chemical Waste Chemical spills are major problems that haunt the environment. Strict government regulation are trying help this problem‚ but governmental leaders face many challenges. Disposal of harmful chemicals is often difficult and costly. Since chemical waste has destroyed the environment‚ steps are being taken to prevent further pollution‚ Like the Yucca mountain project. A local based pharmaceutical company named Novo Nordisk released its 1999 environmental report. The company
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The goal for our lab activity was to make a silver mirror by reducing silver ions with dextrose. The materials that we used were acetone‚ 5 mL of 1.5 M ammonium nitrate solution (NH4NO3)‚ 5 mL of 0.5 silver nitrate solution (AgNO3)‚ 10 mL of 5% dextrose solution (C6H12O6)‚ 10mL of 10% sodium hydroxide solution (NaOH)‚ a 50 mL beaker‚ a 250 mL Florence flask with a rubber stopper‚ a 10 mL graduated cylinder‚ a waste beaker‚ and distilled water. The first thing we did was rinsed the beaker‚ cylinder
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