| | WasteAnd Waste Management | 01/10/13 | | | | | waste management | | In This Issue | According to the Basel Convention‚ "Wastes are materials that are not prime products (that is products produced for the market) for which the initial user has no further use in terms of his/her own purposes of production‚ transformation or consumption‚ and of which he/she wants to dispose. Wastes may be generated during the extraction of raw materials‚ the processing of raw materials into intermediate
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Improper Disposal of Waste By Frederick S. Blackmon‚ eHow Contributor According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention‚ improper waste disposal means that hazardous materials enter the environment and require removal‚ clean-up or neutralization according to federal‚ state or local law. This happens when people dispose of waste materials at unauthorized dumps and random locations. 1. Environmental Impact o The improper disposal of waste impacts the environment by polluting groundwater
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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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Food Waste? Too valuable to waste! According to statistics from the Environmental Protection Department‚ in Hong Kong‚ solid waste generated daily weighs around 17000 tones‚ of which around 30% is organic matter (2700 tones) which is roughly equal to 120 double-deck buses in size. Compared this to the US where‚ revealed by the Environmental Protection Agency‚ only 12% of waste stream was scrap of food in 2005. Extra care in disposal is required for these putrescible wastes‚ otherwise nuisance
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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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Current critical debate discusses contemporary poetry in terms of the Pound‚ Stevens or Williams’ era‚ forgetting T. S. Eliot‚ the poet who presided over the literary scenario for almost half a century. Eliot’s bookishness‚ political conservatism and religious leanings‚ together with the Modernist cultivation of an erudite‚ culturally charged idiom‚ have constituted a serious source of critical discontent. For the adepts of Marxist hermeneutics‚ his work came to represent “a privileged‚ closed‚ authoritative
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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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Globalisation on the World Today | | | Globalisation has long affected people’s life. Jeffery (2002) believes that the word “globalisation” has been known since the 1960s. Despite all the conveniences which globalisation brings to people’s life‚ it is also a fact that many people fear globalisation. They fear it because it evokes threats and they would feel safer by being closed into their own local world. Globalisation has its own negative and positive effects on the world today. It has opened
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Toyota Production System (TPS) and is one of the three types of waste (Muda‚ Mura‚ Muri) that it identifies. Mura signifies wastes due to unevenness and muri signifies wastes due to overburden. Waste as defined by Toyota’s president‚ Fujio Cho‚ is “anything other than the minimum amount of equipment‚ materials‚ parts and workers which are absolutely essential to production”. The seven types of wastes identified are 1. Overproduction – Waste due to producing before customer requires or more than needed
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The Waste Land‚ a 434-line modernist poem by T.S. Eliot revolves around a world of what seems to be chaotic and dead‚ and led by a single protagonist. Throughout The Waste Land‚ there are many uses of symbolism with tarot cards‚ astrology‚ and especially the game of chess: The game of chess is such a meaningful symbol throughout the story‚ that metaphors are used to describe the situation and emotions of the characters throughout the poem by describing them as chess pieces and in check-mate situations
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