profit they need to reduce cost of making the product thus many of them using cheap cost raw material that are usually bring harm to environment for example most of paper companies use chlorine to bleach the pulp because it cheaper and the chlorine waste was discharged to the river and lake causing death to all living organism and pollute the river. Moreover‚ agriculture industries also the main reason why the river and lake nowadays are polluted because the farmer using a lot of chemical and harmful
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Electronic waste in Guiyu‚ China Introduction of the town: Guiyu is a town located in the Guangdong Province of southeast China. . The population consists of 200‚000 local residents and 200‚000 migrant workers living in the town. The town’s economy purely relied on agriculture before the late 80s. But after that‚ Guiyu has highly involved in e-waste recycling business. Not only myriads of farmers have abandoned agriculture and joined the recycling‚ but also migrant workers in other provinces
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The disposal of nuclear waste is quickly becoming the most important issue facing the environmental community today. Nearly twenty percent of our nation’s electricity is being supplied by approximately 100 nuclear power plants that are operating in the United States. Currently‚ most of the nuclear waste created by these power plants is being housed temporarily in storage facilities and although the total amount of nuclear waste produced in one year is small‚ the need to find a permanent method
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In the Film Food Waste John Oliver describes the epidemic of Americans wasting immense amounts of perfectly consumable food. Oliver makes many claims and resolutions about this problem throughout this film. He also talks about how wasting food is second nature to Americans and most don’t know how much they’re wasting. The first key claim made is according to the (Natural Resources Defense Council)‚” as much as 40% of all the food produced in the United States never gets eaten.” This means so much
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Solid Waste Management In Tanauan City A Thesis Submitted to Ms. Patricia Abrihan in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the National Service Training Program in Lyceum of the Philippines-Laguna By: Garcia‚ Kenneth Laurena‚ Charlynne Macahiya‚ Christian Tesoro‚ Dustin Villanueva‚ Mark Villaroman‚ Hubert March 2013 Abstract Waste is anything which is considered to be no longer useful to anyone. In reality‚ it actually possesses the ability to be the raw material
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world‚ different kinds of waste were produced continuously. In the early years‚ the common wastes produced were biodegradable. There are no major problems with this since it will decompose over time. As the number of population increases and new inventions were made‚ the kind of waste produced by humans also increases. Some of these wastes include plastics‚ glass‚ metal‚ papers and many more. Some of waste scattered in the surroundings are recyclable. But due to improper waste management‚ these are not
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want to spend a lot to change the current environment. Tarter and Karan grew up near a polluted river‚ and they often played in it when they were young. Many big industries near major waterways became superfund sites. For example‚ a big industrial waste dump‚ which is near the Saginaw Bay‚ became a superfund site in mid-1980s. Therefore‚ it could be confirmed that there are connections between cancer and environment. Steingraber implied that people were not exposed to the risk of getting cancer
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solid waste is disposed of by land filling processes . Recycling and resource recovery is a great way to reduce garbage but inevitably there will be solid waste that has to be dealt with. There are two possible solution; landfills and incineration. However‚ after researching and analyzing of both solutions‚ I believe that incineration has the ability to provide more advantages while protecting our environment and is the better choice when the solid waste has to be burned. Solid waste incineration
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BEHAVIOR ON SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT: A CASE OF KATHMANDU METROPOLITAN CITY Abstract This paper tries to show the household behavior of Kathmandu residents towards solid waste management. The paper is the outcome of a primary survey of 432 households covering different parts of the city of Kathmandu. The daily per capita waste generation in Kathmandu is 0.29 kg and is lower in the core zone than in the outer and middle zones. This indicates that as there is more open space to throw the waste people usually
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CHAPTER I BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Solid waste disposal is both an urban and rural problem. Person is a potential generation of waste and thus a contribution to this problem. to generate is one thing‚ the type of waste generated is another and now also the way of generated waste is to manage or dispose of it’s quite different issue. Solid waste is any material which comes from domestic and industrial sources from human activities which has no value to people who possess it and
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