This PwC Report documents the key proceedings during the seminar It is for internal usage of iNDEXTb and other Government of Gujarat agencies and departments only. July 2012 Detailed Report: Integrated Waste Management– Emerging Trends‚ Challenges and Way Forward Seminar on Integrated Waste Management: Challenges and Way Forward Table of Contents 1. Summary and Way Forward ...................................................................................................................
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Waste-to-energy Taking Care of Garbage Michelle Rowland Buena Vista University Waste-to-energy Taking Care of Garbage We all have to share this world with its limited resources. We must take advantage of all resources we have‚ regardless if they came from the earth‚ are man made‚ or are waste products. The average person in America throws away 3.7 pounds of garbage every day (Resource Recovery Public Works‚ 2009). It is no surprise that this leads to landfills that are filling faster
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“Unused Medical Waste and The Environmental Impact” U.S. hospitals generate more than two million tons of medical waste each year. Meanwhile‚ more than ten million children under age of five die in the developing countries due to the lacking enough medical care according to Health Care Without Harm. Also medical waste is a main source of dioxin‚ mercury‚ and the other pollutants that can be dangerous for human health and the environment. It is important to learn about activities of non-profit organizations
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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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empathy‚ because they can’t imagine that there are some people even don’t have a light or water to use. What is worse‚ lots of youth seem to have been accustomed to such behavior and never feel guilty. So frugality should be pass down‚ people should not waste water. Save the world‚ save yourself. Today‚ environment problem is one of the major issues in China. So the value of frugality is reflected so importantly. No country in history has emerged as a major industrial power without creating a legacy
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WASTE MANAGEMENT ASSESSMENT 1 Management of municipal solid waste (MSW) or otherwise known as trash or garbage is an ongoing environmental and economic issue not only in the Unites States but also around the world especially in a developing country like the Philippines. The need for a community assessment that aims at assessing the current problems related to the way trash is managed in Pateros‚ the smallest
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Waste Disposal The massive amount of waste generated every day is a hallmark of affluent‚ modern society. According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)‚ municipal solid waste--a combination of household and commercial refuse--amounts to about 180 million metric tons per year in the United States. That equals almost two-thirds of a ton of garbage for each individual every year. It represents nearly twice as much waste per capita as Europe or Japan‚ and five to ten times as much as most
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Water waste management is the field of handling waste water to make it suitable to either be recycled into a water system or to be disposed of in an environmentally-conscious manner. This is one of the larger problems facing most major cities in the modern world‚ with overflow causing severe pollution problems and increasing population densities stretching existing infrastructure to the breaking point. Both mechanical and biological processes are used to manage wastewater to get rid of undesirable
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As humanity develops new technology‚ the magnitude and severity of waste increases. When computers were developed‚ it widely was believed that the need for paper would be eliminated. On the contrary this was widely proven false and we are now utilizing more paper than ever. Canada is not an exception as the typical Canadian generates an average of three pounds of solid waste each day1. This alone shows what a careless species we have become- using and disposing materials without even considering
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TITLE: WASTE MANAGEMENT & RECYCLING IN AUSTRALIA Abstract The following is a law research paper work on Waste managing issues in Australia. The research paper concentrates on a former Australian Government owned Company located in New South Wales (Waste & Recycling Processing Corporation); which is currently been taken over by a private Company SITA Environmental Solutions which provides its services for the waste management and recycling of waste to Australian
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