Sustainable approach for solid waste management: Lessons from other countries CAI QINGZHI Word Count: 2770 Similarity: 6% Introduction: Do you still hold the view that the solid waste problem seems normal in Hong Kong? Although the megalopolis seems to be well-ordered and tidy‚ the answer is actually no! Depending on TIME magazine (Krista Mahr‚ Oct. 26‚ 2010)‚ actually‚ Hong Kong generates more trash per capita than any other places in the world for the appalling figure of 921 kg of municipal
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Table of contents 1 Introduction 2 2 Background Information 2.1 The Series “Desperate Housewives” 3 2.2 The Opening Credits 4 3 The Paintings 3.1 Modification
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UNIT 203 Work in a Business Environment Knowledge & Understanding 1.1 Describe what is meant by diversity and why it should be valued. Diversity means different individuals valuing each other regardless of intellect‚ age‚ disability race or religion. Diversity should be respected and valued because everyone is different and can offer an alternative perspective. Everyone should be treated equally because everyone has something to offer and everyone has a strong factor/skill that they can
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plan: Definition of rubbish Meaning of value Consumer society Thompson theory Stevengraph paintings Recycling Conclusion Rubbish is something that has no value or been disvalued (Making Social Lives p.105). Rubbish is something that nobody want or need. It appears simple but the term value is in fact quite a complex term. Value means how useful something is. An item has a value because it is valued by people who use them. If an item is regarded to as rubbish it is mainly because
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I want you all to close you eyes. Imagine a blade. Now run your fingers across the blade. Are your fingers bleeding? Does it hurt? Now imagine your family holding you down. The blade creeping between your legs‚ you scream but no one cares. You beg your family‚ your mother‚ your father to help but then it happens. Now open your eyes. In Somalia alone‚ 98 percent of women experience Female Genital Mutilation at one stage in their lives. FGM is the destruction of women and girls sexual organs for non-medicinal
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environmentally unsustainable. Disposing and recycling of rubbish is now huge international business and although there is great economic value in this for the companies involved the need to find ways to sustain the environment is also a major factor in this process (Brown 2009). Transporting rubbish around the world where it is recycled more cheaply and remanufactured into a usable commodity to be shipped back‚ highlights the new value of some of our rubbish. Waste plastics‚ paper‚ card and glass are now just
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Case Literature July 30‚ 2011 EM 4008 : School Strategic Management GREGORIO CYRUS R.ELEJORDE FLORDELIZA C. NAVIDAD Professor Masterand Case Study l. Information Title of organization : Betlehem Day Care Center Foundation Incorporation (BDCCFI) Description: The Day Care Center is an outreach project of the Cebu Archdiocesan
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that they were concerned because it looks bad for the environment and they didn’t want any further harm to happen to wildlife because of our mistakes. From these results it was surprising to see that 12 percent of the people didn’t even see much rubbish. The results from this question were what I expected it to be but when this was compared to the question “Are you concerned about the amount of waste in our school?”‚ 18 percent of the people said no‚ but in this question‚ no-one said no and 19
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numbers seem no exaggeration‚ though how anyone counts them is beyond comprehension. There are so‚ so many. It may be the largest population of the dispossessed on our planet‚ each snatching at sleep when they can as they crowd and cram together in rubbish dumps‚ graveyards‚ on pavements‚ at the road’s edge‚ on traffic islands‚ under flyovers‚ anywhere a fly could land. Here the frail‚ the sick‚ the lame and the mentally ill rub shoulders with the barely fit; beggars and thieves sleep alongside sex
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The situation is getting worse in these years‚ as people have no improvement in their consumption style. They are not aware of their responsibility on reducing waste. Also‚ people cannot develop the routine on recycling‚ and send much unnecessary rubbish to the landfill. With the rare land resources in Hong Kong‚ we cannot offer any more land to extend or construct a new landfill. If we still do nothing and continue the trend‚ the problem on waste treatment will cause an enormous amount of cost for
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