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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Journal of Research in Environmental Science and Toxicology Vol. 1(2) pp. 023-028 March 2012 Available online http://www.interesjournals.org/JREST Copyright ©2012 International Research Journals Full Length Research Paper Public health implication of improper hospital waste disposal in Zonkwa district of Zangon-kataf local government area‚ Kaduna state Vivan Ezra Lekwot¹*‚ Blamah Vachaku Nunyi¹‚ Ezemokwe Ifeanyi¹‚ Okafor Christian I² and Bawa Adamu³ ¹Department of geography and planning
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A concentration camp is where prisoners of war‚ enemy aliens‚ and political prisoners are detained and confined‚ typically under harsh conditions‚ or place or situation characterized by extremely harsh conditions. The first concentration camps were established in 1933 for confinement of opponents of the Nazi Party. The supposed opposition soon included all Jews‚ Gypsies‚ and certain other groups. By 1939 there were six camps: Dachau‚ Sachsenhausen‚ Buchenwald‚ Mauthausen‚ Flossenburg
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ENVIRONMENT -COPY OFNOTIFICATION Dated 24th September‚ 2008 Whereas the draft rules‚ namely‚ the Hazardous Material (Management‚ Handling and Transboundary Movement) Rules 2007 was published by the Government of India in the Ministry of Environment and Forest vide number S.O.1676(E)‚ dated 28th September‚ 2007 in the Gazette of India‚ Extraordinary of the same date inviting objection and suggestions from all persons likely to be affected thereby‚ before the expiry of the period of sixty days from
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Recovery & recycling of PET The EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive The European Union‚ with the adoption of its Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive‚ 94/62/EC as amended by 2004/12/EC‚ is legislating for more effective recovery of used packaging and for the reduction of the impact of packaging on the environment. a) More effective recovery Recovery of PET packaging falls under the requirements for recovery and is classed together with other plastic materials in the targets laid
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Solid Waste Management In India Environmental Sciences Essay In this report‚ some problems in solid waste management in India will be discussed as well as the efforts made by the government and the residents of India to help reduce the problems in managing the solid waste generated by the residents. India is known as one of the most populous countries in the world. It appears to be the second country to have the highest number of residents. With the total population of 1.2billions‚ the management
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development principles; (d) Ensure the proper segregation‚collection‚ transport‚ storage‚ treatment and disposal of solid waste through the formulation andadoption of the best environmental practice in ecological waste management excluding incineration; (e)Promote national research and development programs for improved solid waste management andresource conservation techniques‚ more effective institutional arrangement and indigenous and improved methods of waste reduction‚ collection
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PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS OF WASTE DISPOSAL IN PORT-HARCOURT METROPOLIS TABLE OF CONTENTS CERTIFICATION…………………………………………………….…i DEDICATION…………………………………………………………..ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENT……………………………………….……..iii TABLE OF CONTENTS……………………………………………….V LIST OF TABLES…………………………………………………….Vii ABSTRACT…………………………………………………………….ix CHAPTER ONE 1.1 BACKGROUND OF STUDY ……………………….….……..…1 1.2 STATEMENT OF RESEARCH PROBLEM…………………..…3 1.3 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY……………………..…..…….6 1.4 OBJECTIVE OF THE
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How to Manage Waste to Protect the Environment Name: Xiaoxia Zhuang ID: 12231711 Date: 04/09/13 Word: 1430 Tutor: David King Group: EAP-Standard 10 “Waste is material perceived to have little or no value by society’s producers or consumers.” (Rhyner‚ et al‚ 1995:1) The waste has many different kinds‚ for example solid waste‚ liquid waste and gaseous waste. Because of the mass of the waste of produce‚ the environment was destroyed more severe it. According to Rhyner‚ et
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CONTRIBUTION OF INTERNATIONAL TOURISM TO CLIMATE CHANGE Name Course Tutor Date Executive Summary This report is aimed at looking into the impacts of international tourism on climate change. The first section gives an overview of the report. The second section then looks at the contribution of international tourism on climate. The next section of the report addresses the impacts of the issues discussed in the previous section in the next decade on international tourism as well as addresses the environmental
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