recycling is a good thing because if you take your trash to a landfill it’ll just sit there for years. But if you recycle your cans and things like that you can just reuse them. But I also think recycling is bad because you don’t know where the can came from and you don’t know where it’s been sitting‚ or how long it’s been sitting there. One detail in the paragraph says "The goal is to reduce the amount of waste we add to the county landfill by 90% over the next five years." I think that is a great
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many articles that are casually thrown away in the United States. In most parts of the United States‚ the vast majority of all municipal waste is buried in sanitary landfills. Although these facilities are an advance over the older‚ open dumps in which garbage fires smoldered incessantly and rats and other vermin thrived‚ landfills can leak toxic contaminants into underlying groundwater aquifers. They also release methane‚ which is both
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Can effectively recycled. Then they started banning the dumping of yard waste and opened up a progam. The three bins; A green one for compost‚ a blue one for recyclabe papers and plastics‚ and a black one for landfill‚ are a great idea because it will help us cut down on landfill and
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After the dream of a model city was crushed‚ in 1920 the canal was turned into a municipal and industrial chemical dump. The concept of landfills‚ which are sites for the disposal of waste materials by burial is environmentally acceptable. However‚ landfills must be properly sited‚ and regulated‚ because in some situations they could cause disasters like that of Love Canal. Therefore‚ The Love Canal portrays the perfect example of hot to not run
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FC501-3T T0006256 Module Code: FC501-3T Group: Group A Module Title: Skills for Study 1 Assessment Title: Final Essay Assignment Title: Discuss the problems associated with disposing of large amounts of waste and identify effective ways of reducing the waste societies produce. Student ID Number: T0006256 Student Name: Son Ngoc Le Date of Submission: 29-11-2012 Word count: 785 words 1 FC501-3T T0006256 Waste disposal is an important topic and discussion in the society because it
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Land pollution‚ in other words‚ means degradation or destruction of earth’s surface and soil‚ directly or indirectly as a result of human activities. Anthropogenic activities are conducted citing development‚ and the same affects the land drastically‚ we witness land pollution; by drastic we are referring to any activity that lessens the quality and/or productivity of the land as an ideal place for agriculture‚ forestation‚ construction etc. The degradation of land that could be used constructively
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than reusing the old. But despite this there has been a 100% increase in the past decade . But there is still work to be done. Recycling is an activity that is worth taking the time to do. It saves the forest and reduces the amount of trash in landfills around the world. It also helps to “…reduce the harmful waste we discard into the environment” . All and all it helps everyone everywhere for the better. The traditional way of disposing trash takes up a lot of space and resources that many communities
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A study of municipal solid waste management system adopted by various municipalities Presented to: Prof. Dr. Dev Raj Adhikari Faculty of Management Tribhuvan University‚ Kirtipur Prepared by: DamodarNiraula Laxman Raj Kandel Kishore Dhungana Nischal Thapa YogendraAdhikari Master of Philosophy in Management August‚ 2013 Tribhuvan University Kirtipur‚ Kathmandu Table of Contents INTRODUCTION Background Waste is a resource that is unutilized
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states that‚ creating aluminum from bauxite needs 95 percent more strength than recycling it. Almost every substance uses fewer strength while it is recycled than using pure substances (n.d.). Furthermore‚ the landfills are generally at the out of town. While transporting garbage to landfill spaces‚ there are used more energy. Another argument in recycling is the claim that recycling is losing money yet‚ it is cheaper than producing new products. It has been asserted that recycling is not a profitable
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