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    mail and advertisement papers‚ cardboard boxes and packaging materials‚ and shredded paperwork can all be recycled as well. We don’t have unlimited space for landfills to continue throwing things away that could be recycled and reused. Landfills emit toxic waste‚ and can contaminate both the air and local ground water supplies. Landfills can also be a breeding ground for disease due to the population of pests and rodents that make their homes there. Where will we send our trash when we have no

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    amount of concentrated greenhouse gases‚ methane and polluted water‚ all of which are leading to the global warming that we highly concerned about. All the food wastes are currently disposed to landfills‚ however all the existing landfills will be saturated within 5 years. Construction of new landfill is a problem because of a lack of available space that is far away from residential areas. Therefore‚ seeking out alternative ways for food waste treatment has become an imperative for the government

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    waste material is on land‚ a process that can be observed in most countries and amounts to a high level of global municipal waste. Landfills are accepted as an appropriate means of disposal of waste material coupled with the practice of recycling solid waste. Whether enough effort is being invested in the most effective solutions for recycling waste material from landfills is an on-going question and pressure will continue to mount on how best to overcome long-term issue of reducing the volume of waste

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    Historical Research on Waste Management Sean Depkin Jones International University Abstract Waste management is a necessary industry and has been traced back to 3000 B.C. It originally started off garbage dumps or landfills and has progressed to recycling facilities and incinerators that produce both heat and energy from the burned waste. It has been influenced by both motorized transportation and the advances in technology. The most influential person in the waste management industry in the

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    HONG KONG BLUEPRINT FOR SUSTAINABLE USE OF RESOURCES 2013 – 2022 Environment Bureau May 2013 USE LESS‚ WASTE LESS Contents TITLE PAGE Preface .................................................................................................... 1 Summary ................................................................................................. 2 1 | Our Vision for Sustainable Use of Resources ........................................... 3 2 | Our Challenges & Opportunities .......

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    certain discourses that come with them. So having decided to do my rhetorical analysis on PepsiCo‚ I realized they are a big corporation with a lot of money that advertises a lot for its products. PepsiCo is a big part of this waste ending up in landfills. First I will introduce the PepsiCo website and go through it and analyze the different rhetorical devices used and what their end game is. Another thing is that I will also use different texts to use the different types of discourses about PepsiCo

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    PROPER WASTE DISPOSAL: IS IT REALLY OBSERVED AND PRACTICED? Clarence Hannah Tan Dalida JUBILEE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY Acknowledgements First of all‚ I would like to thank my wonderful parents whose support has inspired me greatly in making a willful choice in doing my best. I appreciate the skills that they have imparted to me to upon doing this research and their editing of my work has been of great help. Also‚ I would like to thank the library of Trinity College for being a good source of books which

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    the proposal is to “Use Less” and “Waste Less” of the earth’s resources‚ in particular regarding food waste to relieve burdens on landfills and preserve limited resources from being unnecessarily wasted. The target of the proposal is to reduce 40% on a per capita of the Municipal Solid Waste by 2022‚ starting from 2011using the 2011 year as the baseline. Q2. Landfills produce emit various amounts of greenhouse gases (GHGs). Methane for instance‚ is a GHG which actually has a higher warming potential

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    scrap pickup service in the city of Boston. They started in Jan 2011. The mission is to collect organic material from residents and commercial business and redistribute it to local farms for composting. They carry hundreds of pounds of scraps from landfills and redistribute to create valuable compost for organic and local food community. The compost is an all natural‚ no chemicals and safe fertilizer that can be used on crops. To date Bootstrap compost has 345 subscribers and move 140‚000 lb of compost

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    Once a year‚ with the routine of a Delaware Park‚ millions of people claiming to be my kin would storm my hometown. The family did not appear little by little‚ but as an actual overflowing of oddness‚ and often senility. The family’s elders‚ in their twenty-year-old gas guzzlers‚ circled the town like vultures‚ finally nesting at the middle of the pavilion. As the rusty doors squeaked open in protest‚ I could almost hear old school songs blasting deathlike through my mind. It was time for the

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