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    disposal sites suffer from a higher level of gastro-intestinal disorders. Rationale: Modern societies generate large quantities of waste that have to be either dispersed‚ as with sewage discharged into rivers‚ or sequestered as with solid waste landfill sites. Inevitably some people have to stay in the vicinity of sites where concentrations of wastes build up‚ such as near solid waste disposal sites on the outskirts of cities these people may be at health risks‚ for instance‚ through some

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    Benefits of Recycling According to research‚ each person throws away 1 million pounds of trash each year in US. Let’s try to imagine how many tonnes of rubbish were produced on Earth each year; I believe we are clear that the result is terrible. Plastics‚ polystyrenes‚ water bottles‚ papers and glass are very useful‚ but excessive usage surge the number of rubbish dump. This had caused unsightly in environment‚ it is a kind of damage to Mother Earth. To solve this problem‚ everyone must take a part

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    Americans are consumed in materialism from keeping up with the latest fashion trends that are not long-lasting. Low quality clothing ultimately results in the landfill and Americans are trapped in this miserable cycle. Corporations take a toll on the environment with being the second most polluting industry next to oil. This industry demands companies to provide poor conditions and low wages for hardworking employees

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    Carbon Trading: Strategies employed by Google Inc. and Carbon Finance in Africa Group Members: Apoorv Agarwal Shreyendra Garg 09002033 09D02020 Manish Choudhary Shishir Gupta 09002019 09002015 Abstract The market for trading allowances relating to the right to emit carbon dioxide or the Emissions Trading Market has expanded dramatically in the last few years and promises to continue to do so in the near future. It has an extremely high profile as it is intrinsically linked to worldwide efforts

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    “Reverse logistics and environment empathy: reversing logistic chain and reducing e-waste‚ a qualitative analysis” ABSTRACT With rise of consumerism and rapidly changing technologies to cater to emerging needs of affluent consumers electrical and electronics industry has undergone several changes and innovation in terms of technology and hence product. Along with every technological up gradation‚ product obsolescence is also increasing at a fast pace aided by various subjective factors of individual

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    dry land. Flood occurs when the overflowing water submerges land and causes deluge. It is a cruel and violent expression of water. Catastrophic floods are the floods that are caused by some significant and unexpected events‚ for instance dam breakages. Heavy rainfalls are one of the major causes of floods. The level of water in rivers or lakes rises due to heavy rainfalls. When the level of water rises above the rive banks or dams‚ the water starts overflowing‚ which causes floods. The water

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    earnings. They assigned incorrect and inflated salvage value on their trucks while extending their useful lives to avoid depreciation expenses. Once landfills were filled with waste‚ they failed to record expenses for decreases in value. They gave random‚ unsupported salvage values to assets that previously had no salvage value. Unsuccessful and abandoned landfill development projects were not recorded as expenses or write-offs. Along with the top officers‚ the company’s longtime

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    waste (MSW) – all the material that people in a region no longer want because they are broken‚ spoiled‚ or have no further use. Municipal solid waste landfill – constructed above an impermeable clay layer that is lined with an impermeable membrane and includes mechanisms for dealing with liquid and gas materials Leachate – bottom layers of new landfills that trap contaminant-laden water. Incineration – the process of burning refuse in a controlled manner. Mass burn – technology that incineration

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    contemplated the philosophical: If there exists a thirty­three ounce jar of Nutella‚ do we really have free will? I experienced a harsh physics lesson while observing a shopper who had no evident familiarity of inertia’s workings. With a cart filled to overflowing‚ she made her way towards the sloped exit‚ continuing to push and push while steadily losing control until the cart escaped her and went crashing into a concrete column‚ 52” plasma screen TV and all. Purchasing the yuletide hickory smoked ham inevitably

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    Solid waste management is defined as the control of waste generation‚ storage‚ collection‚ transfer and transport‚ processing and disposal of solid wastes consistent with the best practices of public health‚ economics‚ financial‚ engineering‚ administrative‚ legal and environmental considerations. Solid waste is sewage other than hazardous waste. There are 8 categories of solid waste which are commercial waste‚ construction waste‚ domestic waste‚ industrial waste‚ institution waste‚ import waste

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