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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Waste Disposal The massive amount of waste generated every day is a hallmark of affluent‚ modern society. According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)‚ municipal solid waste--a combination of household and commercial refuse--amounts to about 180 million metric tons per year in the United States. That equals almost two-thirds of a ton of garbage for each individual every year. It represents nearly twice as much waste per capita as Europe or Japan‚ and five to ten times as much as most
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Waste and Energy Paper ENV / 100 October 28‚ 2013 Pamela Primrose Waste and Energy Paper Environmental Science is a way to obtain agricultural knowledge of how things are going on around the world and the effect it has on the environment. In this document you will obtain a brief explanation of nuclear waste‚ plastic‚ coal and oil. What are the alternatives of other energy resources‚ advantages and disadvantages that would contribute to stabilize the environment currently around the the
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Waste Management 23 (2003) 61–88 www.elsevier.com/locate/wasman Management of municipal solid waste incineration residues T. Sabbasa‚ A. Polettinib‚*‚ R. Pomib‚ T. Astrupc‚ O. Hjelmard‚ P. Mostbauera‚ G. Cappaie‚ G. Magelf‚ S. Salhofera‚ C. Speiserg‚ S. Heuss-Assbichlerf‚ R. Kleinh‚ P. Lechnera (members of the pHOENIX working group on Management of MSWI Residues) BOKU University Vienna‚ Department of Waste Management-Nussdorfer La¨nde 29-31‚ A-1190‚ Vienna‚ Austria University of Rome ‘‘La Sapienza’’
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CASE STUDY Okay...are you ready for a CASE STUDY about GARBAGE?!? See the below case study and answer the questions at the end of this case. SMELLING SWEET SUCCESS AT WASTE MANAGEMENT By Martha Rogers‚ Ph.D. Not long ago‚ it appeared that refuse giant Waste Management was headed for the recycle bin. Accounting troubles forced the company to pay shareholders $220 million in 1998 because of overstated earnings. In 1999‚ shareholders sued after learning executives sold shares prior to an
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HAZARDOUS WASTE Signs/Symbols Toxic Waste Biohazard Warning Outline Definition Sources Disposal/Control Outline Definition Sources Disposal/Control What Is Hazardous Waste? Hazardous substance Quantity Concentration Characteristics (physical‚ chemical‚ infectious) increase in mortality Increase in irreversible or incapacitating reversible illness Pose substantial present or potential hazard to human health and the environment What Is Hazardous
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Elimination of muda Muda is a traditional general Japanese term for activity that is wasteful and doesn’t add value or is unproductive or not useful in practice or others. It is also a key concept in the Toyota Production System (TPS) and is one of the three types of waste (Muda‚ Mura‚ Muri) that it identifies. Mura signifies wastes due to unevenness and muri signifies wastes due to overburden. Waste as defined by Toyota’s president‚ Fujio Cho‚ is “anything other than the minimum amount of equipment‚ materials
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SUBJECT: Municipal Solid Waste Descriptions and Problems ABSTRACT: The Municipal Solid Waste is based in 4 main components that are recycling‚ composting‚ landfilling and waste-to-energy that is mainly done by burning the waste. This is known as materials of no longer being of value and is thrown out for disposal. Waste is handled and separated into different containers which are divided into solids‚ plastics and paper mainly. There are different types of Waste Handling starting back in the
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FOOD WASTE Fresh vegetables‚ ready-to-cook meals‚ and cheap meat is what a modern consumer’s supposed grocery list comprises of! Dump it all into your fridge full of deals‚ discount offers and feel happy. This is how the shop keeper gets a loyal customer. At the end o the story‚ it’s the food industry’s creed that the customer is always right….. If food became it s own pungent country‚ it would be the world’s third biggest contributor to climatic changes. According to United Nations Food and Agriculture
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Chapter 5 Review of the Waste Management System in the Philippines: Initiatives to Promote Waste Segregation and Recycling through Good Governance Vella ATIENZA1 Abstract Like other developing countries‚ waste management has become a major problem in the Philippines for the past decades. This paper provides an overview of the waste management and recycling in the Philippines and the responses of the government to address various problems brought about by improper waste management. It reviews
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