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    Waste to Energy

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    Waste-to-energy Taking Care of Garbage Michelle Rowland Buena Vista University Waste-to-energy Taking Care of Garbage We all have to share this world with its limited resources. We must take advantage of all resources we have‚ regardless if they came from the earth‚ are man made‚ or are waste products. The average person in America throws away 3.7 pounds of garbage every day (Resource Recovery Public Works‚ 2009). It is no surprise that this leads to landfills that are filling faster

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    Waste Management

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    MANAGING WASTE AND UNDERSTANDING THE PROCESS OF ETHANOL MAKING IN INDIA GLYCOL LTD. Summer Internship Project Report Submitted towards Partial fulfillment of Post Graduate Diploma in Management (Approved by AICTE‚ Govt. of India) Academic Session 2011-2013 Under the Guidance of: Industry Guide Mr. Praveen Srivastava SR. Manager (Production) Faculty Guide Mr. Anoop kumar Srivastava Dr. Shailendra Dube DY. Manager Professor

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    Nuclear Waste

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    Nuclear Waste Should be Disposed In one of his lectures “Nuclear Waste” Richard A. Muller‚ discussing the nuclear waste problem‚ scientists’ attempts to find the solution‚ and the public’s fear around it‚ gives the audience his personal evaluation. He makes a point that since the nuclear waste is here‚ we have to store it and storing at Yucca Mountain is not the worst option‚ because the dangers of storing it there is smaller than the dangers of not doing so. This lecture makes me recall the

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    Elizabethan Poor Laws and the Unworthy Poor Tara McFadden Indiana University School of Social Work Abstract Beginning in the Elizabethan Era‚ unworthy poor was a label placed on able bodied people that appeared to choose to not work. They were often treated harshly and in extreme cases‚ put to death (Shelly‚ 2011). In today’s society such treatment would be unheard of. The act of even labeling this group of people or other groups is discouraged and even against the NASW’s The Code of Ethics

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    Waste Management

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    1. Waste Management Waste Classification Waste is any substance or object that the holder discards or intends to discard. Waste can be hazardous or non-hazardous in nature. Generally waste from SMEs arises under some of the following categories: office (e.g. office paper)‚ retail (e.g. packaging waste)‚ hospitality (food waste) and manufacturing or process waste. Non-hazardous commercial waste includes packaging waste‚ canteen waste and office paper waste. Hazardous waste is generally waste that

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    food waste

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    what our grandmas always used to tell us: Do not waste food; think of all the hungry children in Africa. At my recent TEDx talk‚ I mentioned that global food waste could feed every starving child‚ man and woman on this planet – three times over in fact! Here is some food for thought: A global shame Globally‚ human beings produce enough food waste to feed 3 billion people: over 30% of the world’s food supply is wasted. The annual food waste in Italy could feed 44 million people – all of Ethiopia’s

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    Working with the Poor

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    WORKING WITH THE POOR As a Social Work student‚ I have been exposed to different faces of poverty especially during this school year. These exposures have taught me a lot of life lessons and helped me grow as a person. One of the realizations I had with these exposures is how poverty differently shaped the lives of the poor. Thus‚ I had different views of poverty. If you dig deeper into the causes of illegal activities‚ one of these is poverty. Once‚ I had given an opportunity to interview

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    Electronic Waste

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    Electronic Waste The mishandling of electronic waste also referred to as E-Waste‚ has lasting environment and social impacts on underdeveloped and struggling countries that become dumping grounds for unwanted and nonworking electrical and electronic components and devices. Many of the electronic-waste recycling facilities are located in South and East Asia. E-waste is a source of electronic parts and valuable metals for reuse. This industry is only profitable in Asia‚ because laborers work for

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    Waste in Macbeth

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    Waste in Macbeth Throughout the play Macbeth‚ characters change and so do their relationships with other characters. Life is taken for granted‚ and tossed away as if it’s merely an old toy. Honour and potential of great men tarnished due to their greed and power hunger. The plot develops the idea that A.C Bradley proposes: The central feeling of a tragedy is one of waste. Macbeth is portrayed as a tragic hero‚ someone who has it all at first but decides to give it all up. Throughout the story

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    food waste

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    Food Waste? Too valuable to waste! According to statistics from the Environmental Protection Department‚ in Hong Kong‚ solid waste generated daily weighs around 17000 tones‚ of which around 30% is organic matter (2700 tones) which is roughly equal to 120 double-deck buses in size. Compared this to the US where‚ revealed by the Environmental Protection Agency‚ only 12% of waste stream was scrap of food in 2005. Extra care in disposal is required for these putrescible wastes‚ otherwise nuisance

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