The disposal of nuclear waste is quickly becoming the most important issue facing the environmental community today. Nearly twenty percent of our nation’s electricity is being supplied by approximately 100 nuclear power plants that are operating in the United States. Currently‚ most of the nuclear waste created by these power plants is being housed temporarily in storage facilities and although the total amount of nuclear waste produced in one year is small‚ the need to find a permanent method
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Investigation into Waste Management on Construction Sites in South Western Nigeria 1‚ 2 O.O. Akinkurolere and 3S.O. Franklin 1 Department of Civil Engineering‚ Faculty of Engineering‚ University of Ado-Ekiti‚ Nigeria 2 China University of Geosciences‚ 430074‚ Yujia Shan‚ Wuhan Hubei Province‚ People’s Republic of China 3 Department of Civil Engineering‚ Faculty of Engineering‚ University of Ibadan‚ Nigeria Abstract: This study aims to report investigation into the problem of waste management
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Plastic Waste Management 1. Plastics Waste: Environmental Issues and Challenges The quantum of solid waste is ever increasing due to increase in population‚ developmental activities‚ changes in life style‚ and socio-economic conditions‚ Plastics waste is a significant portion of the total municipal solid waste (MSW). It is estimated that approximately 10 thousand tons per day (TPD) of plastics waste is generated i.e. 9% of 1.20 lacs TPD of MSW in the country. The plastics waste constitutes two major
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Solid waste management Introduction to solid waste management Solid waste is the unwanted or useless solid materials generated from combined residential‚ industrial and commercial activities in a given area. It may be categorised according to its origin (domestic‚ industrial‚ commercial‚ construction or institutional); according to its contents (organic material‚ glass‚ metal‚ plastic paper etc); or according to hazard potential (toxic‚ non-toxin‚ flammable‚ radioactive‚ infectious etc). Management
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Municipal Waste Management in Namibia: The Windhoek Case Study by Raili Hasheela October 2009 Universidad Azteca Municipal Waste Management in Namibia: The Windhoek Case Study Dissertation Thesis for the Management Doctorate of Philosophy in Management with specialisation in Environmental Management by Raili Hasheela October 2009 Supervisor: Professor Gerhard Berchtold Universidad Azteca 1 Commission: Dissertation Examination Commission: DDr. Gerhard Berchtold‚ PGDipEDM
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treatment‚ or domestic wastewater treatment‚ is the process of removing contaminants from wastewater and household sewage‚ both runoff (effluents) and domestic. It includes physical‚ chemical‚ and biological processes to remove physical‚ chemical and biological contaminants. Its objective is to produce an environmentally-safe fluid waste stream (or treated effluent) and a solid waste (or treated sludge) suitable for disposal or reuse (usually as farm fertilizer). Using advanced technology it is now possible
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Nuclear Waste by Richard A. Muller Nuclear waste is a radioactive waste that is dangerous‚ and a fair percentage of people would agree on this topic. However‚ is it really dangerous or is it just harmful to an extent? In society‚ many debates are held over trying to prove to the world that this substance is harmful. In the essay‚ “Nuclear Waste‚” Muller states clearly that he sides with the anti-nuke of the debate and how he pinpoints the facts of nuclear waste with great persuasion. Yet‚ it is
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INTRODUCTION The Philippines is looming with garbage problems despite the passage of the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act or the Republic Act (RA) 9003. In 2007‚ the first quarter data from the National Solid Waste Management Commission shows that there are 677 open dumpsites‚ 343 controlled dumps‚ and 21 landfills in the country. An additional 307 dump sites are subject for closure or rehabilitation plans but without definite schedules for enforcement. About 215 additional landfills are
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process of recovering waste paper and remaking it into new paper products. There are three categories of paper that can be used as feedstocks for making recycled paper: mill broke‚ pre-consumer waste‚ and post-consumer waste.[1] Mill broke is paper trimmings and other paper scrap from the manufacture of paper‚ and is recycled internally in a paper mill. Pre-consumer waste is material which left the paper mill but was discarded before it was ready for consumer use. Post-consumer waste is material discarded
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1.1.1. Leather industrial waste: Prominent effectiveness of leather industry is amplified by high input and expenditure but on other side it causes huge waste of resource‚ incredible environmental pollution and biological chain destruction [17]. Streams of gaseous‚ liquid and solid waste are resulted by environmental blow of tanneries. Global leather industry generates 4 million tones of solid waste per year [18]. People use products of the leather-processing industry on a daily basis. These include
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