BIOMEDICAL WASTE 1)Introduction: Biomedical waste‚ also known as infectious waste or medical waste‚ is defined as solid waste generated during the diagnosis‚ testing‚ treatment‚ research or production of biological products for humans or animals. Biomedical waste includes syringes‚ live vaccines‚ laboratory samples‚ body parts‚ bodily fluids and waste‚ sharp needles‚ cultures and lancets. Biomedical waste consists of solids‚ liquids‚ sharps‚ and laboratory waste that are potentially infectious
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What is e-waste? E-waste is those waste materials consisting of any broken or unwanted / obsolete electrical or electronic appliances & gadgets. If it is not carried out properly it can dangerous to the human health or to the environment. India currently produces 500‚000 tones of e-waste annually and the figure is expected to touch one million tones in 2012. However‚ India lacks a proper e-waste disposal system and it is left up to the unorganized sector to dispose of the waste. The unorganized
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conditions in the focused community‚ the City of Vancouver‚ is the overwhelming amount of food waste being sent to landfill. If the food waste were composted instead‚ not only does it reduce the space quantity waste going to the landfill‚ the organic matters are also reused. This paper discusses food waste management in the City of Vancouver and determines the most feasible method to handle the food waste rather than contributing more to the landfills. By interviewing professionals in the industry
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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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WASTE DISPOSAL SYSTEM AND MANAGEMENT One of the most common problems that the world is facing right now is the dilemma on garbage disposal. As a result‚ global warming is evident in our world nowadays. Proper segregation and discarding of waste is essential to prevent environmental and health threats from happening such as floods‚ diseases cause by inappropriate waste disposal‚ etc. Waste is a material that is no longer needed‚ wanted or used. It is anything unusable or is intended to be discarded
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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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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 the
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Question: Water is an increasingly valuable resource‚ but people continue to waste a lot of it. Some governments want to impose permanent water restrictions on domestic and agricultural use. Others feel we should put more effort into recycling water. Discuss these views and give your opinion. Although we have thought about the sustainability of the water for a long time‚ it remains many arguments to preserve the water between nations‚ private sectors‚ and civilians. This trend is now one of
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Hazardous waste and its proper disposal have become a major sociological problem today due to its capability of contaminating the area in which we live and its potential to be lethal to all living things. In order for the United States and the rest of the world to save itself from a potentially life threatening problem they must fix the causes which lead to the improper disposal of hazardous wastes and like materials. Some reasons that hazardous waste has become a problem in the United States today
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solid waste on health The group at risk from the unscientific disposal of solid waste include – the population in areas where there is no proper waste disposal method‚ especially the pre-school children; waste workers; and workers in facilities producing toxic and infectious material. Other high-risk group include population living close to a waste dump and those‚ whose water supply has become contaminated either due to waste dumping or leakage from landfill sites. Uncollected solid waste also increases
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