States Environmental Protection Agency oversees a variety of waste issues. These include regulation of hazardous wastes‚ landfill regulations‚ and setting recycling goals. More specific recycling legislation is localized through city or state governments. Further regulation is reserved for individual states to create. State regulation falls into two major categories: landfill bans and recycling goals.” (Wikipedia‚ 2008) So basically we need to start small to go big. All that is needed is participation
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Recycling is known to be beneficial to the environment if done on a massive scale. The question is whether or not recycling should be made mandatory. There are many benefits to recycling and there are disadvantages as well. Some benefits include reducing waste‚ cost effectiveness‚ and education of the public on the consequences we will run into if we do not recycle. One of the benefits of making recycling mandatory is that it helps lessen the waste to the environment by allowing us to use certain
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Patrice Morris January 30‚ 2012 Com/156 Body Paragraphs Recycling and waste prevention are two very important ways to help address the issues of the environment concerning climate change. Recycling is a very beneficial factor that more individuals need to exercise in order to improve the environment’s pollution‚ reduce emissions of greenhouse gases‚ and save energy and natural resources that are used to produce products from virgin materials rather than from recycled materials‚ which uses less
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Bibliography: 1. LANDFILL RECOVERY AND USE IN NIGERIA (PRE-FEASIBILITY STUDIES OF USING LFGE) Centre for People and Environment (CPE) 39 iberty Road‚ Oke Ado P.O. Box 3‚ Ibadan‚ Oyo State‚ Nigeria 2. MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE CHARACTERISTICS AND MANAGEMENT IN NIGERIA by T. Ch
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IMPORTANCE OF PLASTIC:- Plastics are a subset of materials known as Polymers. These are composed of large molecules formed by joining many smaller molecules together (monomers). Other kinds of polymers are fibres‚ elastomers‚ surface coating and biopolymers‚ such as cellulose‚ proteins and nucleic acids. Plastics owe their name to their ability to be shaped to form articles of practical value by various conversion and forming processes. These are some peculiar properties of plastics materials‚ which
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ecosystem. Have you ever stopped to think about how much garbage you throw away each day? Do you know where your garbage ends up? Much of the household trash-product packaging‚ furniture‚ clothing‚ food scraps‚ yard trimming and other items – ends up in landfills. Garbage (also known as rubbish‚ trash‚ refuse‚ waste‚ junk and litter) is unwanted or useless materials. In biology‚ it is any of the many unwanted substances or toxins that are spelled from living organisms‚ metabolic waste‚ such as urea‚ sweat
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viewed as potential resources that can be reused‚ recycled or composted. “How can we avoid producing so much solid waste”? Integrated Waste Management:--a variety of strategies for both waste reduction and waste management. 54% buried in landfills 25% recycled 14% incinerated 7% composted 75-90% of solid waste we produce could be eliminated by combination of strategies. FIRST PRIORITY change industrial process to eliminate use of harmful chemicals. use less of harmful chemicals
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next week‚ next year.” (Rose). It is our way of life. We may fight to get the last shirt off of the rack or the last pair of shoes left‚ but we always know there will be more. It’s a never ending cycle that is slowing destroying our nation landfill by landfill‚ consumer by product.
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Agency (U.S.). 1989. The solid waste dilemma: an agenda for action [EPA] Environmental Protection Agency (U.S.). 1990. Characterization of municipal solid waste in the United States: 1990 update [EPA] Environmental Protection Agency (U.S.). 1997. Landfill reclamation. EPA530-F97-001. Washington‚ D.C.: EPA. p 8. [EPA] Environmental Protection Agency (U.S.). 2002. Solid waste management: a local challenge with global impacts [EPA] Environmental Protection Agency (U.S.). 2004. WasteWise 2004 annual report—sustaining
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needed for recycling compared with plastic bags. 7. Degradability versus sustainability: All degradability involves the total loss of the basic materials and the creation of both the land and airborne pollution. Plastic films help to stabilize landfill and will not produce the ground-water
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