Improper Disposal of Garbage In Brgy. Guinhalaran‚ Proper‚ Silay City Abstract Proper waste disposal minimizes and reduces the risk of accidental injury to staff‚ clients‚ visitors and the local community and it helps provide an aesthetically pleasing atmosphere. It also reduces odors and reduces the likelihood of contamination of the soil or ground water with chemicals or micro organisms. Biodegradable waste is a type of waste‚ typically originating
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INTRODUCTION Waste is an unavoidable by-product of most human activity. Economic development and rising living standards in the Asian and Pacific Region have led to increases in the quantity and complexity of generated waste‚ whilst industrial diversification and the provision of expanded health-care facilities have added substantial quantities of industrial hazardous waste and biomedical waste into the waste stream with potentially severe environmental and human health consequences. Waste is a general
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WASTE DISPOSAL: IT’S IMPACT Improper waste management continues to be major problem that affects us all. Waste dumped into a various waterways has created floating island of toxic pollutants in our oceans. One of these islands‚ is “The Greatest Pacific Garbage Patch” has received media attention for its size-estimated to be twice the size of Hawaii and its known destructive effects on the wildlife and food supply. Diseases‚ such as Dengue fever‚ prevalent in developing nations are believed
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PROPER WASTE DISPOSAL: IS IT REALLY OBSERVED AND PRACTICED? Clarence Hannah Tan Dalida JUBILEE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY Acknowledgements First of all‚ I would like to thank my wonderful parents whose support has inspired me greatly in making a willful choice in doing my best. I appreciate the skills that they have imparted to me to upon doing this research and their editing of my work has been of great help. Also‚ I would like to thank the library of Trinity College for being a good source of books which
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Effects of Improper Disposal of Waste By Eric Dontigney‚ eHow Contributor Waste disposal falls into three general categories: non-hazardous‚ hazardous and nuclear waste disposal. Non-hazardous waste includes household or office waste such as food‚ product containers‚ and waste that can be recycled. Hazardous waste includes industrial and residential chemicals‚ petroleum products and heavy metals. Nuclear waste may include spent fuel rods from a nuclear reactor‚ medical nuclear waste or equipment used
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Effects of waste and bad waste disposal. Imagine we all throw garbage‚ junk and rubbish away anyhow. Imagine there was no authority to supervise waste management activities from all the sources mentioned earlier. Imagine we all just sent our rubbish to the landfill‚ or just dumped them in a nearby river. What do you think will happen? A disaster! Environmental Effects Surface water contamination: Waste that end up in water bodies negatively change the chemical composition of the water. Technically
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Waste management is the collection‚ transport‚ processing‚ recycling or disposal‚ and monitoring of waste materials. The term usually relates to materials produced by human activity‚ and is generally undertaken to reduce their effect on health‚ the environment or aesthetics. Waste management is also carried out to recover resources from it. Waste management can involve solid‚liquid‚ gaseous or radioactive substances‚ with different methods and fields of expertise for each. Waste management practices
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Health-care waste management in India is receiving greater attention due to recent regulations (the Biomedical Wastes (Management & Handling) Rules‚ 1998). The prevailing situation is analyzed covering various issues like quantities and proportion of different constituents of wastes‚ handling‚ treatment and disposal methods in various health-care units (HCUs). The waste generation rate ranges between 0•5 and 2•0 kg per bed per day. It is estimated that annually about 0•33 million tonne of waste are generated
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Review of related literature While elements of disaster preparedness have long been a social adjustment to environmental hazards‚ both the art and science of disaster preparedness are relatively new courses of study in business‚ non-profit‚ government‚ and academic sectors (Fox‚ 2006). As with any new course of study‚ the beginnings of established practice will have inherent weaknesses and areas for improvement. To date‚ a multitude of issues that should be addressed by stakeholders have
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CHAPTER I BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Solid waste disposal is both an urban and rural problem. Person is a potential generation of waste and thus a contribution to this problem. to generate is one thing‚ the type of waste generated is another and now also the way of generated waste is to manage or dispose of it’s quite different issue. Solid waste is any material which comes from domestic and industrial sources from human activities which has no value to people who possess it and
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