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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onto a plate. The main causes of this problem is very strict use-by or expiration dates‚ and our obsession with wanting aesthetically perfect food. For example‚ fruits and vegetables that are still edible‚ nutritious and tasty are often discarded because they are slightly bruised or deformed. Pictured above: Deformed fruits and vegetables that are usually tossed out for their lack of cosmetic perfection Overconsumption is not limited to food alone. With the general increase in household wealth
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FACTS ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE 1. What is climate change? Climate change is a long-term shift in the climate of a s pecific location‚ region or planet. The shift is measured by changes in features associated with average weather‚ such as temperature‚ wind patterns and pr ecipitation. What most peo ple don’t know is that a change in the variability of climate is also considered climate change‚ even if average weather conditions remain the same. Climate change occurs when the climate
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Journal- The changing climate The world has over the last century gone through big changes. This does not only concern the changes in technology but also how countries nowadays are able to interact with each other. The new technology have mad it possible to transfer and spread information faster than ever before. These changes have lead to huge possibilities when it comes to researches‚ to do researches that earlier have not been doable. For example when it comes to knowledge about illnesses and health
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Waste management is important and crucial to humans. It is actually the collection‚ storage‚ processing‚ disposing‚ and recycling of waste products. These waste products are mainly of household waste‚ industrial waste‚ nuclear power plants and so on. The problem of improper waste management is on the rise from day to day. If the waste products are not managed properly‚ it will cause a lot of bad influences to humans. The effects of improper waste management to humans are contamination of soil‚ floods
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Climate Change Paper Climate Change Paper Climate change has been a controversial topic over the last twenty years and its prevalence in today’s society has made it a household term. In fact‚ scientists are not only certain climate change is a fact and is currently taking place‚ but are 95% sure it is caused by human action (Bennett‚ 2012). Scientists theorize that human actions‚ like the burning of fossil fuels‚ have increased the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere‚ and as a result‚ 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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Mumbai’s Waste Disposal Problems The 110 hectare Deonar dumping ground rises up to seven stories high‚ the dumping ground was opened in 1927 and accepted approximately 1‚450‚000 tonnes of waste in 2006. Currently‚ the site has approximately 9.2 million tonnes of waste in place. Dr Neelam Rane‚ vice-president of Smoke Affected Residents Forum (SARF)‚ said‚ "Until now‚ we were agitated because garbage from all over the city was dumped but now we find even bio-medical waste is being incinerated here
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1 Climate Change Global climate change is one of the most urgent environmental problems we have to acknowledge today. The world‚ as we have observed and recorded data over the last several decades‚ is in the midst of an unexpected alteration. Temperature in the winter season is changing more than other seasons and mid to high latitude positions are showing comparatively bigger changes than those of low latitudes. The water vapor‚ carbon dioxide‚ ozone and many other chemical compounds in the atmosphere
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CLIMATE CHANGE‚ CHANGING NEED & AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT REFLECTION BY-Girijesh Singh Mahra M.Sc. Extension Education(Junior Research Fellow) (I.AG.Sc.) B.H.U. Varanasi‚ 221 005 “NATURE HAS SUFFICIENT TO FULFILL THE NEED OF ALL BUT NOTHING TO SATISFY THE GREED OF ONE” Once‚ I visited a hospital for my health checkup‚there I saw a man with shattered skin‚rashes all over the body;clearcut it was the case of allergy
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