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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Managing our Solid Waste: An Overview of the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act Much had been written about the worsening problem of solid waste in Metro Manila and other urban centers in the country. Even more were fora‚ seminars and conferences conducted to discuss ways of solving the problem. For how long would it take us to attain a zero waste economy‚ no one knows. But‚ one thing is sure - time is running out and WE need to act NOW! Why WE? The answer is simple‚ but at the same time
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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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Executive Summary Background Waste Management‚ Inc.‚ founded in 1894‚ offers environmental services to nearly 20 million residential‚ industrial‚ commercial‚ and municipal customers in the US‚ Canada‚ and Puerto Rico. With a large customer base‚ it is difficult to picture such a large company committing fraud. However‚ between the years of 1992 and 1997‚ several chief officers in the company engaged in a systematic scheme to falsify and misrepresent Waste Management’s financial results. Heading
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1. Based on the fraud triangle‚ there are several factors present at Waste Management that are indicative of each of the three fraud conditions. Incentives: from the case‚ the SEC staff claimed that the top Waste Management officers’ fraudulent conduct was driven by greed and a desire to retain their corporate positions and status in the business and social communities. Their bonuses‚ retirement benefits and stock options closely correlate with the performance of the company. If the company
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Central Bio-Medical Waste treatment facility at its super Speciality Campus for the disposal of the Bio-Medical waste generated by the hospital. The facility is equipped with Incinerator with 100Kg/hour capacity with proper air pollution control devices and effluent treatment plant‚ a microwave and a shredder. The hospital is well authorized under stipulated rules by the Uttarakhand Environment Protection and Pollution Control Board‚ Haldwani. According to Bio Medical Waste (Management and Handling
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ABSTRACT: The term “waste to energy” has traditionally referred to the practice of incineration of garbage. Today‚ a new generation of waste-to-energy technologies is emerging which hold the potential to create renewable energy from waste matter‚ including municipal solid waste‚ industrial waste‚ agricultural waste‚ and waste byproducts. The main categories of waste-to-energy technologies are physical technologies‚ which process waste to make it more useful as fuel; thermal technologies
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English Diagnostic Essay Is Reading Fiction is a Waste of Time? ! ! Reading fiction is not a waste of time. There are many reasons why fictional books are good to read‚ but some of the main reasons are: reading fictional literature increases emotional awareness‚ enhances learning‚ and reading is good for the mind.! ! ! Fiction is full of emotion. The avid reader feels many emotions and experiences lives through the characters in the book. As William Styron said‚ “A great book
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considerable manner by food donation for the poor. Food Donation is the main idea of our project idea. The University of Mumbai has many colleges affiliated to itself. Each of these colleges has a Canteen or some arrangement of the type. The project is about attempting to stop the food wastages at the college canteens. There can be food bank arrangements made around the colleges for storing the remaining food which in absence of such arrangements may be thrown out despite of being edible for the day. The
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crackers. They compete as to who bursts the most. Leave aside the sound and air pollution‚ what about the disturbance that is caused to the senior citizens? Most of the time it is the attention seeking people who display extravagance! “Festivals were meant to come closer to god in olden times‚ now it’s a day-off or shop-till-you-drop!” Where is the true meaning of festival??? People are forgetting about the various rituals that are meant to be done together. Agreed‚ a little bit of expenditure is
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