Organizational solutions paper
An Liu
SOC 360-001
Executive Summary
As a founder of an environmental organization, my mission is to promote the construction, do a reality, a continuous development of society. Therefore, it is the deep concern of nature; to solve our environmental problems is a big part of the task. In particular, the global warming may be the most serious environmental problems we face today. Therefore, in our efforts to fight global warming as an organization, we made a commitment, efforts to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide, the main cause of global warming. This paper is a description how the organization created by me (Organization of Reduce e-waste) protects the environment for sustainability.
Introduction
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To protect the local environment, we have been doing, we are actively participate in the conference and consultation with the local citizens for the environment protection.
Research results
I will summarize the affect of the goal to prove my organization should be created. Electronic waste describes discarded electrical or electronic equipment. Waste electronic products are doomed to reuse, resell, salvage, and recycling or disposal as e-waste. Informal e-waste treatment in developing countries may cause serious health and pollution problems, because these countries with limited supervision electronic waste processing. I read news about e-waste, it said, “Roughly 40 million metric tons of electronic waste (e-waste) are produced globally each year, and about 13 percent of that weight is recycled mostly in developing countries. About 9 million tons of this waste—discarded televisions, computers, cellphones, and other electronics—are produced by the European Union, according to the United Nations Environment Programmer (UNEP). And UNEP notes that this estimate of waste is likely too low.”[1] Electronic waste is one of the most rapid growths of municipal solid waste stream. E-waste contains many valuable recyclable materials, such as aluminum, copper, gold, silver metal, plastic, and black. According to a report by UNEP titled, "Recycling - from E-Waste to Resources," the amount of e-waste being produced - including mobile phones and computers - could rise by as much as
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As used electronics is becoming a waster hazard worldwide local governments such as where I live include programs at local waste stations purely for electronics. This encourages local residents to freely drop off their electronic waste, like TV’s and computers and mobile phones to these locations where the waste is sorted and than shipped to facilities that can process this waste appropriately which also includes recycling as much material as possible. This has a
Alex Lin was one teen activist who saw a problem in e-waste.He was reading an article from the wall street journal, and he saw that there was an e-waste tsunami to come. In the article, it said that Americans discarded more than 112,000 computers daily, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.Even worse, just 18 percent of discarded televisions and computer products were collected for recycling.To stop this he created team W.I.N, {Westerly Innovations Network}.He worked with Metech International to hold a recycling program for e-waste and they collected 21,000 pounds of E-Waste.Then his team saw that it was easier to refurbish the electronics than to recycle them.He worked with his school district to put refurbishing
Since by thinking about the environment we are making sure that the resources of the future generation are not endangered. The author also points out the whole idea of to redesigning the way we make things can not only depends on the manufacture but also depends on the consumer end of the business spectrum. This is due the fact the even if the manufacturer is trying to come up with ways that are safe to the environment, they are only as effective as the consumer what follows the ways to dispose of that
Environmental change is a logical certainty, and progressively a lived human concern. However, it is not yet what everybody should call social-global problem in one voice. It's not an essential almost we shape our social practices, nor a sufficiently huge social standard to go about as an imperative on our conduct. Around the planet there is developing energy to characterize environmental change as a security issue and thus as a motivation topping issue that merits noteworthy consideration and assets. Calls for movement are developing - yet at the same time outlined activities to address the issue has a cost or weight that will hamper business and go about as a drag on the economy.
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Covanta Energy Corporation (Covanta), formerly known as Ogden Corporation in 1939 until 2001 when the company changed its name, operates as a subsidiary of Covanta Holding Corporation. When Ogden Corp. faced the economic crisis in 1960s, Ralph Ablon, the president and directing force behind the Ogden Corp. said, “Evolutionary adaptation is just as important for a company as it is for organisms” (“Ogden Corporation”). Indeed, evolutionary adaptation has repeatedly taken Covanta from facing the danger of bankruptcy to a successful recession-resistant business model as it is today. Evolutionary adaptation has also helped Covanta slowly merging into e-waste recycling business, also known as electronic waste recycling. While environmental groups are concerned for the issue of air emission, Covanta executes efficient implementations on the process of incineration so as to gain more control of emissions. By doing so, Covanta is able to maintain 80% to 85% below Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) air quality limits (LaMonica). Correspondingly, Covanta’s effective business strategies lead to a rapid growth in its sustainability. Especially since the announcement of hiring a Chief Sustainability Officer for the Refuse System in 2008, Covanta’s sustainability engagement has shown a “significantly positive effect on the wealth of shareholders of the firm” (Sharma, Rajneesh, and A. J. Stagliano 14). Besides, because Covanta approaches its greater sustainability by
All of these factors have significant effects on the environment globally, and will lead to many issues not only environmentally but also in the way we live and how countries interact. Although some readers may object, saying that we can prevent these things if we start taking actions now. Many scientists who have studied the environment have stated that the results of our actions are irreversible, and we can only maintain the level of environmental disparity. With this knowledge in mind, I call everyone to take actions to limit the amount of greenhouse we emit and try to reduce waste by recycling. While most people have been told this countless times by a countless number people, now is the time to act. Because while we can’t reverse these actions we can prevent the world from becoming an even worse place than it will already become. Because in 100 years due to environmental issues we have created the arctic and the world will be a worse place than it is
One of the most heavily discussed topics, in this last decade, is the environmental decay of our planet. Diverse concepts have materialized in order to find solutions for the problem. Ecology and sustainable growth have been confirmed to be the main solutions currently. Innovations for sustainable growth include: creation of hybrid cars, recycling and minor discharge of carbon dioxide in factories among others (Christ 23). Environmental awareness was also introduced to the world of fashion, unfortunately, it wasn’t very successful; lately there has been a change of situation and that is what we are going to attempt to understand.
For quite some time, life on earth has been nothing but peaches and cream for several people and because of people who live a non-sustainable life, it has left others with an indistinct outlook on earth’s future. Sustainability to me is doing things that will help prevent harmful things from happening to the environment now and in the future. With the support of the sustainability and more quality ways of living, the Earth Charter is gradually introduced. Through key research I will explain what the Earth Charter is and why it was founded, describe one of its four parts along with the goals and overarching philosophy, and share the impact it has on my life now and in the future.
Environmental issues have been a cause of a lot of debate in the recent past. Governments and nongovernmental organizations have been in constant consultations on how to help protect the environment. Apparently, as a result of man’s many actions, the natural environment is getting torn apart so quickly that the coming generations will not enjoy this kind of environment, unless a
the world’s environment as a threat, but as another opportunity and soon implemented a responsible
Thesis statement: It is important that the governments and people find solution for Global Warming problem and decrease the buildings and greenhouses emission, cut down the industrial waste heat, and encourage people to use biofuel in their vehicles.