Privatization Of Municipal Solid Waste

Municipal solid wastes are leftovers made by the population such as food, plastic bottles, household wares and many more. These items referred by most as “the garage” or “trash”. (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 2015) In the early 1900’s, incinerators were used to burn waste however by the Mid-20th century, lawmakers enacted the first government regulations in an attempt to address increasing concerns about the environmental impact of unregulated waste management practices. With the first waste management legislation being passed in 1965, brought along the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency in 1970, thus bringing us into a new world of waste management.(Vault, n.d.)

Solid wastes are any abandoned or discarded materials, thus solid wastes can be liquid, solid, semi-solid or containerized gaseous material. The solid waste contains municipal garbage, waste tires, industrial waste, agricultural refuse, toys and furniture, oil and so on. Normally, The Municipal Solid Waste contains four components, which are recycling, composting, disposal and waste to energy. The biggest issue facing Toronto in the near feature would be the solid waste issue because solid waste would cause pollution, land lacks and health problems. The way to address the waste problem would be collaborating with the government through specific method and program such as invented new technology, increase involvement of public engagement and use of geography information system and mathematic model. There are some evidences show that solid waste would be the serious problem. Toronto’s 2015 Vital Signs Report points that “After increases over three years in the amount of residential waste generated (from 799,812 tonnes in 2011 to 815,450 in 2012 and 823,743 in 2013), 2014 saw a small 2.3% decrease from 2013 (to 804,369 tonnes).”(Toronto Foundation, p158). At the meantime, it seems that Toronto issues are getting worse because it is hard to find landfill site, the rising disposal costs relate to landfill and the way that transport the waste to Michigan would cause high transportation cost.

Waste Management is a company in North America that provides wastes and environmental services. It was founded back in 1894 by Larry Beck. (Prezi Web) The company headquarter is in Houston, Texas. It is the biggest provider of waste management services in North America. It provides services which include collection, transfer, recycling, and disposal. Waste Management is a developer, operator, and owner of waste-to-energy and landfill gas-to-energy facilities in the United States.(Reuters Web) It has expanded its operations both technically and geographically, acquiring a host of sophisticated suppliers of trash-to-energy plants, pollution control equipment, and recycling services, while signing contracts with municipalities from Buenos Aires to Hong Kong.(funding Universe Web)

However, privatisation of public services has challenged this traditional and clear distinction between the public and private sector, particularly when contractors exercising public/legislative powers do no meet the expectations of governments or consumers and therefore some form of judicial review is required.

Our company has been in business for more than ten years now. As an organization, we have had our fair share of success and obstacles, but all in all success has had the bigger share. In all the cases, we have increased our efforts to specialize in our respective field and take it to an entirely new level (Hood, 2007). There was a time when our company had few resources, and we had to opt for improvising and using the available resources to get us going. The following year we were able to get enough resources, and we got back to our feet (Ifezuo, 2011). During this period, there was war prevailing in our country. Availability of resources became scarce due to the war. The limit of resources started to decline the economy of our country and most companies stated recycling as a method of finding resources (Marshall, 2010).

Waste Management, Inc. is the nation's largest waste collector (Feder). In other words, they collect and recycle garbage. They are a known brand and dominate the regions of the country and Canada where they provide services. Grownups and kids alike see their trucks and think, "Garbage". Which could sound awful, but garbage is lucrative.

While governments have the great responsibility with dealing with decisions that may have a profound effect on its community, the recent mainstream effects of neoliberalism has caused private companies to share this burden. Strategic business led management now assists in the guidance of some process where public resources favour investment but for who’s profit. While neoliberalism has been proven to rejuvenate urban areas in favour for the general public by increasing employment rates, promoting economic growth, and establishing enhanced public areas and facilities, it also legitimizes power towards the private sector and yields profits while it can be against the public’s greater interest (Campbell & Marshall, 2000).

Primarily, privatization is “to achieve higher allocation and productive efficiency and to strengthen the role of private sector in the economy” (Sheshinski & Lopez-Calva, 2003). They describe that these two objectives are the main reasons behind government contracting its sectors to private parties and are associated with microeconomic efficiency. Secondarily, it is “to improve the public sector’s financial health and “to free resources for allocation in other important areas of government activity-usually related to social policy” (Sheshinski & Lopez-Calva, 2003). For the next ones, they explain that these reduce the level of borrowing and reallocate the possible expenditure towards social policy areas, and these are connected to public sector finance.

Review of solid waste and government plans for large metropolitan areas in the US and Canada with a large percentage of high-density residential dwellings. The key information to review are the timelines for implementation along with embedded penalties and incentives to achieve participation goals. (Seattle Public Utilities, 2015)

The American people unintentionally destroy Waste Management by reducing and recycling the amount of waste. There is a disconnection between the people and Waste Management. Even though Waste Management has more landfill capacity than others, no one wants to increase its wasteland profit. The business environment and sociocultural have changed. The changing environment and the trend analysis has supported the idea of many companies choosing the zero-waste route. This will therefore reduce revenues for Waste Management, creating an ambiguous future for the corporation.

With the current economic and environmental market, we find that businesses are desperately seeking ways of saving money or cutting back on current expenditures. However they are often unaware of the savings that creative waste management solutions can have for their business. (Van Wyk 2014)

The terrestrial resource I chose was solid waste. The EPA defines solid waste as “any garbage or refuse, sludge from a wastewater treatment plant, water supply treatment plant, or air pollution control facility and other discarded material, including solid, liquid, semi-solid, or contained gaseous material resulting from industrial, commercial, mining, and agricultural operations, and from community activities. What this basically means is that anything that we produce and do not reuse is solid waste. If you really stop and think about how often we see this in our everyday lives it is amazing. From our stop at Starbucks in the morning to get our cup of coffee and

Municipal waste has residential, commercial, institutional, and industrial components, and includes all non-water waste produced by housing units, retail and wholesale businesses, institutions such as prisons and hospitals, and large-scale office businesses (IDEM, 2001). Non-municipal waste includes construction/demolition debris, foundry waste, coal ash, and other similar by-products of intense refining or manufacturing operations

From water drainages to uncompleted buildings, open field and most recently under a high tension power line belonging to the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, anywhere can be used as dump sites. Simply put, open spaces in and around satellite towns are now at risk. The refuse dumps stink horribly and has taken up a large portion of a high tension PHCN power mast. Refuse collectors routinely set fire to the refuse in an effort to reduce its size to a manageable level. For example, a refuse collector, Mallam Zubairu Abubakar who was seen emptying the contents of his truck at the unapproved dump site defended his action. According to him “where do you expect us to dump the refuse”, we have to find a way of disposing the refuse so I joined them. I expect that the government will use their truck to remove what we dump here and take it wherever they want or in the alternative, show us another place to use as dump.

The management of municipal solid waste become one of the most crucial issues in many countries due to rapid increase in population and economic growths. This essay will seek to critically evaluate and review the waste generation and physical characteristics in Malaysia and also shows the current management system of solid waste in this country based on published information. The major problems and issues that Malaysia is facing with will be mentioned .Therefore, gives an overview of the future in terms of quantities based on analyzing the data.