Sources of Information and Knowledge, Attitude and Practice on Solid Waste Management of a Fishing Community

Undoubtedly, as we are stepping towards advancement with technology every day, we are getting exposed to more pollution levels in our life. Water, air and earth, in all these forms of society we are experiencing rapidly growing pollutions. In water, we are experiencing a huge number of unwanted disposals of all sorts from the cruise ships or any private boat. A lot of people now a days doesn't have any idea where to dispose proper wastes. For example, if we go to a grocery store like Walmart or Target, we see big trashcans with it's purpose written on it. There are certain trashcans that are only meant for plastic disposing while some of them are for recyclable objects. People need to educate themselves with this basic things. Not only these, if we look at the bigger picture, in third world countries, earth or soil pollution is one of the major environmental problems. People throwing garbages everywhere on the side of streets, urinating on the side of the street, spitting everywhere are the major habits people are having over the years.

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.)

The legislation of the two state laws (the Long Island Landfill Law of 1983, and the Solid Waste Management Act of 1988) controls solid waste management activities in Nassau and Suffolk Counties. Since then, factors such as mismanaged land filling and Landfill closures have led to a fundamental shift in the roles of local governments and the private sector relating to the collection, transportation, and disposal of solid waste and recyclables.

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.

* State government website, which provide information about different waste collection project, permitting and all other issues related to the waste collation

The solid waste dilemma is not limited to the issue of garbage export. It ultimately raises questions about the source, volume, and nature of the wastes that are being generated. Policy-makers have placed a special emphasis on disposal technologies as they seek a solution

Since more and more people throwing their trash to the side of the road, we are making our home filthy. Not only does the tossing of garbage affect the animals that are on land, but there is a growing problem with trash being thrown into the ocean. The animals in the ocean will often mistake the plastic or other trash left in the water as food and will try to eat the plastic. The animals that try to feed on the trash can die or become extremely sick. If the animals do not die from eating the trash, the animals could get

The purpose of the sanitation company is to fix the habits of non-recycling habits. The research gathers proper

The management of municipal solid waste (MSW) in New York City has changed over the past decade from ocean and street dumping, to unregulated incineration, to current and export landfilling practices (Sylvan, 2011). The NYC Department of Sanitation, which is in charge of managing NYC waste collaborates with the Department of Parks and Recreation, the Sims Multi Recycling Recovery Facility, and GreeNYC to manage the city’s waste through recycling, waste reduction, and composting and organic waste diversion (Cohen et al., 2015). In 2006, to efficiently manage the city’s waste, the city Council approved the Comprehensive Solid Waste Management Plan (SWMP) which was created under the administrator of former Mayor Bloomberg (Cohen et al., 2015).

Recycling has been pushed for decades by many organizations but are rarely enforced. Recycling helps the environment while helping create new, biodegradable products not as harmful to the oceans (Kavraz). To resolve the lack of emphasis, government policies should be placed that critically prevent, monitor, and remove waste in rivers and oceans. Beach security should place various recycling bins across riverbanks and sandbars for people to place their trash in. In doing so, monitoring the people who litter would become more obvious.. Increasing fines and appropriate sentences of jail time would promote the seriousness of the recycling and potentially increase the health status of the oceans drastically.

The average resident produces seven and a half pounds of garbage every day that is buried down in landfills and litters lands costing a great amount of money. Nowadays, people face no more critical trouble than the need to save the weakening environment, mainly in urban areas, where solid wastes are uselessly dumped. It has been observed that cities have no controlled structure for garbage disposal. Each year, millions of dollars are spent picking up litter and more is thrown away in valuable materials that could be recycled. As humanity develops new technology and equipment, the level of waste increases every day. Due to the fact that there is a huge problem with garbage disposal, government representatives must contribute to resolving

Today is the world of technologies which keeps on introducing us with new innovations and advancements and one of these technologies which influenced our lives is mass media. Mass media is a means of communication that reach number of people in a short time. Mass media includes television, newspaper, magazine, radio and Internet (Nariman,2011) . It is a large pool of information from where every type of information can be extracted and is widening more and more. Mass media influences the society especially the younger generation and shape their opinions and decisions. The study of the impacts of mass media requires a great understanding.

The level of waste management in the United States and around the world is unacceptably low. Many people think that waste management is just a garbage and recycling company. Although, “Waste management is the handling of discarded materials, also known as waste or garbage” (“Waste Management”). Waste management is not just a company, it is a global crisis. Waste management is a process leading to less pollution in the oceans and many other places. It can be the igniter for people in the world to go green and preserve the environment and the animals in it. The Barents and Greenland Seas are north of the United States and Europe. These seas are hotspots for plastic pileups. “Plastic has been gathering in the Barents and Greenland Seas” (Johnston). Due to

The main technological choices available for processing/ treatment and disposal of solid waste are composting, vermicomposting, anaerobic digestion/ biomethanation, incineration, gasification and pyrolysis, plasma pyrolysis, production of Refuse Derived Fuel (RDF), also called as pelletization and sanitary landfilling/landfill gas recovery. Not all technologies are equally good. Each one of them has benefits and disadvantages.

However, this approach is given less attention by management and the parties involved in the process of sustainable control waste at construction sites. Construction site waste management can be more efficient if the authorities follow the correct flow of construction waste from the waste is generated until its disposal. Therefore, if the management of construction waste is not taken seriously by all parties, the existence of negative attitudes towards certain parties in the sustainable management of construction waste. When this culture will continue to spread and effects of unhealthy to humans and the environment both physically and biologically.