The Waste And Disposal Services Industry

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 winding road that led us to flawed garbage numbers in Washington and a garbage mountain in LA begins 120 years ago in the NY of the 1890 's widely considered at the time to be among the most exciting, vibrant and corrupt cities in the world, it was also the foulest, smelliest and dirtiest truly a city of garbage. This is arguably the fertile soil in which Americas modern waste management system begins."

There are many waste disposal units set up in Sydney in public areas and in individual’s households.

According to waste legislation business' must establish 'a system that ensures waste producers or those handling waste follow the waste hierarchy (i.e. prevention, reuse, recycling, recovery, disposal)' ( Surrey County Council, 2012) This forces business' to consider waste management throughout their infrastructure.

Ace Scavenger Service began its journey as a small, family owned trash hauling business in 1894. The family business was passed to Dean Buntrock in 1956. Buntrock had the foresight to begin consolidating small trash companies into one large company. He started with the merger of his firm with two other smaller firms in 1968 and created Waste Management, Inc. In 1971, Waste Management, Inc. had its initial public offering and used those proceeds, and some questionable business practices, to take over their competitors. It was a great time to be in the garbage business as throwaway items and containers began to become more and more common and the trash business was also

The article Greenhouse Gas Emissions and the Ontario Waste Management Industry by Maria Kelleher, Christina Seidel, and Ralph Torrie, examined cap and trade policies for greenhouse gases and waste management systems in Ontario, Canada. The authors purpose was to summarize the connections between Ontario’s waste management industry and greenhouse gas emissions, as wells as to identify and explore opportunities and challenges associated with GHG cap and trade systems in industries (Kelleher, Seidel, & Torrie, 2015). A cap and trade policy for GHGs is in preparation for implantation in Ontario. The waste management industry influences GHGs in a variety of ways. Some of these influences include

Municipal waste dumping site is entitled places for waste disposal. Depending on a city’s level of waste management, waste can be literally dumped, separated for recycling purposes, or simply burnt. Poor waste management poses an enormous challenge to the health of city residents, especially those who live near the dump sites. The waste can potentially pollute water, food sources, land, air and vegetation. Poorly dumping waste can lead to environmental degradation, destruction of the ecosystem, and risks to the public health.

To begin waste disposal, is removing and destroying or storing damaged unwanted domestic. Disposal includes burning, burial at landfill sites, and recycling. Trash cans, can affect groundwater quality, especially if you dispose of it improperly. Roadside dumps as well

People in developing countries may not be aware of the consequences of waste disposal in their area, as they only consider whether they can get food to survive. Environmental protection is a luxury for them. This may cause deep-rooted and irreversible effects to the countries. Developed cities should help developing countries, but not to increase their burden and exploit their rights.

Hazardous waste is the worst type of waste when there is no way to treat it (Lerner). If someone doesn't treat waste it won’t be as good to dispose of it if it were treated waste. Extra extra, “Human activities create a continuous waste stream” (Lerner). There are so many people on the world that we could make up our own stream of waste. “Even though some of these landfills have been closed down, they may still stand like ticking time bombs” (Lerner). The way landfill waste goes through the landfill some way it might get stuck and cause a reaction and blow up the landfill and go all over. Majority of the waste produced in the U.S. is from companies like chemical, metal, and mining companies (Lerner). There are tons of people on earth and millions of people in the U.S., but it is pretty sad when more of the waste is produced from factories than the humans that do more. We can reduce the amount of waste we make by eliminating factories that we don't need or use in the

The Philadelphia experience has become the rule rather than the exception in the costly and sometimes bizarre search to dump the trash. Exporting scandals—in which incinerator ash or other wastes are either unloaded illegally or under questionable circumstances—have taken place in a number of African and Latin American countries, such as Nigeria and Guinea-Bissau, and even in England, which has become a haven for garbage, because of its relatively lax standards.

In The Solid Waste Dilemma, An Agenda for Action published by the EPA/530-SW-89-019 in 1989, integrated waste management was referred to as “the complementary use of a variety of waste management practices to safely and effectively handle the MSW stream with the least adverse impact on human health and the environment.”

Hazardous waste and its proper disposal have become a major sociological problem today due to its capability of contaminating the area in which we live and its potential to be lethal to all living things. In order for the United States and the rest of the world to save itself from a potentially life threatening problem they must fix the causes which lead to the improper disposal of hazardous wastes and like materials. Some reasons that hazardous waste has become a problem in the United States today is due to the breakdown in enforcing laws for the proper disposal of such wastes, a lack of initiative on big companies behalf to spend money on proper disposal, and the ease of disposing of such wastes illegally.

There are some reasons for the problem. The first reason is that the effects of the thrown rubbish are very dangerous and extremely harmful. According to Miller (1987), global industrial organizations produce over 80,000 different chemicals (para. 5). Basically, garbage is old, dirty and wet, so that it is a perfect place for bacteria and other viruses to stay in. Rubbish growth in cities has been a problem all over the world for centuries. Landfills have always been regarded as sources of illnesses and unpleasant smells. The harmful wastes from the garbage spread through the ground from paint, chemicals, petrol, batteries, and other toxic materials that have been thrown away into the garbage. The toxic chemicals get into the water pipes and spread through the people’s drinking water. Another reason of that problem is that people have created all these disasters, which are connected with environmental pollution. The more modern technologies are created, the more unbelievable become wastes and remains of what is produced. From this, man is responsible for what he or she created and for the following consequences. Anxieties about the environment have made people more aware of their environmental footprints or the kind of waste they leave behind during their existence. The difficulty is that an average person leaves an incredible amount of wastes in his or her lifetime. According to Lovejoy (1912), all biodegradable substances, contained in

My main concern about waste disposal is toward poverty. In every society, for it to work effectively the waste disposal has to be handled properly. The lack of proper waste disposal can contribute for the underdevelopment of the community. For instance, in poorer community that does not have resources to dispose of the trash properly create a series of problems. For example, when there are a lot of trashes in a community, it will prevent investors to invest in a community, the housing market, schools and stores will decline, in consequence the houses will loose its value. This will create a ripple effect because people will start immigrating toward a better place where it is much cleaner. Families will try to move to a better place where their kids can have a better future. I ask myself who wants to live in a dirty environment? I hope nobody. That’s why I believe that the government should help the poorest communities about the ways to handle waste disposal, and better educate them about recycling.