Waste and Pollution

Waste is a world-wide problem, with food waste being the main contender. In the United

Since we already discussed electronics recycling, this consideration is for the waste management of municipal solid waste (MSW) – or everyday items. MSW is the everyday things we use and throw out in the office. This can include items such as packaging, grass clippings, old furniture, bottles, food scraps, and batteries. According to the EPAs annual report on MSW, Americans throw away about 4.3 pounds of waste per person, every day. Preventing waste should be considered as well as recycling and composting.

From farm to table getting our food and produce to the consumer is a tricky task. Even with all the planning millions of food ends up wasted a year. Many steps are already taken to reduce the amount of food being wasted but are they enough? In America alone 200 to 250 pounds is wasted per person per year! According the world resources institute “32 percent of the world’s food was never consumed in 2009”.

Envision the intriguing aromas and aspects of all the delectable, appetizing, and savory foods the world has to offer. Now imagine those foods being taken, scarcely eaten, and then banished to a life in the trash thereafter, where they cannot be consumed anymore. Now proceed to think about all of the resources, time, effort, and money that goes into producing food, it all would have been for nothing. Discarding edible food leads to billions of dollars of food lost, along with creating additional trash. Consumers can do simple things to create less food waste.

She sorted through the trash of several different categories of waste, trash, paper, plastic, and aluminum. Out of what she collected, “76% was not recyclable and 23% could be recycled” (page 1). In addition, Indiana State student, Matt McColley also did a research project on the waste production in the Lincoln Quads. Jeffery Mervis 2012 states, The United States, for example, produces roughly 12 billion tons of waste each year, of which only 350 million tons are classified as municipal solid waste” (p.668).

Recycling has turned into an undeniably vital issue in the United States as both the populace and the measure of waste all the people who creates to keep on increasing. Municipal solid waste (MSW) incorporates the items that are thrown into the bins, for example, old furniture, tires, or yard clippings. As indicated by a study by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Municipal solid waste generation expanded from 2.68 to 4.34 pounds for per person on every day between 1960 and 2009. Americans created around 243 million tons of MSW in

           One of the things that the average household can do to help decrease the amount of waste produced is by decreasing the amount of food that is purchased at a time. This would greatly decrease the amount of waste produced by people because the less that is bought, the less food that is likely to be thrown out. People in the U.S. have a tendency to over buy when they go

The EPA has a ‘Waste Management Hierarchy’ and it begins with reducing and reusing what we consume in order to reduce waste.

Canadians create a lot of waste. In 2008, Canadians produced over 1,031 kilograms of waste per person and overall sent approximately 26 million tons of waste for disposal to landfills or incinerators. The good news is the amount of materials diverted, using recycling and other diversion methods, increased by about 10% to almost 8.5 million tons during the last decade compared to an increase of 3% for total solid waste. Total current expenditures on solid waste management by local governments in Canada cost us approximately$2.6 billion in 2008. The majority, around $1.1 billion, was related to collection and transportation. Aside from using less, there are a number of reasons to process what we do use in different ways that are more economical and often profitable.

On average, Americans generate about 4 pounds of trash per person per day. (3) As Americans, we produce twice the amount of garbage than other countries and three times as much as we did in the past. Over half of the amount of trash we produce gets sent to landfills. The people who create the most trash are those that live in cities and wealthy individuals. When you live in a city, you consume more packaged goods and when you become more wealthy, you consume more products overall. (2) Unless we reduce the amount of trash we produce or find other ways to get

In 1970, when Americans produced 121 million tons of municipal solid waste (MSW), three-quarters went directly into landfills, one-fifth was incinerated, and less

As has been asserted in a lot of research, how to handle human waste could be a major issue. Human waste including food waste and body waste. The human body waste will be focused in this report. According to GENECO, there are 75 million m3 of human sewage have been creating every year in Bristol. The human body waste could contaminate water system and lead disease if they haven 't been treat appropriately. As Tearfund and WaterAid(2002) has pointed out, four out of ten people, 2.4 billion, are suffering from the disease caused by the issue of poor sanitation. Therefore, action on sanitation and re-think how to use the human body waste will make work more effective. In order to address the research question ‘is it possible that human body waste could be use as renewable energy ', the technology of composting human body waste will be investigated, data and case study will be analyzed in terms of energy consumption, water use and air pollution, finally, how to make human body waste as a useful substance and achieve sustainable lifestyle will be answer.

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

Waste Management, Inc., incorporated in 1968, had become a leader in the industry of waste management services ranging from industrial operations to curbside collection. This company had become synonymous with many different kinds of disposal services that allowed for the company to grow and grow with a solid base over the course of twenty-eight years. Finally in 1996, the company reported total assets of almost $20 billion with net income close to $200 million. However, even with this growth and solid base, the company was feeling competitive pressures and net income was on the decline.

According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), food wastage, “food produced and not eaten,” emits enough greenhouse gasses (GHG) to be ranked third amongst global emitters (FAO 2013, 6). In New York City (NYC) it is estimated that businesses “produce more than 650,000 tons of food waste annually” (Turso 2017). This specific food waste is classified as food scrap, cooked food which is still edible, but no longer useful to the business due to a myriad of reasons. Whatever the reason may be for the company, this tonnage of food has the potential and possibility of being recovered for redistribution to food banks, soup kitchens, and other food rescue organizations. For example, two of the largest organizations in NYC, City Harvest and Food Bank NYC, will collect around 59 million and 24 million pounds in 2017 respectively, of unprocessed/non-perishable food. This is equivalent to about 42 thousand tons or 6.5 percent of annual food waste from scraps. Despite having warehouses, fleets of vehicles, and numerous volunteers, two of the largest organizations barely make an impact on the total amount of food rescued versus food wasted.