Waste Management College Essays Samples For Students

The legal and ethical environment of business

Business environment is the combination of the factors that influence company's operating either internally or externally. This covers a variety of the issues in the business sector. It ranges from the business owner to the final consumer of the product produced. The environmental factors include clients and suppliers, competitors and owners, law and government activities, market and social trends.
Legal and ethical issues in the business are major concerns to the wellbeing of the coexistence of the mutual relationship of the players in the sector. To begin with, the disposal of the waste product and the pollution monitoring are Continue reading...

A Growing Concern in Today's EnvironmentThe article Electronic Waste: A Growing concern in Today’s Environment starts by showing stating how, there has been major developments observed in the sphere technology improvement and production over the years. As a result, the scale of electronics market has become wider and wider and spins up from day to day. According to Consumer Electronic Association, consumers purchased 800 million units of consumer electronics in 2012 "in the United States". Households in US spends approximately $1506 per year on hardware alone. Accordingly, there to improve on the efficiencies of their products in order Continue reading...

Illustrative Essay: Americans are not a Wasteful People

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Illustrative Essay: Americans are not a Wasteful People

Introduction

The United States of America is one amongst the world’s leading developed countries. The States are highly industrialized and its citizens enjoy benefits of innovation, technology, health care and high standards of living. However, being a high income and high industry country the USA produces a large amount of waste as well. Reports are published about the high waste generation per person per year, and USA ranks the top most in these statistics. However, such statistics do not paint the complete picture of the waste production and management Continue reading...

FASB Codifications

ASC 205- Presentation of Financial Statements
ASC 25- Discontinued Operations
ASC 45- Other Presentation Matters
1) It can be classified as a reportable segment, operating segment, a reporting unit, subsidiary or an asset group. Important to note, to be clearly distinguished, operationally and for financial reporting purposes, from the rest of the entity is the component of an entity which it comprises operation and cash flows.
2) Conditions for reporting discontinued component:
Important to note that if an organization that has disposed of, or classified the component of an entity as ‘held for sale’, wants to report it as Continue reading...

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The modern United States economy relies on fossil fuels for up to 82% of the overall energy supply. This energy supports industrial processes, commercial and residential, and transportation purposes. Oil accounts for 34% of the overall energy demand, coal accounts for 39%, natural gas represents 27%, hydropower accounts for 7%, while nuclear energy accounts for 19% (United States Energy Department, 33). However, in terms of net energy consumption, fossil fuels accounted for 67.5% while other energy sources; that is, nuclear and other renewable energy sources, such as hydro-power and wind-energy accounted for 32.5% in 2013 (United States Energy Department, Continue reading...

Introduction

Waste management is an important part of managing an economy and this applies to every country, including Qatar. Trash or garbage can be collected from residential, commercial, and industrial buildings. Basically, every business and lifestyle operations that occur within a city or a state leads to the creation of garbage. Over time, the garbage that are produced as a result of basic residential, commercial, and industrial activities could lead to the accumulation of garbage on traditional garbage storage spaces (e.g. landfills), and garbage incinerators (which by the way could present as a potent environmental risk). If these garbage-containing strategies Continue reading...

Medical wastes are liquids and solid wastes that arise during the treatment, diagnosis, of human beings or animals. They may also arise during research while testing biological material. They are classified into two different categories that include communal waste, and biomedical waste. When the wastes are poorly managed, they result to economic and environmental costs for residents of a certain geographical area. These wastes have adverse effects on the environment and require being disposed safely through a well defined medical waster management system. The defined waste management system entails the number in which the medical waste is collected, sorted, Continue reading...

Business Memo

Re: OIS operations project
There are a lot of pharmaceutical companies, doing great job in manufacturing lifesaving drugs. A person working in such an organization would have to come in contact with a lot of chemicals. Also, waste generated from such industry is more hazardous, since most of these are chemical and liquid waste. (As well as gasses)
This is a report of how the department of health, safety and environment handles all these waste products, and provides with a clean environment surrounding the organization.

REPORT ON A TOUR TO A PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY

My contact person was Mr. Thomas Gregory, who explained to me that waste management, Continue reading...

According to Gardner (2004), 1.3billion tons of Municipal solid Waste is being generated around the globe each year, a volume that is expected to increase due to mass consumption, rapid urbanization, and throw away lifestyles that have become more widespread worldwide. The volume of Municipal solid waste is expected to double by the year 2025 due to prosperity and urbanization especially in the developing countries. With this trend, cities around the world are expected to experience serious environmental and health challenges. To most countries waste is not regarded as a resource and hence stands as an indicator of economic Continue reading...

Questions that I would ask myself to ensure that I used critical thinking in when conducting my research and problem analysis.
- What is the extent and what are the similarities of the community illness between both the adults and the children?
- When was the onset of the particular illness?
- Is everyone exhibiting the same symptoms?
- Has everyone who has the symptoms visited the same vicinity or location?

Strategies I would employ in investigating this problem

I would personally interview every single child or adult affected by the illness to collect some crucial information for my research of attempting to determine the nature of Continue reading...

Introduction

Houston is among the key cities in the South particularly in Texas where major government infrastructures such as the NASA space station was established. However, the city just like any other place in America is also facing with several dilemmas ranging from social to political and environmental. Recent reports revealed that the city of Houston is on its way of implementing a new recycling project that city officials believe would support the reduction of greenhouse emission, garbage collection and other environmental risks entailed by inefficient waste management. One of the objectives of the new project is the so-called “One Continue reading...

Fortune telling is an appealing concept. Wouldn’t it be nice to know what lies in store for you ahead so that you can prepare for it and deal with it appropriately? Many people are drawn to the idea, having their palms read, seeing fortune tellers, even using magic 8 balls. One interesting method of fortune telling is tarot.
A tarot card reader is a type of fortune teller, but they are limited by what the cards tell them. The deck consists of 78 cards, split into two groups: the Major Arcana and the Minor Arcana. The Major Arcana Continue reading...

The writing is about Nuclear energy and the advantages and disadvantages it offers over other means, ways and sources of power generation like Hydroelectric plants, coal powered power plants etc. The organization pattern being used here is Problem-method-solution, which puts across problems first and then proposes effective and useful solutions.
Nuclear energy is a way of creating heat through the fission process of atoms. The power plants covert heat into electricity using steam. (USNRC, 2012). Nuclear energy has been used for quite sometime by many developed and developing countries to meet their power and energy requirements. Like all other Continue reading...

Abstract

This paper is aimed at analyzing the need for well planned construction waste management in developed as well as developing countries. For this purpose, four journal articles were reviewed and their findings analyzed. Of these, two articles discussed waste management from the perspective of developed countries while the other two were written in the context of developing countries. The analysis revealed that the immediate needs and goals of developing and developed countries to manage their construction waste greatly differed. As such, the approach towards waste management also varied. However, the need for waste disposal to be well planned and Continue reading...

Summary – Response:

Thomas L. Friedman’s “The Earth Is Full”
Part 1: Summary

The article written by Friedman (2011) entitled “The Earth Is Full” and published online in The New York Times presented pressing global concerns that faces the Earth in contemporary times. The main issues addressed to readers of various endeavors emphasized that global environmental crises have begun to increase in frequently and intensity; the natural resources of the Earth are being irresponsibly consumed at significantly faster pace; and that eventually, the Earth could possible not support and sustain life, if no concrete action would be done to address controllable Continue reading...

Sanitation refers to the safe disposal of human excreta (Mara, Lane and Scott and Trouba, 1). This entails the hygienic disposal and treatment of human waste to avoid affecting the health of people. Sanitation is an essential part of the Millennium Development Goals. The most affected countries are in the developing world (Zawahri, Sowers, and Weinthal 1153). Population increase in the developing world has posed challenges in the improvement of sanitation (Konteh 69). According to Zawahri, Sowers, and Weinthal (1154), lack of provisions of basic sanitation is estimated to have contributed to the deaths of approximately 3.5 million people Continue reading...

The small coastal settlement of Waihi Beach experienced floods on Tuesday resulting from long rains recorded in the area. However, the residents and holidaymakers in the area blamed the flooding on inadequate drainage system for floods and the development of a new hilltop sub-division. According to Meteorological spokesperson, the nearby weather station recorded a high of 50ml of rain in duration of 24 hours. A holidaymaker at the beach reported that it was the fourth time he was experiencing flooding despite the fact that he had elevate his tent 20 cm above ground level.

A resident at the beach Continue reading...

The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)

NEPA was created due to the increased concern and appreciation about wildlife and ecological system during the 1969. It is an environmental law that sought to promote environmental care through the establishment of a national policy. The Act seeks to lay done specific environmental goals and policies (Bass, Bogdan & Bass 2001). Secondly it provided for the formation of implementation and enforcement for the provided policies through relevant federal agencies. Finally, the Act, provided for the creation of Council on Environmental Quality attached to the President’s Office. The CEQ role is to advise the President on national status on Continue reading...

Dependence of man on environment

The current world’s concerned is the environment where every living and non-living things live. Pollution has been taken as one of the biggest problems we have in the world but people don’t take it serious. We have witnessed a lot of climatic changes due to pollution which mostly affects the surroundings. Due to industrial revolution, the environment has been polluted by the waste products from these industries and factories (Turk, 2011). There are many good ways of preventing and controlling such wastes products from interfering with our environment but people have ignored them thus putting our lives Continue reading...

Chemical Weapon Disposal

According to NRCCRECSDP (2000), chemical weapon disposal has been done in the past through sea disposal, land burial, explosion and open pit burning/incineration. However the decomposition of such chemicals has been founded to pose a significant environmental, public health threats resulting to land and water contamination. Thus, as much as the government has made the decision on disposing the chemical weapons there are some unanswered questions like how should the government dispose off the chemicals in a way that is safe for the environment and the surrounding population.
Many citizen groups like Sierra club and Greenpeace have seriously opposed Continue reading...

Environmental Threat: Recycling

Recycling has been identified as one of the solutions to the growing environmental threat especially in terms of waste management. Environmentalist calculates that around 60% of the world waste materials could be recycled which would greatly reduce the waste pollution. (Environmental-Green.org) Recycling can have a big impact on the earth’s resources and waste management.
Environmentalists have been campaigning for the use recycled or eco-friendly materials. Different organizations had put up centers that help people to earn while recycling. Companies, have also resort to recycling to improve their consumption of resources. The world wide campaign on recycling have been Continue reading...

WASTE DISPOSAL

Global Warming: Waste Disposal

For decades, the problem of climate change has gradually changed the outlook of different nations due to the life-threatening effects of allowing it to continue. From basic items people use every day to the return of these items back to the earth to reuse or destroy, climate change can be produced in this endless cycle. Depending on the country’s laws and ordinances pertaining to proper procedure in reducing climate change, the percentage of one’s contribution to it differs. Waste disposal, although not a job many would bother understanding due to the gross nature Continue reading...

Introduction – what is waste?

Waste is undoubtedly one of man’s biggest problems but it can also be turned into a distinct advantage if cards are played right. In later years, the amount of waste has grown to incredible levels, especially in developed countries where several landfill sites and rubbish bins are full to almost bursting point. With more and ore consumerism on the rise, the amount of packaging waste is a distinct problem with huge amounts of toxic fumes emanating from burnt plastics and suchlike causing harm to the environment.
Waste is obviously not only domestic but there is also the problem Continue reading...

Army field sanitation is important for a number of reasons. First, it can significantly reduce the number of hospital visits and level of emergency care needed for personnel due to conditions brought on by poor hygiene. It can also increase morale and general unit attitudes, making them more actively present in the task at hand and keeping their spirits up. The presence of a skilled unit field sanitation team can keep the troops medically fit through the simple actions of keeping their environment as clean as possible.

Disease and nonbattle injury (DNBI) is a significant problem among battlefield units, Continue reading...

Incineration is the process of disposing solid wastes through burning. When solid wastes are burned a number substances are released or emitted and some others remain as residues. The emitted materials include dioxins, organic carbon emissions, heavy metals, particulate matter and ashes.

Effects of Incineration

Exposure to these emissions cause reproductive defects, cancer and respiratory system ailment. It has also been shown that the emissions can accumulate on the leaves of food crops.
Even though the effects of these emissions in air are so hazardous, in water they form a neutral solution with the particulate matter settled Continue reading...

An industrial chemical is one of the toxic wastes that need to be disposed of properly. However, before disposal the effects of the chemical on the environment and its inhabitants must be assessed as well as the legality of the chemical. Once a chemical is declared legal by government, it can be disposed of in but prescribed location by the local government. In this case before hand if the chemicals were legal at the time of disposal, the individuals concerned cannot be held responsible for the damage that there arise.
Although the officers concerned, on the other hand, must Continue reading...

A large part of the processes related to the reverse logistics takes place in warehouses. Warehousing processes, related to reverse logistics can be categorised into goods receipt, inspection, sorting, stock keeping and transportation. Warehouses support returns management, remanufacturing, remarketing, recycling and disposal.

Return management is responsible for the recalls and return of products, which have not been sold. Remanufacturing is commonly done in the warehouse, where the product is repaired or separated into component parts after the end of its useful life, followed by further sale at a lower price. Remanufacturing is common in automotive and electronics industry. Remarketing Continue reading...

Waste Management

HAZWOPER stands for Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response. It is a standard meant to protect three employee populations: workers participating in operations at hazardous waste sites being decontaminated; those employed at hazardous waste treatment, storage and disposal facilities; and employees who are acting in response to emergencies concerning chemical spills or releases (Christian, Ellsworth, & Matthew, 2002). The major components of HAZWOPER are preliminary characterization and analysis of the site; monitoring activities on water, air and soil; training of employees; medical monitoring of the workers; and emergency disaster response if the activities at the site Continue reading...

Electronic waste management

Electronic waste means disposal of electronic appliances (McKenzie & Kotecki, 2008). Recycling is a good option because improper disposal is hazardous and may lead to health complications. A generation has increased rapidly causing global environmental problems. Certainly, technological is changing at a high rate and is expected to influence the electronic waste generation (Hester &Harrison, 2009). Therefore, it is here to stay with us since many appliances are expected to replace whatever exists increasing the electronic waste load.
A decade from today will attract businesses that renovate and recycle electric appliances with many companies anticipating Continue reading...

Incineration is a modern combustion technology where harmful wastes are transformed into gases and incombustible solid waste (Hester & Harrison, 1994). It is commonly used in burning municipal and industrial wastes. During incineration, there are factors that affect the quantities and composition of gases emitted. In considering the incinerator design, operation, and waster properties, the factors are (Rand et al., 2000): physical and chemical properties of waste; Combustion efficiency; and residency time.
Physical and chemical properties of waste determine the composition of gases emitted in the sense that if sulphur was a constituent in the waste, then the expected emissions Continue reading...

The practices of managing solid wastes in the United States of America have been improving substantially over the past two decades (CQ Research, 2009). The focus has been to change from primary activities of collection and disposing on land to a well developed range of methods directed at increasing recycling of wastes and recovery of energy. Several developments have been achieved through these methods, and it can therefore be argued that these practices have improved the situation to a large extent (CQ Researcher, 2009).

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In Houston, the management of solid waste is manned by the Solid Waste Management Department (SWMD) whose main functions include the provision of services to over 408,000 households in Texas through collecting, disposing and recycling of waste material in a way that is efficient, safe, cost effective and environmentally friendly (City of Houston, n.d.). MSW recycling in Houston is carried by Greenstar Recycling Company, which offers recycling solutions through commodity upgrades, recycle processing, commodity trading sectors of the solid waste market and managed services (MSW Management, 2010). Thus, it Continue reading...

The problem of chemical waste disposal has for a long time been a dilemma for the industrial sector. In ancient times, small industries, such as smelting and cloth making, had some wastes to dispose, and this was also a problem (Martin and Schinzinger 54). In modern industries, chemical engineering is a vital sector of each and every industry dealing with any chemical, either as a raw material, a byproduct, a product, or another item used in the production process.

Although several advances have been reached to improve chemical engineering in all industries, and laws are established to guide the Continue reading...

First and foremost, the European Union (EU) can be described as an organization of the countries found in Europe whose main aim is to foresee the management of its member states in terms of social, economic political and other sectors. In regard to release of waste products and management, release and discharge of hazardous materials; the European Union has stipulated several governing laws and rules which should be obeyed and complied with by its member states. It is very much important to note that these laws and regulations are to be implanted through legislation by Continue reading...

The beauty of the nature has been decreasing during the last two centuries due to massive human activity. Human activity has altered several aspects of nature especially due to the release of pollutants in the environment. The pollutants not only have a negative effect on the health of human beings but also to other forms of life that exist in the environment. Additionally, they have brought about a negative effect on the equilibrium of the ecosystem since artificial forces other than natural forces have taken over the control of the forces of nature. Human beings have also suffered due Continue reading...

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Building and Construction

Introduction
In this modern age of liberalization and globalization of tools and technologies, the growth of industry is by leaps and bounds. It is the result of efficient process and effective tools that have made it possible to achieve the Continue reading...

The History and Modernization of Poultry Inspection Systems in the United States and the Food Safety Hazards that are Being Diminished because of Those Systems

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The accessibility, health benefits and low cost have kept the demand for poultry consumption up and poultry slaughter production plants moving forward; however, up until recent years there has been a lack of quality inspection standards leading to an increased amount of food safety issues. The pathogens that contaminate raw poultry products for human consumption are an issue in the United States. There have been new advances in technology which has led to an Continue reading...

Introduction

In our time, we are used to satisfy our nutritional requirements by simply buying raw or cooked food products at grocery stores or restaurants. Nowadays we can access pretty much any type of food product even if is coming from remote locations at affordable prices. However, there is an extra price to pay: unprecedented amounts of liquid and solid residues continuously accumulate in our soil, air, and water resources as a result of activities associated with food production and consumption. At the consumption end of the food chain, farm products are processed and packaged, distributed and finally eaten. Each Continue reading...

Should Reducing Waste and Reusing Resources be considered a Priority when Designing a Product?

There was a misconception that one should not recycle and reuse refuse as it could cause health-related problems. They also felt that reusing refuse would only cause time and money constraints. Wastes such as plastic bottles and corrugated boxes used in packing, were used in landfill or burnt to remove them. Little importance was given to reuse these wastes, as they were felt to be useless. Similarly, no effort was made to study possible alternatives to disposing them. It all changed once the damage had been done, and its effects began to show on climate change.
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Question 1: Suncal's primary (market) stakeholders are their shareholders, their employees, vendors and potential home buyers and below market renters. The shareholders benefit from revenues which show up as dividends, The employees benefit from the company’s ability to generate income, and its vendors in turn benefit from a continued source of sales revenue, but also, potential Suncal home buyers, and below market renters.
Secondary or non-market stakeholders include The Disney Resort Group. Although The Disney Resort Group “Disney” is not involved in direct monetary exchanges with Suncal, they, as well as residents in the city of Anaheim could Continue reading...