Essays on Flanders

The Role of EPR in Sustainable Waste Management

Introduction The problem of the disposal of end-of-life or waste tyres has become a serious problem in the whole world including the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)— Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Qatar, Bahrain and Oman. It is a problem that has largely been ignored in the past. Waste tyres were used largely as landfill. The environmental, health and economic hazards are only realized when problems—like fires arise. In the Kirby Tire Recycling dump near the village of Sycamore in Wyandot County, Ohio, USA, a fire burned a tyre landfill spread across 14 acres in August ...

The struggle for independence is not a new topic in Europe as the region’s history depicts a myriad of conflicts that occurred for the sake of independence from monarchies and the desire for self-governance. Throughout the past centuries, larger European empires broke down into smaller states while others merged to their partners or faded entirely. However, even after the Great Wars have ended, there were still factions hoping to separate themselves from their respective countries in the hopes of reestablishing their identities prior to their inclusion to larger countries. Catalonia, for instance, has been actively working on pushing ...

Just the sound of the words murder or killing someone tells us that something is wrong. The thoughts and feelings we get after learning that someone has been killed, proves to us that killing is very wrong. Therefore, how can we be comfortable with passing a law that supports the death penalty? The death penalty is a legal procedure whereby the state executes a person as a punishment for the crimes/offenses he/she has committed (Kaufman 546). Therefore, when the capital punishment law is not abolished, it means that we will see many murders of people who this sentence has ...

. According to Frayn Florence was one of the main sources of the renaissance (9). The city was armed with wealth that was created by a strong trade of Wool and an efficient banking system. In essence, Wool industry in Florence Italy was known to uplift many banking institutions for many years in Italy for many decades. The investment made on the textile industry specifically from wool carried over 10% of the industry. Beyond any doubt if similar to Weber or Sombart, one wishes to describe the period as a sort of financial structure, in correlation with the kind displayed ...