Essays on Solid Waste Management

Timeline

February-March Idea Source: Macpherson, I., & Dunlop, A. (2016). Development of a Systematic Approach to Post-Operation Clean Out at Sellafield. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Preparation for Decommissioning-PREDEC 2016, 47(18), (pp. 465-483). Lyon, France: IAEA.

Peers’ Comments

Comments from the group discussions had an impact on the development of the proposal. Kristin Ball Kristina Ball thought that the proposal was too broad and suggested scaling it down to a local renewable energy project within the locality since renewable energy on a wide scope such as a country is a huge undertaking. Also, she thought of addressing Shared Renewable in a ...

Executive Summary

The hotel industry is an important sector in any economy. An increase in the number of tourists often leads to growth in revenue. However, this increase often adds the amount of solid waste, a factor which is likely to affect the hotel industry negatively due to environmental pollution. Ineffective waste management practices have forced hotels to incur substantial expenses. Traditional practices of waste management have led to the dumping of waste materials on roadsides, landfills and in oceans leading to environmental pollution, health hazards, and acidification of soil. Hotels need to come up with effective waste management practices which ...

{Author Name [first-name middle-name-initials last-name]} {Institution Affiliation [name of Author’s institute]} Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) commonly referred as garbage or trash includes waste from durable good (such as furniture, tires), non-durable goods (like plastic and paper cups, newspapers, etc.), packaging waste (cartons, plastic wrap, etc.) and yard and food wastes. MSW is the common wastes from household, office and retails spaces. MSW does not include industrial and hazardous waste. The handling of MSW is a growing concern across all the countries, in United States Food and Yard Waste constitute of approximately 28% of MSW followed by paper waste ( ...

Environmental Management System (EMS) is a constantly evolving concept, aiming to regulate human activities in order to prevent the nature from degradation. Each EMS has generic components like policy, planning, procedures and controls, training and education, communication, assessment and improvement (Williams, P.W. and Todd, S.E., 1997). According to Todd S.E. (1996) evolution of sustainable tourism “from concept to practice” can be divided into three stages: stage one includes the development of principles on environmental management, stage two concerns sustainable practice like greening programs in tourism industry, stage three is environmental auditing. The highest point of sustainable tourism evolution should ...

Research Rationale

Although the recovery of energy from wastes is not a new idea, its implementation continues to be challenging in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). Also, as a result of economic development, increasing population, and industrialization, the problems arising from expanded consumption and reduced resources have become more serious than ever (Tõnissoo, 2012). This paper provides a proposal for using recyclable waste as a transport fuel in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The rationale for this proposal is that if wastes are used to generate fuel for transport, there will be many advantages accrued from such a venture. ...

Global Waste Management Issues

Introduction Human activities and various other things produce waste. This production of high amounts waste and the way such wastes are handled, collected, stored and disposed of, which can pose risks to public health and the environment. Where extreme human activities concentrate such as in urban centers, safe and appropriate solid waste management is of utmost importance in order to allow healthy living conditions for the population . The issues of waste management and its disposal are not just problems of a specific nation or a city. It is a serious problem at a global level, which calls for immediate ...

Abstract

Maintaining a highly effective waste management system is an important part of being a clean and green city. While this may not be the top priority for some countries, especially the developing ones—because keeping a clean and green city can be costly; there are countries that are making long term investments for a more effective waste management system in the future. This can be evidenced by the fact that even countries like Qatar and the city of Dubai are finding it hard to find the political and economic will to develop and enforce environmental law and regulations. If ...

Introduction

All the actions and activities involved in managing the waste from its generation to its final disposal is called the waste management. It is the precise name given to the monitoring, collection, transportation and disposal of waste. Human activities are responsible for the production of so much waste every year, so, the management of waste is necessary to avoid its adverse effect on the environment and human health. Waste can also be managed to get resources from it. All kinds of waste like solid, liquid, gaseous and radioactive matter needs to be managed. Developed and Developing countries may have ...

INTRODUCTION

Solid wastes are everything that we throw away daily as unwanted materials. They are also referred to as trash, garbage, refuse, waste materials, and or rubbish. Solid waste is normally considered as an eye sore and at times the stench rising out of a heap of garbage is unpleasant. The first source of solid waste is our residential complexes, sanitation residue, construction debris and street waste which constitute the municipal solid waste. Secondly there are wastes that arise from industrial plants and mining sites. Thirdly are garbage that come up as a result of biomedical or hospital treatment and immunization human. ...