With hard work and penalties including taxes for not following the rules, it is possible to significantly reduce the waste Spero Hills produces. “Reducing waste is not any single technology, program, or policy. It is a goal, a process, and a vision that shifts how we think about and use resources: it is a whole-system approach that targets a major change in the way materials flow through our economy” (The Problems with Waste). The risks associated with this type of solution is that if everyone is not actively participating and committed, reducing the waste produced is not possible. The benefits of having all discarded items recycled, reused or composted, are many including, the reducing the cost associated with waste removal, helping the environment, …show more content…
Trash burning plants and landfills contribute to pollution. By focusing on recycling, reusing and composting, the need for trash burning plants and landfills will be eliminated and therefore the level of pollution will be reduced. Public health also can be improved, by eliminating trash burning sites and landfills and reducing the potential spread of disease. Landfills are not safe locations, so the general safety of the population also should be improved. By eliminating the need for landfills, more land will be available for positive use. Recycling plants will be needed as well as locations to share no longer wanted items to be reused by others. Composting can be done on a local level and even completed on one’s property if room exists. The proposed waste solution will have a positive impact on our city and the benefits far outweigh the …show more content…
This solution centers around reducing needless consumption, minimizing waste, maximizing recycling, and incentivizing the manufacturing of products that can be intentionally reused, repaired, or recycled back into the marketplace” (The Problems With Waste). We are following the waste management success of past cities and have the following recommendations to reduce the cost and maximize the positive impact on our environment and city (The Problems With Waste). 1) Devote resources on the state level to recycling & reuse programs, and increasing recycling incentives for companies and consumers alike (will reduce costs). 2) Ensure that recycling facilities are widely available and mandate recycling programs where possible (especially for businesses, etc.). 3) Create a market for recycled materials. Jobs are created for sorting materials and creating goods to re-enter the economy. 4) Require companies to produce products with minimum or recyclable packaging, and phase out toxic ingredients in favor of safer alternatives. 5) Mandate manufacturer take-back provisions, to reuse components in new products. Companies should be responsible for their waste. 6) Reduce the number of landfills and incinerators, restrict expansions, and strengthen the
...es, and way of doing so is by recycling some of it. The problem with recycling is that it is not a task for the homeowners to take on, it is a task for the government as well. The public has been sent confusing messages about the importance of recycling. Although they are constantly reminded of the importance of it, the government has done little to ease the process. New York has less than 1000 recycling containers, a tiny amount when compared to the over 30,000 wastebaskets around the city (NYC’s Comprehensive Solid Waste Management Plan).
Most people have heard of recycling and reuse, but many people think that recycling is only something “Mother Nature lovers” and “tree huggers” do to feel good about themselves. What they do not know is that it is economically advantageous, and environmentally beneficial. In fact, it is a very efficient and simple way for everyone to help save the earth, and a lot of money.
One of the benefits of requiring people to recycle, is the reduction in the sizes, and numbers of landfills. “Recycling and composting diverted nearly 70 million tons of material away from landfills and incinerators in 2000, up from
The White House Task Force projected that 195 million cubic yards of materials were prevented from entering landfills in 2005 due to recycling, an amount equivalent to the space of 92 large landfills. This just supports that recycling in our nati...
There are already ways of getting rid of garbage so people won’t have to see it or smell it. For example there is incineration, in which trash that can’t be recycled is burned. Although this meets the requirements mentioned above it has a downside. The burning itself causes waste and eventually it will have a bad effect on the environment. Recycling is a good process that reuses materials so they won’t be wasted and cause waste. But many products are not recyclable, like plastics.
In the 1870’s, plastic was discovered in the United States when John Wesley Hyatt was trying to create a different material to make billiard balls (Manrich, 3). Little did he know it would majorly evolve into material we use everyday. However, plastics are now taking over our landfills. The average American throws away one-hundred and eighty-five pounds of plastic a year (Popescu, 121). The answer to decrease this statistic is easy: recycling. I believe that recycling will help eliminate littering and the growth of landfills, while also creating jobs for the unemployed. Not only does recycling plastic help eliminate littering, but also reuses the plastic so there is not a production of additional unneeded plastics. The
Composting has almost seemed like a new trend over the past decade or so, but it really is one of the biggest solutions to the trash problem that humans have discovered. As God said about our bodies coming from the dust and to dust they shall return, food and other materials that have been produced by land should be returned to land so that the cycle may con...
Policy is needed to regulate which course of action should be taken and how it should be implemented. Because of this, many plans and policies revolving around the management of solid waste have been put in place. Sometimes however, a particular policy can have its shortfalls, potentially resulting in its negative aspects outweighing the positive ones. According to the Conference Board of Canada Report, “Canadians dispose of more municipal solid waste per capita than any other country” (2013). Solid waste management in particular, involves many aspects, ranging from packaging waste, food waste, etc. (White & Franke 1999), hence, the following analysis revolves around household and commercial waste – referred to as Municipal Solid Waste (White & Franke. 1999) – in the Greater Vancouver Regional District. Municipal waste is a major health and environmental concern as it contributes to numerous problems like habitat destruction, surface groundwater pollution, and other forms of air, soil, and water contamination. Waste disposal methods like incineration create toxic substances, and landfills emit methane, which contributes to global warming. According to the Zero Waste Objective Report, “The impact of climate change and the increasing awareness of the role of “waste” and “wasting” in the production of greenhouse gas emissions is a constant environmental pressure… (2009). This leads to an increasing limitation of government to prevent and control the volume and toxicity of products in the waste stream and a growing need to shift responsibility to the product manufacturer.
As humanity develops new technology, the magnitude and severity of waste increases. When computers were developed, it widely was believed that the need for paper would be eliminated. On the contrary this was widely proven false and we are now utilizing more paper than ever. Canada is not an exception as the typical Canadian generates an average of three pounds of solid waste each day1. This alone shows what a careless species we have become- using and disposing materials without even considering the damage we are causing. With half a trillion tones of waste around the world, only 25% may be reused for a second or third time and less than 5% can be renewed limitlessly1. These facts are true only in developed countries. Since these traditional waste reduction methods have been proven inefficient, we must endorse new innovative technology to arrive at a solution.
The United States produces “about 8.25 billion tons of solid wastes each year” (Russell 1). People do not realize the impact they have on our planet and environment. When people throw anything in the trashcan, they are contributing to the destruction of our planet. The number landfills in the United States are decreasing, but the amount and volume of waste being thrown into the new landfills is increasing (Russell 4). Because of this escalating amount of garbage, Methane which contributes to global warming is an outcome of these landfills (Russell 7). As a result, our planet is suffering because of this epidemic. The garbage being put in the landfills could be recycled, but not enough businesses, ...
Preserving the environment is very important. One way that would be possible is by recycling. Recycling is the recovery and reprocessing of waste materials for use in new products. There are important environmental and economic benefits connected with recycling. Common materials that are recycled consist of aluminum cans, glass, paper, wood, and plastic (“Recycling”). Cleveland, Ohio joined the ranks of requiring recycling and also fines the homeowners for not disposing of waste correctly or leaving cans out too early or too long (McElroy 1). Michele McCay says that recycling is one of the easiest, most tangible ways of taking action for the planet (par. 1). If that is the case, why is it not required in all states? Recycling should be mandatory because it saves natural resources, it conserves energy, and it reduces pollution.
Recycling is important in the effort to preserve our environment for future generations. We are running out of locations to put landfills. Recycling is a simple and effective way to reduce the amount of waste stored in landfills, yet many people do not know how easy it can be. For example, whenever I go to Shoprite® and I b...
Efficient waste managing approaches help with reducing and avoiding unpleasant impact on the environment and human health, while allowing financial development and progress in the quality of people’s life. People do not even imagine what is the size and capacity of their activities and the impact they produce on the environment. Garbage is an important ecological problem. It is seems amazing that approximately all of the citizens of the world identify rubbish as a major environmental problem and yet these people still litter. According to the Environmental Protection Agency (2008), an American produces 250 million tons of garbage per year (para.2). There are different circumstances that are based on the society, environmental conditions, occupation and size of each of the different family. As Richmond (2010) stated, if no administration organizations has the responsibility or resources to concentrate their efforts on the waste disposal, then the responsibility to do that is on ...
Wastes are the products of our consumptions in our daily life routines such as lunch, work, school and other things we do. Little things such as throwing out a piece of paper, we are producing waste by the seconds. After we consume a product we usually throw out what’s left that can’t be consumed any further. Results in producing waste, substance that are born after it’s been use or consume by us. At the end of each day we throw out a bag full of garbage, all of the materials in that bag (paper towels, cans, leftover foods and many other material’s) all of these are waste. Hospitals produce medical waste such as use needles for treating patients. Corporations produce papers, plastics, tires, steels, cans and many other type of solid waste which contribute to the pollutions that cause health risk and other environmental issues.
Recycling is such a fantastic way for us to reuse the waste we once throw. Yet, not everything is easy to be done in this world. There many difficulties that face recycling process economically and socially. Usually In order to recycle, waste paper needs to be sorted and treated from any Impurities. Which means that companies will loss finance because there must be someone or something that could sort or treat these papers. Another problem is that to start recycling, companies needs a lot of good recyclable supply to pick it up; after all, they need good economic benefits (Problems with Recycling, 2014). According to the Waste and Resources Action Program, there are some barriers p...