Nowadays, an average of 25,000 tonnes of solid waste were disposed of daily because of human activities of domestic households, commercial and manufacturing business and construction sites in the territory. This tells an imminent land pollution problem in Hong Kong. To deal with this problem, I discover three solutions. The three possible solutions will be increasing the number of recycling bins, landfill expansion and building more incinerators. The best remedy of the problem of land pollution will be building more incinerators.
The second solution might be for the Environmental Protection Department to increase the number of recycling bins. As the recycling method might help to decrease the number of municipal solid waste in Hong Kong, increasing the number of recycling bins may be the best method to release the serious situation of land pollution in Hong Kong.
However, some people may believe that increasing the number of recycling bins would not be able to deal with the land pollution because of the high recycling cost and low degree of environmental awareness of citizens.
First, the recycling cost would be too high. When start a business of recycling, we need to afford the high transportation fee, sundry expenses and the price of raw materials. Take plastic as an example, the cost of recycling is $6000 per tonne, but the selling price of recycled plastic is $3000 per tonne. As the cost of recycling is the double of the selling price, there will be a lost. This would lead to lower investment incentive and fewer people are willing to devote capital to the recycling industry. Therefore, only few companies could survive in Hong Kong market and this shows the recycling industry in Hong Kong decline nowadays. Although the Envir...
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...y incineration in the past few years. It seems that using incineration might not be a good idea, but if we have a regular inspections of incinerators to ensure the plants can meet the required safety standard, the occurrence of accidents would be greatly reduced. Also, the government could provide more training scheme to the workers who operate the incinerators, because practice makes perfect.
In conclusion, building more incinerators would generate more renewable energy source and greatly decrease the size of original waste. Although some people might argue that during incineration many air pollutant and safety concerns may come up, government could impose the gas cleaning system of waste incinerators and educate the workers. If the government and factories can cooperate well, building more incinerators would be the best solution to the problem of land pollution.
Consequently, new techniques to deal with garbage have been attempted.. Recycling is but one example of a solution. Through recycling, old products like aluminum cans and glass bottles would be made into new products. While recycling has enjoyed success in the United States, many question its efficiency. Other suggestions range from shipping garbage to other areas to incineration. All these proposals to the garbage problem go under such scrutiny and examination in an effort to achieve some perfect solution to the disposal problem.
In conclusion to this investigation one thing is clear and that is that recycling reeks benefits to the environment, Recycling material when compared to making material from raw material is a more efficient energy saving and more environmentally friendly way to reuse material that is usually consider as trash such as empty glass, and plastic bottles, or old newspapers. Recycling helps reduce the possible carbon emissions greatly and does reduce the human carbon footprint. But Recycling doesn’t resolve the pollution that is around the world today. Leading to new questions, questions like what about the landfills are they sustainable, and if so for how long. How long until the air becomes unbreathable? How long until Earth becomes its own furnace?
Recycling can have a large impact on the way we produce our everyday products. Recycling helps the environment by conserving the natural resources we use everyday. Since the
Recycling means converting waste into usable things. However, does it really help to make a change? The things you do to clear up all your wastes, separate paper from plastic and glass and metal. Some probably would assume that recycling is helping their community and protecting the environment. But is it? Are you in fact wasting your time? There are still many people out there who does not even know what recycling is about. They don’t care throwing their waster randomly. Some people belief that keeping some things for a longer time without giving them away for recycling will be valuable in future. In some places people have no idea about recycling, they just throw away the waste or even burn them. This is just another cause of the environmental
In today’s world, “the U.S. manages to produce a quarter of the world’s waste despite the fact that its population of 300 million is less than 5% of the world’s population, according to 2005 estimates (Malone).” In other words, countries like China and India, which represent 37 percent of the world’s population combined, produce less waste than the United States alone. Many people believe that just by throwing away trash in each correct bin will help the recycling process. Almost every city in Los Angeles County has a different trash bin for different usage i.e. greenery, plastic, and cardboard. These trash bins are extremely effective when it comes to recycling plastic, however what happens after the bin has been collected is more important.
If everyone recycled think of how much more space there would be in landfills across the world. There is only so much room on this earth and we are using a huge portion of it for our trash. Clearlake, California alone on a busy day can bring in 80,000 pounds of trash to the local dump. I know this because I work at the local dump in Mckinleyville. I also see a lot of people that throw away their recycling for the simple reason of being too lazy to sort it. I watch bag after of bag of plastic, aluminum, and glass get thrown into the bin which we haul straight to a landfill in Anderson, California. If everyone in Mckinleyville recycled there plastic, aluminum and glass they could save thousands of pounds a day from going to the landfill. I think people are not informed that waste is a big problem in this world. But in fact conservation is an issue, and resources and energy aren't too plentiful. Someday these resources are going to run out. But the more we recycle the longer we can make these resources last.
First of all, it costs way too much.Did you know that recycling costs almost double the amount of money it takes just to make it again? Well, it does, and Recycling, What a Waste of Time, says, “ I know that the cost of recycling exceeds its benefit. This is the simple result of the observation that recycling does not return a financial profit.” This is because of many things. Now, people
The first reason recycling is bad is because it is not always cost effective because sometimes there may be a need to establish separate factories to process reusable products. This mean that it may create more pollution as they would go under the process of cleaning and transportation. “Recycled products are not of durable quality, because they are made of trashed waste picked up from other waste products, so recycled products are cheap and last for shorter periods.” (www.conserve-energy-future.com) Others may say by recycling you can prevent our country from being buried
Our world is getting to the point to where we will be surrounded by trash. There are hazards happening because of the excess trash, which could have been recycled. Although the government is not doing their best to make these hazards stop, surprisingly it is the non-governed organizations that are trying to make the difference. Proven studies and facts have been made about these issues, so people should take this into consideration and start recycling more. Recycling is a beneficial process that is not required globally like it should be because citizens are uneducated on the process and what it can do. People who are not recycling do not know the hazards they are causing everywhere.
Inconceivable quantities of garbage plague our planet however, “Recycling is one of the best ways for you to have a positive impact on the world in which we live. Recycling is important to both the natural environment and us. We must act fast as the amount of waste we create is increasing all the time” ("Recycling Is Important"). Incidentally, a huge portion of the trash regularly ending up in landfills is recyclable. Had the garbage simply been put into a recycling bin instead of a trash can, there would be a sensational impact, conserving landfills, money, energy, natural resources, and even attributing to job growth. For instance, various plastics and paper materials monopolize a majority of landfill space, both of which are easily recyclable. However, when paper products are instead simply thrown away, additional trees must be cut down, more money has to be spent, as well as more gas and energy being required. Additionally, plastics are produced by a process which uses nonrenewable oils and natural gasses. Once they are inevitably thrown away they continue to cause damage as they virtually never biodegrade. Moreover, other materials such as aluminum have the potential to be recycled numerous times, potentially saving countless resources if they are responsibly
The waste incineration benefits us because as we burn the waste it creates energy to heat our homes and generate electricity.
Imagine you are on vacation on a cruise having a great time. You look around and see the ocean is covered with garbage. According to Discovermagazine.com, there are patches of garbage present in the middle of the oceans. If you collect all garbage in the oceans, it would be double in height to Mount Everest. According to climatechange.com, if we do not act immediately, not recycling is going to affect our environment. Refusing to recycle the waste materials would poison the food and water we use, leading to our death. Recycling affects the earth more than we can imagine. We’ve got be more aggressive towards reducing and reusing the waste material, as there is an increase in the amount of garbage production.
Lots of people consider recycling to be kind of a no-brainer, something we all should do. It’s good for the environment, it re-uses materials rather than creates new ones, it reduces landfills -- the list goes on and on. But one major benefit that people often overlook is the impact recycling programs can have on a community.
Solid waste pollution will always be an issue as long as human population increases everyday .solid waste is not only cause by household only, the industries as well have hand on environment pollution. And due to improper disposal system solid waste end up on the road. Solid waste have a huge effect on human life and can also cause death in animals as well, as people clean their houses everyday litter their trash everywhere this problem will not stop. But the most dangerous waste are those coming from the industries, because those waste end up in stream, rivers where it poisonous and have bad impact on the marine life. Industrial waste are the source of toxic metal and hazardous waste that effect soil characteristic and productivity of soil when dumped in ground. And the problem lies where some of the waste do not decompose. These solid waste are hazardous, Pesticides poisonous which is not health and life threatening to both humans and animals. People are very much aware of recycling to reduce pollution yet they still fail in doing so. Silt build in freshwater water ecosystems, caused by the unnecessarily agricultural activities smothers aquatic organisms. To reduce solid waste they should be recycled in such a way that do not harm the both the environment, water, air and human health. There are animals such as
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