...After the Second World War, landfilling was still the principal waste disposal method and rapid growth in consumption from 1960 onwards resulted in a larger municipal waste stream with a higher plastics content (Wolsink, 2010). Finally, the environmental movement of the 1960s and 1970s brought waste disposal onto the political agenda in industrialized countries (Wilson, 2010) which created a significant shift in policymakers’ perspectives on how to approach SWM. New legislation addressing water pollution and SWM emerged, initially targeting the elimination of uncontrolled disposal and subsequent SWM legislation increasingly raised environmental standards to reduce the contamination of land, air and water (Bingemer and Crutzen, 2011). The environmental movement acted as a primary driver of the policy stages from the 1970s onwards. SWM policy from the 1970s to mid-1980s focused on waste control, and was therefore characterized by measures such as the daily covering and compacting of landfills and retrofitting incinerators for dust control....
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...Waste Management- A Man-Environment Linkage ABSTRACT The paper discovers the conceptual relationship between the modern day waste and the management systems incorporated there in to control and take necessary measures. It discovers the Man – Environment relation in handling waste and related matters and establishes a causative relation between them throughout the ages in knowing the reasons. It highlights the rediscovery of the importance of this linkage and places the relationship in proper perspective with a long term focus in mind. Authors: 1. P.M. Prasad Assistant Professor, Oil and Gas Deptt Email add: pmprasad@ddn.upes.ac.in Contact Number: 8449520968 2. Dr. S.K.Pokhriyal Professor and Head of Deptt, Oil and Gas and Energy Trading Email add: spokhriyal@ddn.upes.ac.in Contact Number: 9997033383 Waste Management- A Man-Environment Linkage ‘ Waste’ is generally used to define any liquid or solid residue from site refinery operations, other than a petroleum product, for which there is economically no viable outlet and therefore needs to be managed via recycling , treatment of disposal. It therefore symbolizes the helplessness or the limitations of the technology at the hands of mankind to fully exploit the resource processing. This is understood that there exists an end point down the operational line. What is left to be judged is whether or how efficient has been the process in treating the products and what better...
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...Stewardship Organizations putting systems in place that will enable them to: Use resources efficiently Reduce waste and minimize on the negative impacts on the environment Translate reduced consumption and waste into financial savings Provide a healthy, more efficient and effective working environment 4 Defining Environmental Stewardship Embodies the concept of a Green Office, a Green School or Green Home which is conceptualized as smarter and better as it is: Ecological - using non-toxic, recycled, environmentally friendly products and supplies Efficient – using as little energy and other resources as possible and putting out the smallest amount of waste as possible Healthy – will generate as little visual, noise and physical pollution as possible 5 Environmental Stewardship Concepts and Definitions 3Rs 6Rs Conservation Eco-efficiency Environmentally Preferred Products and Services Environmental Steward 6 Environmental Stewardship Concepts and Definitions Green Building Green Office Green Procurement Green Purchasing Life Cycle Costing Recycling Resources 7 Principles of Environmental Stewardship Core Principle 1: Resource Conservation – making the most efficient use of resources (materials, energy and water) through: Energy Efficiency and Conservation Water Efficiency and Conservation Solid Waste Management and Conceptualizing...
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...An Assessment of Medical Waste Management in Bawku Presbyterian Hospital of the Upper East Region of Ghana. Francis Abugri AKUM, Ghana (MPH, CEMBA, PhD Public Health Student of Texila American University) Email: akumfrancis@gmail.com Mob: +233 244 767 431 Abstract Background Medical waste unlike other ordinary waste poses serious health risk to the handlers, health staff, patients and the community. The area of medical waste management is neglected in most health care facilities in Ghana. The main objective of the study was to assess the Medical Waste management practices in Bawku Presbyterian Hospital of the Upper East Region of Ghana. Methods The study used structured questionnaires, observation checklist and key informant interview guide to collect data from management staff and waste workers. Results It was observed that there was low knowledge about medical waste among waste workers. Medical waste is not segregated, waste containers not coded/labelled, no secured storage area for waste, no budget specifically for medical waste management and no waste management manual in the hospital. Conclusion This study has shown that, waste management in the hospital is poor and has health implications to the handlers, staff, patients and visitors. Keywords: medical waste, Bawku Presbyterian Hospital, waste segregation, waste storage. Introduction Health care services generates waste just like other human activities which has to be managed and dispose...
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...Historical Research on Waste Management Sean Depkin Jones International University Abstract Waste management is a necessary industry and has been traced back to 3000 B.C. It originally started off garbage dumps or landfills and has progressed to recycling facilities and incinerators that produce both heat and energy from the burned waste. It has been influenced by both motorized transportation and the advances in technology. The most influential person in the waste management industry in the U.S. has been Wayne Huizenga, who saw how to take smaller, independent companies and acquire them into the largest company in the industry. He was able to do that by using stock in his company to make the acquisitions instead of taking out loans from the banks. Waste management and corruption have always been associated with one another because of mafia ownership and even accounting debacles. It is a business that really did not take much to get into other than some capital and transportation. With the decline of available resources and the demand for fewer issues with hazardous waste, an advanced college degree has been necessary to get into management or in the design of the facilities and treatment of waste. Some countries such as Denmark have even advanced as far as to only use their landfills for about 6% of their waste, recycling and incinerating the rest (Buch-Andersen, 2005). Because of booming populations and economies, as well as the planet running out of room for...
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...the+environment&oq=native+american+love+the+environment&gs The featured business is a small health care company, Fellowship Senior Services, that provides health care services to 104 senior citizen and young disable adults in three locations. Fellowship Senior Services operates two Adult/ Senior Day Program that serve 80 to 90 people a day ( six to eight hours a day), and it runs an Assisted Living facility that serve 24 residents, 24 hours a day. To protect the environment and conserving g world resources, the company engages in a recycling and waste management program. It takes leadership effort by the owner to keep the program going. Though the company effort to protect the environment and conserve world resources is small in lieu of what other big companies can do, the planet benefit and so does the company. Environmental Considerations and Recommendation Consideration: The Company engaged in a waste...
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...INTRODCTION Environmental management predates to 1972, where a conference regarding the Human Environment was held by the United Nations in Stockholm, Sweden. This conference won the attention of many countries and other international organizations who recognised the importance of environmental challenges faced, both nationally and internationally, on all levels (United Nations Environment Programme; International Institute for Sustainable Development, 2000). Since then environmental management has broadened its horizons to include important standards such as ISO 14001, ISO 15001 and ISO 500001 to name but a few (Anon., 2015). With such laws and standards in place, one can speculate the nature and purpose of environmental management in...
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...As an international health educator, I will be conducting a needs assessment process for solid and hazardous waste management in Malaysia, which is a developing country that has major public health and environmental concerns especially in urban areas. Global Environment Centre says that “Solid waste is one of the three major environmental problems in Malaysia and currently, over 23,000 tons of waste is produced each day in Malaysia. However, this amount is expected to rise to 30,000 tons by the year 2020. The amount of waste generated continues to increase due to the increasing population and development, and only less than 5% of the waste is being recycled.” According to WHO Western Pacific Regional Environmental Health Centre (EHC), “ Some of the main problems in Malaysia are technical, financial, economic and social constraints. The first steps I will take in my needs assessment survey will be to collect background information on the communities in Malaysia. I will then develop a series of questions to address to the communities in collecting existing data and some of the processes that are currently in place. For example: What are they currently doing to reduce waste, what provides waste removal and do they have any type of recycling services or litter cleanup programs, also do they have any type of waste management for the disposal of hazardous waste for industrial and healthcare facilities. Malaysia has over 1800 rivers which are their only water resource so I...
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...and food waste – a review of research approaches and findings on point of purchase and in-household consumer behaviour Aschemann-Witzel, Jessica1; de Hooge, Ilona2; Amani, Pegah3; Bech-Larsen, Tino1; Jenny, Gustavsson3 1 MAPP - Centre for Research on Customer Relations in the Food Sector, Aarhus University, Bartholins Allé 10, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark. 2 Wageningen University, Hollandseweg 1, 6706 KN Wageningen, Then Netherlands. 3 SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden - Food and Bioscience, Box 5401, SE-402 29, Göteborg, Sweden. Paper prepared for presentation at the EAAE-AAEA Joint Seminar ‘Consumer Behavior in a Changing World: Food, Culture, Society” March 25 to 27, 2015 Naples, Italy Consumers and food waste – a review of research approaches and findings on point of purchase and in-household consumer behaviour Introduction Around a third of the world´s food is wasted at various steps of the supply chain (FAO, 2011). In Europe, the largest and increasing share is wasted at the consumer level (EPRS, 2014). The issue has gained considerable public attention in the past years, with a large number of initiatives developed by different stakeholders such as policy makers, retailers (e.g. France, Intermarché, 2014) and NGOs (e.g. Denmark, Stop spild af mad, 2014), and research projects that have and are exploring the issue (CONANX; FUSIONS). Furthermore, the European Parliament has called for 2014 to be the ‘year against food waste’ (EP, 2014)...
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...American University of Science & Technology Project Planning Management Naëma Slimani Project Planning Management for Sukleen in Lebanon Assignment 1 I) Presentation A) Company ............................................................................................................2 B) Missions and objectives......................................................................................2 C) Products and services..........................................................................................2 D) Customers, suppliers, partners and competitors.................................................3 II) Projects Project 1 .....................................................................................................................................4 Project 2 .....................................................................................................................................4 Project 3 .....................................................................................................................................5 Project 4 .....................................................................................................................................5 Project 5 .....................................................................................................................................6 I) Presentation A) Sukleen Since approximatively 15 years, Sukleen...
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...congestion, lacking solid waste management, unplanned hill cutting and poor sewerage facilities. Chittagong’s solid waste management system employs around 1,800 workers, of which 1,475 are Sheboks (street sweepers). Its trucks are powered by Compressed Natural Gas (CNG), and waste is disposed of into two landfills. Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) greening and recycling initiatives have won the prestigious “Prime Ministers First Prize” (in 2003-04) for achievements in maintaining Chittagong as a “Clean and Green” city of Bangladesh. Successful initiatives include an annual month-long plantation fair, and water and firewood recycling projects. The Conservancy Department of CCC is responsible for the solid waste management. To TOP 2. Action Plan Progress After the First 2006 AUICK Workshop, the Action Plan made for Chittagong facilitated NGO and private initiatives to better manage solid waste collection and disposal. Chittagong’s urban environment suffers from the effects of unplanned waste disposal by its 35-40 health clinics and hospitals, and the destruction of its hillside greenery by unplanned development, so a two-part plan increased community waste management and treatment of hospital waste, as well as creating greening programs for the urban areas of the city. Almost 30% of the city’s Wards were brought under community level management, and Ward councilors, public and NGO staff and community members worked together to improve the organization of waste disposal. Around...
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... | | | |Project Summary: This project is an advocacy to raise awareness among the young Filipino | | |generation about the importance of managing garbage and to move them to act and find ways to help| | |through creative ways managing their garbage mostly through recycling and re-use of their | | |personal resources. | | | | | |MMCOMRE Term/SY: 2nd Term, 2013 | *To be evaluated by the MMCOMRE/MMRECON teacher. I. Background Defintion Here is a brief definition basically of what garbage disposal is on a wider point: “Waste management is the...
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...Toyota Operations Management maintenance of the production of goods or services 1. Introduction Operations management is the maintenance of the production of goods or services that a company is developing for sale. The management team is charged with the task of ensuring a profitable and safe production system, and also ensuring that resources are allocated and used in an efficient manner, minimizing waste in labour and material resources. In order to meet these goals, the management team thus has to attempt to find the best operations strategy available for their particular situation and product. The biggest challenge for any organization and its operations is to try to maximize productions by cutting down on waste, Finding the right balance between getting the production up to the required standard by using the resources available to the optimal level. There are many strategies that can be used by an operations manager depending on the needs of production, and in the first section we will examine some existing operation management strategies, and in the second section we will examine the effectiveness of these strategies, and how well they fit in with the goals of the target organization, Toyota. 2. Operations Managers Role The Role of an operations manager is of utmost importance as any operations manager who can effectively utilize an organizations resources to efficient effect by producing outputs of a standard & sustainable quality, contributes to the organizations...
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...Construction and Demolition Waste: A practical Approach Abstract Construction material waste seems to have caused serious environmental problems in many large cities around the world over the past few years. As pressure for environmentally-friendly building practices increases, companies are discovering that ultimately 'going green' often promotes cost effectiveness and enhances the quality of life. The idea of ‘reuse’ and ‘recycle’ of many construction materials is a smart decision for all builders whether they are interested in environmentally-friendly building or not. At baseline, the research project will adopt three aims: 1) to examine the current issue with waste minimisation, cost implication by effectively management; 2) to investigate the economic analysis of reuse and recycling of construction and demolition waste; 3) to explore various construction materials that can be effectively reused and recycled. In order to achieve the above research aims, the following objectives are set: * To determine the importance of cost reduction techniques for reuse of construction and demolition waste * To investigate whether or not the economics of construction recycled materials can be justified throughout construction activity lifecycle. * To investigate the economic impact of reuse and recycling construction materials on major projects * To develop propose unique theoretical models on decision-making for reuse of construction and demolition waste The intended final outcome...
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...regulate the waste management,plans of program for waste management,rights and obligations of the legal entities for waste collection and individuals related to waste managements,the manner of the conditions for waste collection,transportation,treatment,processing,storage and disposal, waste import,export and transit,mentoring,information system and financing Article 2 Application of the Law The provisions of this law shall apply to all kinds of waste listed in the List of wastes,except to: 1.Radioactive waste 2.Waste generated during research,exploitation,processing and storage of mineral raw materials and the work of quarries 3.Gaseous effluent emitted into the atmosphere 4.Waste water,except liquid waste 5.Animal waste(carcases,manure,excrement etc.),as well as other types of non hazardous materials of natural origin used in agriculture and; 6.Decommissioned explosives and dispersing devices and materials. Article 3 Objectives of the Law The objectives of this Law shall be to provided: 1.Avoidance and reduction to the maximum possible extent of the amount of waste generation 2.Re-use of usable components of the waste 3.Sustainable development through protection and saving natural resources. 4.Prevention of negative impacts of waste on the environment,human lfe and health. 5.Environmentally acceptable waste disposal and; 6.High level protection of the environment,human life and health Article 4 Activity of Public Interest Waste management shall be considered...
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