...that humans are more important and we need to worry about our existent before the environment, but that is not the case. By cutting down on pollution, recycling and conserving water; Christians are not only taking action to restore the environment, bet setting a good example on how to act and take care of Gods creation. Conserving Water “On average, 10 gallons per day of your water footprint (or 14% of your indoor use) is lost to leaks.” (National Geographic). There is so much water that goes uncalled for, and gets wasted by kids and even adults who do not even think about how much water they are using which goes into wasting day by day. Whether that is taking a long shower, leaving the sinks dripping by not turning them off all the way, or playing with the hose outside. Everyday we are hearing about different states being in droughts and not having enough water. There are so many ways in which Christians can save water and cut down on the use of it daily. From taking shorter showers, to doing less loads of laundry less often. There are even laws in some states and counties that don’t allow the the neighborhood to water their grass or wash their cars at a certain time. These ways and laws to save water, Christians should follow. Setting a good example to others and helping restore the environment. Recycling...
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...Sustainability of Recycling Vincent R. Bond DeVry University English 135 January 28, 2013 For years recycling has been going on and still today there has been no true reduction of the amount of waste that people produce throughout the years. Even though waste materials are recycled into new products there are several negative effects also for both consumers and the environment. Every neighborhood that you drive through now have more than one garbage can, one for regular garbage and one for recycling and most times there is a fee to the county or an Home Owners Association(HOA) that the American homeowner must pay whether they are recycling or not. According to reporter John Tierney, who wrote a story for New York Times magazine, “Recycling is Garbage”. With this said the sustainability of recycling is economically unfeasible due to the expense and the damage done to the environment. The expense of collecting and recycling materials are very high compared to just disposing of it as garbage. According to author Harvey Black of the Environmental Health Perspectives Journal, in San Jose, California “it costs $28 per ton to landfill waste compared with $147 a ton to recycle” (Black 1006). Since there are no machines that can easily handle recycling the time and money spent recycling is higher than actually disposing of waste. When looking at the price to produce material from recycled waste also shows that it cost the tax payers more money for this new product. When...
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...` Presented By: Carol Asmar Presented To: Dr. Fadi Hashem Jessica Azzam Strategic Management Instructor Rima Radwan MGT 420 Aya Soleiman Abstract [Draw your reader in with an engaging abstract. It is typically a short summary of the document. When you’re ready to add your content, just click here and start typing.] Averda’s Strategic Management Contents Introduction 2 Company Profile 4 Mission Statement 4 Vision Statement 5 Strategy 5 Goals 6 SWOT Analysis 7 Weakness 7 Opportunities 7 Threats 8 Tows Analysis 8 Porter’s Five Forces Model 9 Balance Score Card 11 Customer Perspective 11 Financial Perspective 11 Internal Business Perspective 11 Innovation & Learning Perspective 11 Conclusion and Recommendation 12 Introduction Waste management is the collection, transport, processing or disposal managing and monitoring of waste materials. Waste management is often related to materials produced by human activity; hence, it is a process undertaken in order to minimize the effect on health, or environment. It focuses on postponing the rate of consumption of natural resources. All waste materials, which include solids, liquids, gases or radioactive materials are part of waste management. Waste management practices vary greatly considering developed and developing nation, for urban and rural areas and for residential and industrial producers. This industry is usually under the responsibility of local government...
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...Carly Kupka RA #1 OLIS 611 Waste Reduction and Recycling Up until now, our primary strategies to reduce waste has been recycling, reducing, and reusing. While these are all important tools in waste reduction, a new way of thinking about waste needs to occur; a fourth R: “Rethinking” means that waste doesn’t have to be a part of the consumption cycle at all (Roseland). While we have a very long way to go in achieving this zero-waste idea, we can still start by rethinking all aspects of a production process; starting with the initial design process down to reusing or recycling all by-products. The City of Eugene is doing its part in Recycling, Reducing and Reusing, as well as Rethinking about waste by partnering with local non-profits and schools to educate the community in resource conservation as well as providing recycling services and composting programs. The budget for Solid Waste and Recycling in Eugene accounts for 0.3% of the total budget, or $1,476 for the year. There are four major sectors and program coordinators working for the City’s waste management and recycling department: • Stephanie Scafa- Zero Waste Analyst for the Waste Prevention and Green Building Program • Anne Donahue- Compost and Urban Agriculture • Nancy Young- Solid Waste Analyst for the Waste Prevention Program • Ethan Nelson- Recycling contact for Waste Prevention and Green Building Program Roseland suggests many tools and initiatives in waste management that local government can use to...
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...Reducing your Personal Energy Use Reducing your Personal Energy Use Ever since the human settlements and their population place pressure on the environment through the increasing demand for water, energy and land, and also through the production of wastes that includes greenhouse gas emission. These impacts can also be regard as direct, through the use of water, energy, and land, or indirect, through the production and distribution of goods and services that household consumes. There is evidence that our way of living and the direction of the development in today’s society are not considered ecologically sustainable. This essay is about exploring how we can use creative thinking to find a sustainable solution to a problem that we are currently facing, which is Climate Change. By applying the Osborn’s (1979) Creative Problem-Solving-process, together with creative thinking tools, this essay explore the way’s that we as an individual can come up with to reduce our consumption and change our habits to achieve a significant sustainable reduction in our personal energy use .This is achieved by identifying a problem, then generating ideas, then evaluating the potential solution the problem. The first step to Osborn’s (1979) CPSP is the fact-finding, which acquire us to identify the problem, and present fact about it for supporting. Individual demand for the energy is increasing day-by-day; there are many causes for it e.g. IT appliances, production and preparation of food and clothing...
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...Water Sustainability Water management is a high priority for Coca Cola mainly because it is the main ingredient used in their products and is used extensively throughout their manufacturing process. With over 900 bottling plants across the globe which source water locally, the health of their business is dependent upon the communities and ecosystems they operate in. In 2009 Coca Cola achieved its seventh consecutive year of improved water use efficiency. They focus their water stewardship efforts in three areas: 1. Improve water efficiency, 2. Recycle the water used in operations and 3. Replenish through community restoration and protection initiative’s Some of the measures Coca Cola has undertaken in its water stewardship program include: * Compliance with all applicable local wastewater laws * Work to align their entire global system with their internal wastewater treatment standards which are often more strict than local legislation * They return 90% of the water used in manufacturing back into the environment in a safe condition and aim to return 100% by 2012 * Working to reduce the water used to produce 1 litre of beverage from 2.43 litres, down to 2.17 litres, nearly half way there * Since 2005 they have been involved in more than 320 community water partnerships in 86 countries to support locally relevant initiatives * Working with World Wildlife Fund, they are helping to measurably conserve seven of the world's most critical...
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...hazardous secondary materials recycling to protect public health and the environment. This Proposal will change EPA’s 2008 Definition of Solid Waste rule, which altered the hazardous waste regulations to promote recycling of hazardous secondary materials. 2. A) The federal agency that is promoting this change is named as “US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which began operation on December 3, 1970 and proposed by President Richard Nixon. B) I always have an interest on this agency, base on its main purpose, which is to conduct environmental assessment focusing on the protection of the human health and our environment. This Proposed rule impacts me because as everyone, I would like to have and maintain a clean and healthy environment if I can, and I believe it would also reduce illness such as asthma and cancer, and at the same time this rule will help industries to identify what type of solid waste should they identify and recycle. C) I currently reside with my family near an industry that uses hazardous and toxic chemicals, which generate hazardous materials and coal residues. I would not like to have residues near home that could drive any of my family member’s health to a bad stage. On the other hand, I understand that this rule also help these industries to identify the proper practice towards the solid waste by providing more explicit and consistent factors that will push them to a legitimacy of recycling process. 3. ...
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...for: [pic] “Comparison and Critical evaluation of Recycling Industry in Canada and Malaysia” “I have read the Student Academic Code of Conduct and this assignment complies with the Code” Introduction Recycling is the process of turning used products into raw materials that can be used to make new products. Its purpose is to conserve natural resources and reduce pollution. Recycling a product requires less energy when compared to manufacturing a new product and some of the items being currently recycled are Paper, Plastic, Glass, Metals and Electronics (Ackerman, 2008). History of Recycling Waste management in Canada is considered to be a $5.6 Billion industry. Canada produced over 34 million tonnes of waste in 2008, out of which 25.9 million tonnes of waste was sent to public and private waste disposal facilities and the remaining 8.5 million tones was sent to recycling and composting, which has been practically unchanged since 2006 (Globe-Net, 2010). Waste management had become an issue of vital importance as Canada having a total of 800 landfill sites was facing a critical shortage of the landfill space with 30% already filled up leading to growing concerns about the environmental impacts of the traditional waste disposal methods. Reduction, Reuse, recycling and recovery were considered to play a key role in minimizing the wastes by 50% (Alberni Environmental Coalition, 1991). From a 16% recycling rate in 2003, Ontario had managed to increase the rate to...
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...FORECASTING AND ENVIRONMENT FORECASTING Forecasting is essentially the study of internal and external forces that shapes demand and supply. The shape of the things to come will depend partially upon how one shapes the controllable factors. With different strategies, the forecasting will be different, offering multiple scenarios for management decision making. Forecasting is an estimate of sales in physical units for a specified future period under proposed marketing plan or programme and under the assumed set of economic and other forces outside the organization for which the forecast is made. Long term forecasts: Product diversification, sales, advertizing budgets, capacity planning and investment planning, Short term forecasts: Material control, loading and scheduling, and budgeting. Objectives of forecasting Short term objectives • • • • • • Formulation of production policy – Regular supply of material, Maximum utilization of machines, Regular availability of labour Formulation of pricing policy Proper control of sales Arrangement of finance Production capacity Labour requirements Long term objectives • Capital restructuring and resourcing Steps in forecasting demand Determining the objectives Period of forecasting – Short term or long term Collection and analysis of data – data to be collected, tabulated, analyzed and cross-checked by applying statistical or graphical techniques Study of correlation – between sales forecasts and sales promotion plans studying policies...
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...Environment Management Topic : Hazardous Waste Management Group Members : Rohan Shanbhag (146) Amit Sharma (147) Nandita Sharma (148) Priya Shegoankar (149) Hazardous waste management is the collection, treatment, and disposal of waste material that, when improperly handled, can cause substantial harm to human health and safety or to the environment. Hazardous wastes can take the form of solids, liquids, sludges, or contained gases, and they are generated primarily by chemical production, manufacturing, and other industrial activities. They may cause damage during inadequate storage, transportation, treatment, or disposal operations. Improper hazardous-waste storage or disposal frequently contaminates surface and groundwater supplies. People living in homes built near old and abandoned waste disposal sites may be in a particularly vulnerable position. In an effort to remedy existing problems and to prevent future harm from hazardous wastes, governments closely regulate the practice of hazardous-waste management. Hazardous Materials Regulations Hazardous materials are regulated by three primary government agencies: ...
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...HEALTH CARE WASTE MANAGEMENT SCENARIO IN WEST BENGAL The wastes generated from health care units are generally classified as infectious and non-infectious. The infectious health care wastes are termed as ‘bio-medical wastes’ and are considered to be potentially hazardous in nature. The disposal of untreated bio-medical wastes mixed with non-infectious health care wastes or other general municipal wastes poses an environmental threat and public health risk.Indiscriminate disposal of untreated bio-medical waste is often the cause for the spread of several infectious diseases. It is also responsible for the nosocomial diseases i.e. the hospital acquired diseases to the health care personnel who handle these wastes at the point of generation. Moreover, this is equally harmful to persons involved in the bio-medical waste management i.e. segregation, storage, transport, treatment and disposal. Apart from the above, a good amount of bio-medical wastes such as disposable syringes, saline bottles, I.V. fluid bottles etc. are picked up by rag pickers and are recycled back into the market without any disinfection. It is imperative, therefore, to adopt an appropriate environmentally safe method for the disposal of the hospital wastes. Sources of generation of Bio-medical wastes: Hospitals, Nursing Homes, Veterinary Hospitals, Dental Clinics, Pathological & Diagnostic Laboratories, Blood Bank etc. Type of Health Care Waste: These are of two types (i) Infectious Wastes (ii) Non-infectious...
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...English 101 Going green is too expensive Now a days all you hear about is global warming and how all this pollution is ruining the earth, and how going green will solve any future problems. Now say you do decide to go green but wait going green means you have to spend more money. Now why the hell would you spend more money to go green? Especially when this is a worldwide situation and the economy not being the greatest. Who in his or her minds would spend more money when everyone is trying to save money? When it comes to the cost of going green, the long-term benefits to gain often outweigh the costs. The challenge for most people is really to remember this and choose to make an investment. While researching about this I came across an article stating someone’s opinion and one phrase caught my eye. “If we only focus on the cost of going green to our pockets today, but ignore the higher cost of not going green to our environment tomorrow, then we are being irresponsible and unkind – not only to humanity and other living things on earth, but also to ourselves. We will be unkind to ourselves, because many of us will still be alive, fortunately or unfortunately, to experience the harms we bring about to the environment -- pollution, global warming and climate change.” Thinking about this phrase made me think, if your willing to put the money down now you’ll save the rest of it in the future. But why do I have to pay so much, wouldn’t going green be cheaper to make the person...
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...Thesis: The environmental protection agency (EPA) should work more diligently to introduce legislation to eradicate the digital dumping ground because it is increasing at an alarming rate, it is causing problems with the eco-system and destroying health conditions. Digital Dumping Ground “E-waste includes computers, entertainment electronics, mobile phones and other items that have been discarded by their original users” (Osuagwu and Ikerionwu, 2010, p. 5). Electronic waste or E-Waste has been an ever growing problem here in the U.S. New and more advanced products have been entering the market at a faster pace since the 1980s. Retailers make their profit by selling. From cellphones to televisions, consumers have been bombard with lots of choices. However, at some point these items will have to be thrown out, and most likely they will end up in a landfill-- digital dumping ground. Landfills are already overfilled with waste such as plastic bottles, bags, etc. Objects such as these take years to break down. Taking that into account, how long will it take a TV, VCR, or a washing machine to break down, if ever? How has this problem developed? Since many Americans are better educated; have better paying positions, they accumulate more waste. Retailers know this, and want to market their products to them. In a materialistic world where more is better, this will eventually create dire consequences. Landfills are already filled with objects that take years to break...
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...Use of M.I.S. Packages in Health Projects in India A Suite of software packages (like to monitor the Prevention of Food Adulteration, software for Medical Certification of Cause of Death (MCCD), Software for Processing Bed Occupancy & Mortality Rate, DOTS (Directly Observed Treatment Short-term for eradication of TB disease). Medicine Inventory Monitoring System (MIMS), Doctors Leave Accounting System and Family Welfare MIS, Malaria Monitoring Software, Software for National School Health Programme and G2G e-Office packages has been implemented at Civil Surgeons offices under e-health Net Project. This has helped in greater availability of medicines to the patients in govt. health institutes and Doctor’s availability in rural dispensaries. E-Health Net received National Silver Icon Award along with Health Care Foundation at 8th national e-Governance conference. Website of Health department has been launched. Hospitals OPD MIS, Physically Handicapped Certificate Issuing systems introduced. GOI sponsored IDSP (integrated Disease Surveillance Project) initiated at all districts. Intermediate Technologies – IT Power India Pvt. Ltd. (ITPI) is the well known private limited company in the field of renewable energy and environment management consultancy with the object of promoting sustainable development. ITPI has the widest range of expertise in both the above sectors, covering strategic planning as well as functional areas of operations including funding and financial...
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...TerraCycle: Outsmarting waste 1. Upon what basis did Szaky make decisions throughout the development of the venture? Tom Szaky is an entrepreneur, known for starting TerraCycle, a company that makes consumer products out of waste. Although the environment and the venture itself changed a lot throughout the development, Szaky always remained true to himself. He believed that a waste management business could make a profit and promote environmental protection at the same time. However, gut instincts and being in the right place at the right time was also an important issue for the former success - commencing with the idea for the startup business when he visited his friends and discovered the fertilizer which they had developed. Shortage of money was an essential subject in the first years of the business and therefore many decisions were based on capital procurement. Later on as the business was running better, a lot of decisions were not based on financial matters but to snap a chance to advance growth. 2. What are the critical moments that TerraCycle faced, and how did they define the firm? The corporate history of TerraCycle includes a plethora of critical moments and challenges. Starting with the disappointing place at the business plan competition, wherefore the entire foundation of the company was made for. As they found a possibility to implement their idea by using worm gins from an investor, they had to scramble up some money. The testiest struggle was raising capital...
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