Essays on Waste

Many Universities these days have transitioned to the all-you-can-eat style dining plan for their on-campus students. This is a change from the traditional a la carte point system that many universities, including our University, have employed in the past. This new style dining plan has...

Phones are what any American can view as a typical everyday item. It is something we use without a second thought. However, when these devices are used by millions every day there starts to be a problem on how to properly dispose of them. Phones,...

Industrial waste When most people think of industrial waste, they envision metal barrels with a hazardous waste symbol on outside. There are many more sources of industrial waste other than those problem causing “hazardous wastes”, and they hit a lot closer to home than anyone...

Basically, Industrial waste consists of industrial wastewater. Our environment is being polluted every day. And industrial pollution is one of main reasons for it. Factories are dumping their waste anywhere they can and it is polluting our environment. Hence, we need to control and treat...

Management of microbiome is crucially important due to their ability of performing fundamental functions in waste treatment processes. Since microorganisms are paramount for waste treatment installations, comprehending functions of microbiome is of great significance to develop suitable environment for efficient product recovery (Foo, Ling, Lee,...

Pollution, a simple word which is hunting down the world with its intricating web. Last year, 14 billion pounds (6B Kg.) of garbage was dumped into the ocean. Most of it is plastic. Americans make up 5% of the world’s population, and yet, produce 30%...

Dear CNN: Since the mid-nineties, microbeads have been used in thousands of consumer products: shampoos, face scrubs and even toothpaste. Microbeads are polyethylene spheres, typically, a millimeter or less in diameter and almost invisible to the naked eye (Rozental-Evesque, 2010). Unfortunately, while they seem to...

Sometimes called garbage or trash, municipal solid waste consists of everyday items used and then throw away, such as product packaging, grass clippings, furniture, clothing, bottles, food scraps, newspapers, appliances, paint, and batteries, which comes from our homes, schools, hospitals, and businesses. Compared to the...

Background information of Study Biomass is the culmination of organic materials such as plant matter and manure that have not become fossilized and are used as a fuel or energy source. (Dictionary of the English Language, 2016). Plant biomass is a renewable source of energy...

Introduction Global estimates (FAO 2011) suggest that about one third of edible food produced is lost or wasted along the supply chain. This inefficiency causes wastage of natural and economic resources. FAO estimated the cost of food wastage at US$940 billion (FAO 2013, 2014). Food...

Abstract. Recent researches have indicated the manufacturing of several useful products by using different industrial wastes all over the world. The materials remain as a waste till their potential to right use is understood. The solid waste in India has emerged as a great threat...

Agricultural waste produced as a result of various agricultural operations. It includes manure and other wastes from farms, poultry houses and slaughterhouses; harvest waste; fertilizer run- off from fields. Cow-dung waste with high moisture content and its readily biodegradable nature is causing major environmental problems...

Scrap metal originates both in business and residential environments. Typically a “scrapper” will advertise their services to conveniently remove scrap metal for people who don’t need it. Scrap is often taken to a wrecking yard (also known as a scrapyard, junkyard, or breaker’s yard), where...

In most countries household’s waste products waste are stored in plastic bags mixed without being sorted and be stored in special plastic bins or metal containers in the street and collected every day by waste collectors. Waste collection vehicle is a compactor truck with a...

According to the World Nuclear Association, radioactivity from nuclear waste will take 1,000 years for the amount of radiation to be equal to that which is already naturally occurring and safe for the environment. There are three classes of nuclear waste, low and intermediate-level wastes...

The electronic waste (e-waste) produced every day is equally rising tremendously with the growing usage of electrical and electronic equipment around the world. Unmodernized techniques of recycling electronic equipment such us withholding inherent copper expose both adult and child workers as well as their families...

Ghana has waste management difficulties that extend from the state to the local municipalities, and refuse of all shapes and sizes is a common sight in both urban and rural areas. These difficulties are concentrated and complicated by population pressures in the few heavily populated...

In today’s current market scenario clients are demanding software which performs the task as per their need along with main software product. The companies are working under pressure to provide customized software along with software product to meet client’s requirement and heterogeneous framework environment. Consequently...

Abstract Real-time monitoring of wastewater quality remains as unresolved problem to the waste water treatment industry. In order to comply with increasingly stringent environmental regulation, plant operators as well as industrial manufactures have expressed the the need of new standard and improved comparability of existing...

Many items in todays world are constructed using plastic, but this durable material was incorporated into many items only intended to have a single or small amount of use. Examples of these are coffee cups, toothbrushes, plastic bags, cutlery, water bottles, milk cartons and so...

Industries produce various types of waste which includes biodegradable, non-biodegradable, toxic, and radioactive, out of which 10 to 15 % are non-biodegradable and hazardous waste. Examples are plastic, glass objects, silver foil, gypsum etc. The increase Industrial wastes are categorized into two types: Process waste...

Plastics are the type of synthetic or semi-synthetic polymer which can moulded to any shape. It is an example of inorganic waste. Plastics are not toxic as such to humans since it is less soluble, but additives like plasticizers are toxic. Plastics though non-toxic cause...

Pavements in cold regions are prone to frost damages during winter as a result of prolong sever below zero temperature. Frost heave can negatively affect the performance and ride quality of the road. At the end of the frost season, when thawing begins in the...

Plastic is usually a lasting material. Its lastingness has created the problems of the matter since it’s thought of immune to environmental bio-degradation processes, that means. The microbes that break down alternative substances don’t acknowledge plastic as food. Nonetheless plastic may be fragmented with the...

In our quest for a clean and green Guyana, it would be good practice to separate garbage into different groups, instead of throwing everything into the same bin. Mr. Rufus Lewis, a local Solid Waste Management (SWM) expert attached to the Haags Bosch Sanitary Landfill...

4NEW ICO: Making waste product more lucrative Overview You might wonder! What is the motive of this interesting platform called 4NEW? Stay tuned. The 4NEW reason of coming on board was for the purpose of changing our environmental off dirt and making dirt industry a...

Zach Goldsmith quoted, “Of all the waste we generate, plastic bags are perhaps the greatest symbol of our throwaway society. They are used, and then forgotten, and they leave a terrible legacy.” Plastics have been major problem our world is currently facing in this generation....

The moment I took my first few steps in this City of Gentle People, I was in awe on how beautiful this town is. The beautiful variety of colors being reflected on the sea surface from the establishments around boulevard made me feel like I...

Every product has a shelf life, but sadly that is not the case with plastics. The fact is that our planet cannot digest plastic. Plastics take around 500 to 1000 years to completely degrade due to the presence of complex polymers. As per the survey...

K.I. Syed Ahmed Kabeer and Ashok Kumar Vyas investigated the performance of cement mortar made with marble powder as fine aggregate. Fine aggregate was replaced with marble powder in steps of 0, 20, 40, 60, 80 and 100%. The characteristic variation in water requirement is...