...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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...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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...` 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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...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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...CASE STUDY #1 Fall 2013 Struggling Operations in a Manufacturing Organization You are the Chief Operations Officer a midsized window frame, aluminum siding, and tire recycling equipment manufacturing company located in the northeastern United States. Your company is organized along product lines, and you directly supervise the three people in charge of each of these product lines. The plants for these products are geographically dispersed over a two state area; the nearest plant is located only ten minutes away but the farthest plant is a two hour drive from the company headquarters. Although your company has been financially sound over the past ten years, over the past four months your company has been experiencing a serious cash flow problem. You believe part of this problem stems from the recent downturn in the local, regional, and national economy. However, you also believe this problem may be due to inefficient plant operations. You have called in the heads of the three product lines to determine whether plant operations can be improved to help alleviate the cash flow problem. The following is a more complete description of the three product lines and the people responsible for running these operations. Navya started with the company 20 years ago assembling window frames and has been in charge of the window frame plant for a little over two years. Navya is in charge of 12 full time employees, and this is the first formal supervisory position she has ever held. Because...
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...Recycle An estimated 80,000,000 Hershey’s Kisses are wrapped each day, using enough aluminum foil to cover over 50 acres of space or right about 40 football fields. All that foil is recyclable, but not many people realize it.(“A Recycling Revolution”, 2005) To see change we must start small and aim big. It only takes one person to start a trend. What if that tend is recycling? Recycling should be a trend that lasts through the decades. If we don’t start now then there wont be anything left for our future generations. All businesses and communities nationwide should be given the opportunity for recycling as it will increase monetary savings, create a greener environment and create less waste. Offering curbside recycling to businesses and homeowners can increase their monetary savings drastically. These programs can reduce utility bills, taxes and money spent on fuel. The U.s. is the #1 trash producing country in the world. The U.s. makes up 5% of the worlds population. With each person producing over 1,600 pounds of trash per year that means this country alone produces 40% of the worlds garbage. The United States produces 251 million tons of garbage annually and only recycles about 82 million tons of this. (Green Scene, n.d.)iCurbside recycling programs cost less than having centralized drop off locations. There are no additional salaries to employees hired to run these locations, which would be paid by the city taxpayers. Homeowners and businesses alike pay extra for garbage...
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...New Belgium Brewing A paper submitted in partial fulfillment for the Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration and Finance Table of Contents Page No. Introduction…………………………………………………….3 Environmental Issues…………………………………………..3, 4, 5 Strategic Philanthropy………………………………………….5, 6 Ethical and Social Responsible………………………………...6, 7, 8 Areas of Development………………………………………….8, 9 Conclusion………………………………………………………9, 10 Resources………………………………………………………. 11 Introduction: New Belgium Brewing Company started out with a simple bicycling through Belgium which also happens to be the home of some of the world’s finest ales. An American electrical engineer named Jeff Lebesch cruised around Belgium on in his fat-tired mountain bike pondering the thought whether or not he could produce the same high-quality beers back home in Colorado. Lebesch went back to his home in Colorado and started experimenting until his beers attained good recognition from some friends and so Lebesch decided to market them. New Belgium Brewing Company opened for business in 1991 as a small basement operation in Lesbesch’s home in Fort Collins but soon out grew that and now has its own custom-built facility. (Drever; Haiar, 2006) New Belgium started out as a small business with concrete core values and beliefs and as it grew bigger, it retained its business values. New Belgium’s most recognized characteristic is its image. New Belgium bases its company...
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...consumer awareness surrounding solid waste recycling, has led to an increased demand for recycled plastic resins and products. One of the fastest growing types of collected plastic materials for recycling is polyethylene terephthalate ("PET") from post-consumer beverage and water bottles. N2 SAVE WORLD will capitalize on the opportunities in the recycled resin and packaging markets through two main divisions: Recycling Division and Packaging Division. N2 Save World is a company in the plastics reclamation field that is responding to the need for plastic molders to increase recycled plastics in their products. The company was founded in July 1993 with personal funds. The reclamation equipment used is employed in five different locations in the Malaysia. Locations include Penang, Selangor, Malacca, Kuantan and Johor Bahru. Each of these facilities produces reclaimed plastics that are 99.999% pure. This product commands a premium price in the reclaimed plastic market due to its purity. Management Alfa Fitry, President, has a 30-year history of experience encompassing all aspects of Polymer Raw Material, Plastic Conversion Methods, and Venture Development. He has founded successful ventures in the plastic converting industry, and assisted in the launch of five plastic converting manufacturing plants. Danial Aziz, Executive VP and COO, is a graduate Engineer with over 20 years experience in the post-consumer plastics recycling industry and is the inventor of the primary...
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...The clear out and in particular waste management of the event. Waste management and the clear up stage is an important factor to any event. It requires just as much planning and consideration as any other stage in delivering the event. It is important as it makes the site cleaner for the customers, which also makes it safer for customers. With the majority of festivals nowadays trying to be seen as green festivals, using proper waste management will increase the recycling levels and boost the festivals reputation for being green. Glastonbury already does by being one of the leading festivals in the UK. Waste management doesn’t only take place after the event, it begins before the event has started and takes place throughout the whole event until it finishes. This is done by dispersing different types of bins all over the campsites and site of the festival, recycling bins for bottles, cans, general waste etc. These bins are clearly sign posted with bright identifiable colours on them. “The environmental purchasing hierarchy: “rethink, eliminate, eliminate, reduce, re-use, recycle, dispose” is an approach to minimizing natural resource impact which is similar to waste management hierarchy” (REFERENCE PG 86) Having staff that collect rubbish during the day and at night once each night is finished will keep the site looking better than if it was left until right at the very end. Litter is going to be found on the floor no matter how well the event is organised....
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...Dr. Maronick MKTG 640 McDonald’s: The Greening of the Golden Arches In 1990, the Environmental Defense Fund and McDonald’s jointly decided to phase out the use of plastic products and revert back to using paper products. However, while this may have satisfied the consumers who supported this initiative, it overlooked the many benefits of plastic recycling programs. As the Director of Environmental Affairs, Peter Oehl was faced with satisfying what his consumers and board of directors desired, versus pursuing the opportunity to start a much more eco-friendly recycling system which he believed would yield far greater future benefits. One of the key facts presented in the case study was that there are many benefits to using plastic, as long as it is done correctly. Early on, McDonald’s launched an advertising campaign showing just how advantageous the use of plastic was. First, they showed evidence of the many materials plastic can be recycled into. Then, they cited that even if they used the proposed was paper, the wax on the paper would still need to be separated in order to decompose properly. Additionally, they pointed out that if paper products in landfills aren’t exposed to air, water, and micro-organisms, they would not breakdown and biodegrade as planned. Next, they also exposed the fact that paper mills consumed far more energy and product more waste than plastic manufacturing plants did at that time. Furthermore, they went on to spread education on the superiority...
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...packaging and recycling. Smurfit-Stone is a leading producer in containerboard which includes corrugated containers, and recovered fiber. They also specialize in the recycling of paper, waste, and aluminum, steel and cardboard. Smurfit-Stone operates approximately 240 facilities which are primarily located in the U.S., Canada and Mexico and employs around 33,500 people as of currently. Other companies within this industry are Georgia Pacific and Waste Management. These are just to name a couple of the competitors within the paper/recycling field. The companies within the paper/recycling industry can all be compared in several ways. One of Smurfit Stones’ competitors, Georgia Pacific is also one the world’s leading manufacturers. Georgia Pacific specializes in recycling tissue, paper, packaging, cardboard and building products. Georgia Pacific has approximately 300 manufacturing facilities across North America, South America and Europe. Compared to Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation, Georgia Pacific has 45,000 employees and their employees are guided by Market Based Management principles and this is based on integrity and compliance. Another competitor is Waste Management Recycling. Waste Management is a leading provider of comprehensive waste, environmental services and recycling in North America. Waste Management has approximately 55,000 employees along with 367 collection operations, 355 transfer stations, 273 active landfill disposal sites and 134 recycling plants. Waste...
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...Recycling of plastics is a serious problem of countries. People do not know its serious effects, so the statistic of recycling of plastics decreased in the recent year and the number of used plastics is increasing quickly. Countries also give some possible solution to solve this problem. According to Marino (2002,p.8) 800,000 tonnes of household collected in Australia from kerbsides each year and the rate of recycling PVC bottles decreased 3% from 1999 to now. Furthermore, the plastic of cars has only 8% is recovered (Association of plastics Manufacturers in Europe,1999). Other statistic is only 2.5% of plastic domestic packaging is recycled in the USA (Landreth and Rebers,1996). Nowadays, many goods are made of plastic, so if it is not recycled, it will be able to affect to people’s health. This problems will become easier if people know how to recycle the plastic and clean up the waste. Besides that, technology has modern machines to solve this problems. Porter (2002,p.12) stated that the electro-thermal deactivation(ETD) can help people avoid noxious from plastic or waste by dumping or incinerate. However, ETD is not cheap. Additionally, other machine is an industrial-scale Cuisinart , it can chop up the plastic or the waste with whirring blades and with the cheap price (Carey and Port, 2002, p.75). In conclusion, it is very necessary and important to change the current situation. the plastic and the waste are noxious, so it needs to be recycled...
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...Abstract There is strong interest in "going green," including using products that cause less environmental damage when they are disposed of. In this environmental sciences project, you will compare the toxicity of "green" and conventional liquid detergents using worms as test organisms. Objective The objective of this environmental sciences project is to determine if green detergents are safer for the environment than conventional detergents. Introduction Reduce, reuse, recycle. These are typically known as the three R's of the environment. Every year, Americans throw away billions of containers and other packaging materials that end up in landfills. Reducing the amount of waste you produce is one way to help the environment. Another way to help the environment is to recycle. Many of the things we use every day, like paper bags, soda cans, and milk cartons, are made out of materials that can be recycled. Recycled items are put through a process that makes it possible to create new products out of the materials that come from the old ones. Reusing is another way to help protect the environment. The idea is simple: instead of throwing things away, try to find ways to use them again. The use of grey water to irrigate plants is an example. Grey water is the water produced by showering, cleaning clothes, washing dishes, etc. It does not include human waste (that is called black water, and is not safe to use for irrigation). Clearly, if grey water is to be used for growing...
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...Home About Education Activism Recycling Energy Water Donate Contact EDUCATION * College Directory * Videos * Green Tips Did You Know? LED lights consume roughly 10% of the power consumed by incandescent lamps. NREL RELATED * Education Links * Other Interesting Links 10 Easy Ways To Be Green 1. Reduce Just by turning off the tap while brushing your teeth or shaving, you can save more than 200 gallons of water per month. Here are some other effective ways you can help to conserve resources … * Turn off the lights when leaving a room. * Use both sides of the paper when printing and copying. * Walk or bike instead of driving. * Take short showers. * Drink tap water instead of bottled water. * Remove unnecessary items from your car to reduce weight. * Regularly replace the filter on your HVAC system. * Install faucet aerators.l * Use cold water to wash clothes. * Stop junk mail. * Install a programmable thermostat in your home. (Source: U.S. EPA) 2. Unplug Unused Electronics Did you know that a cell phone charger can still consume electricity even when a phone isn't connected to it? In the average home, 25% of the electricity used to power home electronics is consumed while the products are turned off. To stop these "phantom loads" when devices are not in use, unplug them or connect them to power strips, which can then be turned off. (Source: U.S.DOE) 3. Recycle By recycling materials such as aluminum cans...
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