...McElmurry SCI201-1503A-04 Professor Ryan Cornell August 3, 2015 Waste and Disposal When useful material goods reach the end of its life cycle, it loses it economic value and turns into waste material. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, “Solid waste includes garbage, rubbish, refuse, sludge from a wastewater treatment plant, water supply treatment plant, or air pollution control facility, and other discarded material, including solid, liquid, semisolid, or contained gaseous material resulting from industrial, municipal, commercial, mining, and agricultural operations and from community and institutional activities” (EPA, n.d.). The focus of this discussion is to familiarize you with Municipal Solid Waste (MSW), how we dealt with waste before industrialization and why the process changed. Followed by an explanation of how things are being done to make the Mariannhill Landfill more productive and reduce its environmental impact. MSW is the nonhazardous waste (trash and garbage) that we throw away every day. This includes durable goods, such as tires and furniture, nondurable items such as plastic cups and newspapers, containers like milk cartons and other waste from your yard and food. This type of waste refers to common household waste, as well as businesses, hospitals or schools. Industrial, hazardous and construction waste are not included (CSS, 2014). All of the Municipal Solid Waste Landfill (MSWLF) must comply with the federal regulations or their...
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...Disposal of Hazardous Waste Micheal Walters HCS/430 July 25, 2013 Cliffornia J. Rolle Disposal of Hazardous Waste The way that huge amounts of hazardous waste are disposed of could be one of the most dangerous aspects of the health care industry, at least as it relates to security measures. Safe and proper disposal of hazardous and toxic waste is a primary issue for developing regulatory compliance because it affects not only the general populace, but the health care employees as well. “The focus of this kind of training often is almost remedial simply due to employees having little or no experience in dealing with these kinds of materials and not being fully cognizant of the extent of the potential risk.” (Timothy Sexton, Jan 30, 2007) It has also been made very important to make organizational hierarchies which are good at assigning responsibility for being capable of doing the proper disposal of hazardous waste. Also it is extremely important that the hazardous waste stream is able to be tracked. “And finally it is recommended that systematic evaluation and analysis of the process for disposing of hazardous waste be conducted in order to improve upon any flaws or gaps in the system.” (Timothy Sexton, Jan 30, 2007) Evaluations on hazardous waste disposal should be performed on a regular basis like emergency and fire drills. “It is recommended that systematic evaluation and analysis of the process for disposing of waste be conducted in order to improve...
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...interrelationships which exist among these, or any of them e.g. waste. Two kinds of definitions are operative for waste. One is conceptual and the other descriptive (Savasi, 1977) and defines waste by listing the kinds of materials comprising it. In the conceptual sense, wastes are defined as useless, unwanted or discarded materials. However, to a modern environmentalist, waste are just materials which are discarded because, they ‘seem’ to have no further economic use ignoring the irrelevant issue of usefulness, value or desirability of the waste. In the descriptive definition, waste consists of discarded materials resulting from domestic, community activities, industrial, commercial and agricultural operations. 1.1 TYPES OF WASTE Agricultural waste, Biomedical waste, Business waste, Chemical waste, Consumable waste, Domestic waste, Industrial waste, Inorganic waste, Medical waste, Organic waste, Recyclable waste Toxic waste, etc. Population explosion, uncontrolled urbanization and rapid industrialization have caused high waste generation quantities and rates in a country, (NEST 1991) waste generation increases not only because people multiply and hence the space available to each person becomes smaller, but also because the demand per person are continually increasing, so that each person throws away more waste year by year. If the world’s population were evenly distributed over the earth surface, most of these wastes could probably remain unnoticed and perhaps harmless...
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...Waste disposal 1. Define Waste, Refuse, Sullage ? Waste is defined as rubbish , refuse, garbage . its in other word any unwanted material , or useless materials , and material that rejected as a worthless material , it has less amount of activity . Refuse is the act of disposing of rubbish or any waste , its also a technique for collection , treatment as well as disposal of solid waste of community . Sullage is the waste from household shawer , bates , its also mean filth or waste 2. Identify the various types and source of waste ? Types of waste : all things considered, waste can be fluid or strong. Them two can be unsafe. What's more, them two can likewise be assembled into natural and re-usable and additionally recyclable waste....
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...population growth. Consumerism grew, and so did the production of waste. Local communities could no longer handle the waste on their own. Small waste disposal companies began to emerge. A notable company of the time is Ace Scavenger. In 1956, this company worked with 12 dump trucks, and had revenue of about $750,000. This was the perfect time to be in the waste management business because of the projected growth; Ace Scavenger saw the industry’s potential and began expanding itself by buying and creating similar companies. With the amount of continuous growth in the industry, the responsibility to treat waste properly was very important. The use of open dumps, and burning methods were starting to show negative...
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...My ideal house My ideal house would cost a great many thousands of dollars and therefore, even if I am very successful in life, I do not suppose that I shall possess it for a very long time. However there is no harm in dreaming, especially if the dream provides the driving force to turn fantasy into fact. As I live in Singapore, i would like my ideal house to be situated either on one of the residential estates, right outside the bustle of the city center, or on one of the coast roads so that the cool breezes from the ever beautiful China sea could waft through my windows. Wherever my house was, it would stand in it sown grounds so that I would not, on any side, be over-looked by neighbors. The gardens, with which it would be surrounded would be very beautiful, full of colorful tropical flowers; orchids and canna lilies and with many glowing flowering shrubs such as bougainvillaea and frangipani. There would be tall leafy trees for shade and underneath them, my private swimming bath would be built, where we could relax and swim in the heat of the day. there would be pleasant paths winding through the green grass and comfortable seats where my family and I could rest, when the day's toil was over. The house itself would be built of white stone which is both cool and weather-proof. It would be on two storeys, because I like the habit of sleeping upstairs. It would embody features from both the Eastern and Western worlds. In front of it, I would have a large path with...
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...To the Commanding Officer of NAVSCOLEOD: During my time in NAVSCOLEOD I learned significant things about myself in the past 7 months and the direction I would like my military career to take. In the words of Colin Powell he describes success as, “the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.” I believe that this is a main key of completing EOD School. While I was deciding what MOS to choose before I committed to the Army, my recruiter informed me about the EOD program. I did my research on it and I found out it was one of the most difficult schools to get through in the Military and it provided a high sense of comradery within the EOD community itself. This is what I have been looking for in a profession, challenges on a daily basis and a good group of people to work with. I got a gist of what EOD was going to be like at the preliminary course at Fort Lee. After I completed this course I was fully committed to the EOD program and I was sure this is going to be a long term career. Going through NAVSCOLEOD showed me that it wasn’t only the challenges and the difficulty that drawn me to this program but it was the caliber of soldiers this program produced and a possibility of working with them. The students here are held to high standards on a daily basis and are not satisfied with just doing what is just enough. This school has tested me in ways that I have not been tested in the past. Prior to joining the military I was never nervous of taking any...
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...Individual Organizational Transformation Q&A In this paper, the writer will identify and characterize the roles of incentives, training, and education in promoting innovation in his organization according to the level of achievements within the organization. In the author’s organization, everyone has to be held accountable for their own actions and responsible for their own success and failures. However, because the leadership is so strong and thought of every aspect of the organization, following the simple steps to running a successful organization is a proven system that anyone can do. With that being said, if an individual is great at playing follow the leader, than there will be no reason for a great deal of innovation because all that needs to be done, has been done. The one innovation that is promoted rather well in the author’s organization is the transforming of a civilian into a modern day warrior. This is something that leaders teach, but each individual has to find it in them to know what it takes to motivate them to implement the changes that need to be made from within the person. The leaders, which are the brains of this amazing organization, the commissioned officers and staff non-commissioned officers do most of the focusing on the creation of the innovation in this writer’s organization. The leaders that have been in the trenches and made a substantial amount of success within the organization focus more on managing and sustaining the innovation...
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...PHILIPPINE SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT The Philippines generates about 10,000 million tons of solid waste per year and only 12 percent of the waste is recycled and re-used. The single most dominant issue for solid waste management (SWM) is the inadequacy of disposal facilities. Presently, open dumping is still the most common waste disposal method as controlled dumpsites and sanitary landfills (SLFs) are very limited. The opportunities presented by this serious environmental problem to suppliers of solid waste management products and equipment are enormous. The potential, however, is tempered by inadequate funds and technical capability, lack of political will and other problems. Despite the limitations, the market for SWM is still expected to grow five percent in the next three years. The major end-users of SWM products and equipment are the local government units and their private contractors as well as private proponents of SWM projects. The equipment cost and the source of project funding are major purchase considerations of end-users. Overview Solid waste is an environmental problem that has reached critical proportions in the Philippines. Due to a growing population, rapidly increasing consumption and increasing urbanization, waste generated in the Philippines is estimated at 19,700 tons per day. Projections show that waste generation will increase 47 percent by 2010, or 28,875 tons per day. SWM is the responsibility of local government units...
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...Japanese tends to prefer quality over low prices, which constrasts with Walmart core value as Wal mart's motto is Every Day Low Price. Also, Japan is a small country with limited spaces, which has several implications for Walmart. Small housings and apartment sizes, with high rent prices means that Japanese would need to minimize their purchases. Japanese are having trouble with lack of storage room to store purchases. For example, a typical apartment in Japan would be 1 room apartment with Living, Dining, and Kitchen area. A normal size of Japanese apartment are an average of only 27,55 sqm. Japanses likes to make several small purchases frequently. They minimize purchases, they would make their purchases several times a week, in small quantities. This means that stores would have to be readily available within reasonable distance, and bulk purchasing is discouraged. Compared to Walmart usual practice of centralized, big stores, with bulk purchasing to save costs, a neighborhood convenience store would be more suitable for the Japanese people. Japanese have high operating costs, especially because of the prices of rent and buildings in general. An average commercial land prices in Japan is 156,857 Yen (USD 2,017)/sqm, with average commercial land price in Tokyo reaching 1,551,400 Yen (USD 19,956)/sqm, followed by Osaka with average commercial land price of 493,700 Yen (USD 6,360)/sqm. I suppose it is very expensive compared to the U.S. They are also inability to apply original...
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...FENUGREEK RESEARCH COMPANY LTD. FACILITY MANAGEMENT REPORT EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This ten-page facility assessment report presents the findings from a three-week period of investigation in Fenugreek Research Company Ltd and relates recommendations both operationally and strategically which the Fenugreek management is advised to take to resolve the issues that surfaced during the period of investigation. Seven most pressing concerns coming from the Fenugreek staff were each dealt with in detail and suggestions for them were subsequently discussed for its feasibility. The findings of the investigation brought this Facility Manager to the conclusion that there is general dissatisfaction with the current working conditions of Fenugreek Research Company, which must be addressed individually in face of a period of uncertainty and change as the company owners look to float the firm and make it a public concern. The recommendations presented were judged for their practicability and immediacy of solution to the pressing concerns of the Fenugreek employees. INTRODUCTION Although facility management has long been practised by military, government and schools, it is a fairly new business and management discipline. As the role of the physical work environment on performance and productivity started to become more and more evident in studies, so has the field become more and more involved in a business context. In a compilation of over 40 studies of productivity improvement, changes in performance...
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...Economics Assessment – Outcome 3 Market Failure The term market failure means when free running markets within an economy fail to provide all goods and services needed. The government develops a way of controlling these problems, e.g. by providing the economy with some amount of good and services:- Public goods Public goods are goods that are provided by the government to the economy as they are not provided by the private sector as the private sector are unable and unwilling to pay for these goods, as they are of little importance. The private sector are unable to make a profit if they provide these goods as people would be unwilling and unable to pay for these goods/service provided for there to be a profit made. Some of these are:- * Street Lights * Public Parks * Pavements Merit Goods Merit goods are goods and services provided to an economy by the government, as they are not provided by the private sector as they are unable to make a profit from these goods because there would be no one willing to pay for these or maybe even unable to be for them, as these goods/services are seen as not of enough importance. Some of these good are:- * Armed Forces * Health Care * Education Externalities Externalities is when something happens or something some does that could affect someone else. The government intervenes to try and improve negative externalities, by on most occasions introducing new legalisation to reduce these negative...
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...also due to the human behavior of litter. The majority microplastic particles are released from the center point of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The newspaper article will be supporting my position since the article discusses the results of the experiment. The results indicate the microplastic particles are exponentially increasing in an uncountable way. Caron, David D., and Harry N. Scheiber. The Oceans and the Nuclear Age: Legacies and Risks. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2009. The book “The Oceans and the Nuclear Age: Legacies and Risks” by David D Caron and Harry N Scheiber is about the nuclear waste that pollute the water. The book explains studies about the nuclear ages and how the oceans are affected. The nuclear ages are as of now. The book discusses the disposal of radioactive wastes into the ocean and the effect of such disposal. The radioactive wastes in the ocean pollute the ocean and effect the marine life in a dangerous way. The effects and dangers of such pollution can be very scary. The book will be supporting my position since the book discusses the effects and causes of the pollution of the ocean. The radioactive pollution can be underestimated, the effects of radioactive particles on land are already dangerous, many do not understand that there is also radioactive pollution in the water. Newman, Patricia, and Annie Crawley. Plastic, Ahoy!: Investigating the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Millbrook Press, 2014. “Plastic, Ahoy!: Investigating the...
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...laboratories. Storage technicians who will be storing, ordering and then using these substances will have access to this data. Scientific data This is to make sure all scientific results and data from the workplace is safe and retrievable and other sources such as scientific research example. Technicians that will be working in the labs and then the heads and deputies of departments will have access. Scientific equipment This is for the equipment’s purchase, maintenance and schedule data. Heads and deputies of departments and technicians that will be involved in making and changing schedules of equipment. Waste disposal This is for how much and what is produced as waste and how it is disposed of to make sure it’s done correctly and effectively. Technicians that have used the substances and then have to dispose of them, also department heads that will have to authorise costs of these disposals. Health and safety checks This is for the monitoring of the health and safety check being made and results of them also to hold accident reports when necessary. Department heads also health and safety officers or other who will have specific responsibilities and authority. Training records This is for the data of training levels and qualifications of all members of staff. Also to hold and maintain of needed training. Department heads and supervisors, training officers, human resources department and the individual members of staff the information concerns. Quality assurance this is for data to...
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...How to Prevent Pollution “This entire planet is our home. We are the only species that systematically destroy our own habitat."- Marianne Williamson Pollution prevention is an exceptionally major global concern because of the harmful effects of pollution on the person’s health and on the environment. Environmental pollution comes in various forms, such as: air pollution, water pollution, soil pollution, etc. Everyone is a stakeholder as we are all inhabitants of this one and only mother earth. Each person has something to contribute to advance an effective pollution prevention awareness initiative. Environmental protection is caring for us, loving our children and ensuring a sustainable future for generations to come. "If we heal the earth, we heal ourselves." You and I should therefore accept personal responsibility for the success of the environmental protection programs of our respective community by cooperating and actively participating in making the atmosphere pollution free. Help stop pollution today. Although on an individual basis we can help combat pollution in our own immediate environment, efficient control can be best institutionalized through legislation. Thus, most countries have already addressed the issue by passing some form of pollution prevention measures. Averting the onset of pollution in any area, i.e. be it on air, water or land, could be the start and the simplest preventive solution to the problem. This calls for a conscientious effort to adopt...
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