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¶ … Solid Waste
In todays capitalistic and consumer driven society enormous amounts of solid waste are produced. For many the moment they deposit the solid waste in its container, that is the moment they forget about it, but that waste has to end up somewhere. Just where this waste will end up and how it will be dealt with is a mystery to many. This public ignorance of the process for managing solid waste has been a problem for our society. According to Koizumi Harumi's essay titled Reducing Waste, solid waste is a serious problem amongst industrialized nations where the amount of solid waste continues to increase both in total and per capita amounts.
Solid waste can be classified into two main categories one is known as industrial solid waste. This type of waste is produced by mining industries, agriculture industries and companies that provide goods and services for the public, industrial waste accounts for about 98% of the solid waste produced, this according to Miller and Spoolman authors of Enviromental Science. The other main type of solid waste is known as municipal solid waste and this type of waste is mainly produced by homes and workplaces. This type of waste is also known as garbage and it includes: paper, plastics, cans, bottles, food containers, plastic bags,...
Hazardous waste is also a category of solid waste that is important to consider.
In the past solid waste has been managed through the use of a few and relatively simple strategies. In developed countries like the United States solid waste is buried in landfills or burned with the use of incinerators. According to Miller in undeveloped countries solid waste mostly ends up in open landfills where the poor seek out goods they can reuse or sell. Most of the solid waste produced in both the industrial and municipal categories takes a very long time to decompose or breakup, so it is important to find new and innovative strategies for dealing with solid waste.
According to Miller there are two main ways that we can deal with solid waste; one is known as waste management. The other is known as waste reduction. The waste management approach attempts to deal with waste in a manner that reduces the impact waste has on the environment without necessarily trying to reduce the total amount of waste produced. This usually involves the mixing of different types of waste together and burying, burning them or moving them to another location. The waste reduction approach seeks to drastically reduce the amount of waste or pollution that is…
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