Types of Waste and Ways to Reduce Waste Production

Antonio and Devon

High waste approach

Waste production is unavailable trying to cut down on it

blend high-level waste with uranium mine and mill tailings down to the level of the original radioactivity .

Dealing with waste in ... found to have high levels of the toxin. Millions of animals and birds have died from the toxins.

Ways to Reduce wastesThe main 4 solid wastes that the US produces:

• Aluminum

• Rubber

• Food

• plastic

Ways to reduce waste:

• Reuse – aluminum can be reused many times over, as can bottles, bags, etc.

• Recycle – if you do not wish to reuse something (or can not) then recycling companies will take the materials and reuse them for other objects.

• Composting – gets rid of food and naturally degradable waste.

How solid waste can be eliminated

Attempts to manage the wastes that results from economic growth in ways that reduce environmental harm.

Mixing and often crushing wastes together and then burning them, or shipping them to other states .

Solid waste is the unwanted or useless solid materials generated from combined, residential, industrial and commercial activities in a given area.

Waste Reduction and low waste approach over high waste approach.

High waste approach:

Allows waste

Only tries to slow landfills, not stop or diminish.

Low waste approach:

Reuses usable waste

Reduces landfills over time

Cuts down on waste as it is being produced.

4 r’s

Repair-something that needs be fixed

Recycle-make over again a used product

Remanufacture- redesign it /change

Reuse- recycle

Low Waste Approach

No “away” in “throw away”

Mimics nature in that everything should be reusable in some way

Diminishes landfills by reusing the materials

In doing so it also cuts production costs and prevents most of the production waste

Make products longer lasting

Etc.

Summary

Low waste approach is better than high waste approach in that it seeks to get rid of all waste and mimics nature

4 R’s

no away in throw away

High waste approach

Low waste approach

Types of solid waste