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WASTE MANAGEMENT DEFINITION
It can be defined as “the generation, prevention, characterization, monitoring, treatment, handling, reuse and residual disposition of solid wastes.”
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The Issues that are Related to Waste Management
o Minimizing and removing waste
o The generation of waste
o Transporting wasteo Recycling and reusingo Waste treatmento The storage
o Collection and transfer of waste
o The environmento landfillso Policy and regulation of
wasteo The financial ramifications
of wasteo Education and training
about wasteo Implementation and
planning
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Common Ideas in All Waste Management Definitions
When the waste hierarchy is discussed, it refers to reducing, reusing and recycling which refer to waste management strategies.
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ReducingReducing
Is at the top of the hierarchy because it focuses on preventing the damage that is done by tossing trash in the garbage.
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ReuseReuse
In the hierarchy because it minimizes the damage done by waste.
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RecyclingRecycling
Including composting. After this is recovery of materials.
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DisposalDisposal
A last resort for waste.
The waste hierarchy represents the progression of a material through the stages in the pyramid that follow sequentially.
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Core idea of the waste management definition is the life-cycle of products
DESIGN
MANUFACTURE
USE
WASTE HIERARCHY
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Then it will go through the waste hierarchy:
reusing products
recovering them
recycling waste
waste disposal
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Each of these stages in the life cycle presents an opportunity to intervene with policy, to make us question the need for a product, to reduce the potential of waste, and to extend the period of time that we use it.
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The third idea of the waste management definition is resource efficiency
This idea is centered around reducing the negative impact
of our production and consumption from using raw materials to our last use and
disposal.
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Polluter Pays Principle
One last idea completing the waste management is this principle dictates that the
party that pollutes must pay for the negative impact it
causes on the earth.
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