concern has been growing over the disposal of wastes produced by health care facilities in the Philippines. Several reports have cited large‚ albeit inconsistent‚ figures of the amount of infectious waste hospitals in Metro Manila produce daily‚ and little information is available on what is done with these wastes‚ especially after the banning of incineration in the country. More recently‚ these concerns have been fueled by reports that some of these wastes end up in our open dumpsites and in some cases
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(2012) Need of Biomedical Waste Management System in Hospitals - An Emerging issue - A Review PRAVEEN MATHUR‚ SANGEETA PATAN* and ANAND S. SHOBHAWAT Department of Environmental Science‚ MDS University Ajmer - 305 009 (India). (Received: April 24‚ 2012; Accepted: May 27‚ 2012) ABSTRACT Medical care is vital for our life and health‚ but the waste generated from medical activities represents a real problem of living nature and human world. Improper management of waste generated in health care facilities
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Industrial waste is a type of waste produced by industrial activity‚ such as that of factories‚ mills and mines. It has existed since the outset of the industrial revolution.[1] Much industrial waste is neither hazardous nor toxic‚ such as waste fiber produced by agriculture and logging.[2] Toxic waste‚ chemical waste‚ Industrial solid waste and Municipal solid waste are designations of industrial waste. Sewage treatment can be used to clean water tainted with industrial waste. Penalties and fees
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defines waste as “useless or worthless material”. Such materials/items that people no longer use and discard are called as waste. These items range from household rubbish‚ sewage‚ sludge‚ municipal waste‚ waste from manufacturing activity‚ nuclear waste‚ agricultural waste‚ etc. These waste materials if not treated and handled properly can create a number of problems associated with soil‚ air and water. With growing population and material consumption rates‚ Indian cities need adequate waste management
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Protection Agency (EPA) facts for 2010. Before‚ we start let us take a moment to discuss what trash or municipal solid waste (MSW) is. MSW is the collection of commonly used items that discarded by the general populace‚ many of these include packaging‚ food scraps‚ grass clippings‚ sofas‚ computers‚ tires and house appliances (EPA). Although the information from the EPA shows that the waste in pounds per person has increase from 3.66 to 4.43 in the time frame of 1980 and 2010‚ it is the amount the being
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WASTE MANAGEMENT WASTE WASTE • any material “thrown away” • regarded as useless and unwanted (at a certain time and place) KINDS OF WASTE Solid wastes domestic‚ commercial and industrial wastes especially common as co-disposal of wastes Examples: plastics‚ styrofoam containers‚ bottles‚ cans‚ papers‚ scrap iron‚ and other trash Liquid Wastes : wastes in liquid form Examples: domestic washings‚ chemicals‚ oils‚ wastewater from ponds‚ manufacturing industries and other sources CLASSIFICATION
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Studies Research-Based Expository Essay Food Waste Problem in Hong Kong: The current situation and the possible solutions Introduction Renowned as the Food Paradise‚ people all over the world come to Hong Kong for the food here. This definitely creates lots of economics benefits for Hong Kong. Nevertheless‚ this makes the problem of food waste ever more serious. As mentioned by the Environmental Protection Department‚ “In recent years‚ the amount of food waste arising from the C&I sectors has increased
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CASSAVA STARCH AS A MAJOR COMPONENT IN MAKING BIODEGRADABLE PLASTIC ABSTRACT The purpose of this experiment is to be able to help the society with its environmental issues by creating biodegradable plastic out of cassava starch. The procedures that the researchers used in this investigatory project were all experimental and were based on Scientific Method. The researchers used environment-friendly materials which can be made into biodegradable plastics that will not harm the environment and
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CHAPTER II Review of Related Literature Solid waste management is a well-bred terminology that refers to garbage or trash management. As long as humans have been living in settled communities‚ improper waste management has always been an issue. Industrialized nations can generate pounds of solid waste per consumer thus making it a big problem for the world’s undying waste destitution. Waste problem being one of the foremost and mounting problems in other countries have been
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Chapter 5 Review of the Waste Management System in the Philippines: Initiatives to Promote Waste Segregation and Recycling through Good Governance Vella ATIENZA1 Abstract Like other developing countries‚ waste management has become a major problem in the Philippines for the past decades. This paper provides an overview of the waste management and recycling in the Philippines and the responses of the government to address various problems brought about by improper waste management. It reviews
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