Waste management Summary

Solid Waste, Measuring We usually know where things come from. The food we buy comes from farms, practically everything else we own comes from factories, and the raw materials to make them come from m... Read more

Waste Disposal Waste management is the handling of discarded materials. Recycling and composting, which transform waste into useful products, are forms of waste management. The management of waste als... Read more

Waste Disposal The massive amount of waste generated every day is a hallmark of affluent, modern society. According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), municipal solid waste--a combination o... Read more

Permanent Retrievable Storage Permanent retrievable storage is a method for handling highly toxic hazardous wastes on a long-term basis. At one time, it was widely believed that the best way of deal... Read more

Solid Waste Solid waste is composed of a broad array of materials discarded by households, businesses, industries, and agriculture. The United States generates more than 11 billion tons (10 billion ... Read more

Solid Waste Volume Reduction Solid waste volume reduction can take place at several points in the waste management process. Solid waste volume reduction can take the form of precycling or reuse beha... Read more

Toxics Use Reduction Legislation In recent years, such disasters resulting from toxic chemicals as those at Love Canal, New York, and in Bhopal, India, have increased awareness of the hazards associ... Read more

Urban Contamination In urban areas where there has been extensive reshaping of the land surface, disturbance from building and road construction, land-filling, and additions of a variety of chemical... Read more

Waste Management The way that we manage our waste materials is a sign of the times. In our agrarian past, throwing garbage out into the street for roving pigs to eat seemed like a perfectly reasonab... Read more

Injection Well Injection wells use high-pressure pumps to inject liquid wastes into under-ground geologic formations (e.g., sandstone or sedimentary rocks with high porosity). Many geologists believe ... Read more

Waste, Transportation Of The transportation of waste is the movement of waste over a specific area by trains, tankers, trucks, barges, or other vehicles. The types of wastes that may be transported ra... Read more

While technology has revolutionized the way people live, it has not come without a direct environmental cost. Toxic waste or electronic waste (e-waste), produced by obsolete electronic products, is gr... Read more