Your Questions About Recycling

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Haha, I know what answer you are looking for. Lets look at the example of plastic bags. The order should always be:
1) Reduce – reduce your use, tell the people bagging your groceries to put it all in 2 bags instead of 5.

2) Reuse that plastic bag to do groceries again or for your lunch or whatever.

3) Recycle – once you have used the bag to its full potential put it in the recycling pile.

Why is this the best order? It is the most energy efficient way to do things. Recycling also takes energy which is sometimes neglected, it is always better to find a 2nd use for something than to recycle it.

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Assuming you are in the United states

The EPA (Environmental Protection Agency – Federal) and DEQ (Department of Environmental Quality – State). Write and govern environmental policy.

The book that identifies all of the Environmental Regulations is called 40 CFR : Protection of the Environment. CFR stands for Code of Federal regulations (www.gpoaccess.gov/ecfr )

Your first questions is too vague. The applicable rules depend on what the company does or what it produces.

Business’ have to deal with Air Permits, Storage Times, Energy usage, Discharge Permits, Disposal Costs, Recycling Cost, Transportation cost.

Greening Inititives, Recycling, alternative disposal methods, and Waste to Energy, are all trends in managing environmental issues.

The main concern with managing any of these new techonolgies is cost.

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The British Govt. Led by Gordon Brown is doing a fine job repairing the UK economy brought on by greedy US banks. No doubt these problems are being dealt with but you don’t read about them in the Daily Mail. I suppose your Eton slime balls would sort all this out in a jiffy.

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Waste management practices differ for developed and developing nations, for urban and rural areas, and for residential and industrial producers. Management for non-hazardous waste residential and institutional waste in metropolitan areas is usually the responsibility of local government authorities, while management for non-hazardous commercial and industrial waste is usually the responsibility of the generator.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_management
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The Expert answers:

It’s great that you are interested in recycling, despite what the rest of your family’s opinions are!

Now, to recycle is really going to depend on what services are offered to you where you live. If you have roadside pickup (if you live in a house), then the waste management “teams” will pick up sorted out recyclables that you have separated into separate bins. If you don’t have those bins, you would need to contact them to get the necessary ones and find out what the rules are for what your local recyclers will accept. If you live in an apartment/condo where the garbage is typically centralized, it will depend on whether there are recycling bins available outside. If not, you can talk to your Homeowner’s Association/Apartment Management to request that they would provide and hope that they agree. If you don’t have either option, then you would need to collect your recyclables and take them to a local recycling location, where you can drop off such recyclables for them to recycle.

What you can recycle will typically depend on where you are as well, for what the recyclers accept and recycle. Many plastics are usually accepted, as is cardboard and newspaper and most other paper. Glass is often accepted (and should be accepted more as it’s easily recyclable). You need to find out the rules in your area to see. Many recyclers don’t want things such as styrofoam, as although it’s recyclable, it’s so light yet takes up so much room that it’s kind of inefficient to transport large quantities of it.

Hope you find things out easy enough and are on the path to regular recycling!

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Slaughter House Waste

India has the world’s largest population of livestock. According to the Ministry of Food Processing, a total of 3616-slaughter houses slaughter over 2 million cattle and buffaloes, 50 million sheep and goat, 1.5 million pigs and 150 million poultry annually, for domestic consumption as well as for export purposes. The waste generated here are liquid and solid in nature. Slaughtering of animals generates waste consisting of non-edible organs, stomach contents, dung, bones and sludge from waste water treatment. Central Pollution Control Board has brought out “Draft guidelines for sanitation in slaughter houses” during August 1998.

Slaughter house types Waste generated
Large 6 – 7 tonnes / day
Medium 2 – 6 tonnes / day
Small 0.5 – 1 tonnes / day

SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT AND THE LAW

Laws concerning solid waste are passed to improve the solid waste management and to regulate the disposal activity, which causes problems in public health, the environment and economics. Many laws apply to the control of solid waste management problems.

Acts, Rules and Notification regarding Solid Waste Management in Inida

Law of Torts
Indian Penal Code, 1860
Code of Civil Procedure, 1908
Constitution of India, 1950
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973
Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974
The Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981
Environment Protection Act, 1986
Hazardous waste (Management & Handling) Rules, 1989
Coastal Regulation Zone Notification, 1991
Bio-medical wastes (Management & Handling) Rules, 1998.
Recycled plastics (Manufacture and Usage) Rules, 1999
Municipal Waste (Management and Handling) Rules 2000
The right to live in a clean and healthy environment is not only a fundamental right guaranteed under Article 21 of our Constitution but also a right recognized and enforced by the courts of law under different laws, like Law of Torts, Indian Penal Code, 1860 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 and Criminal Procedure Code, 1973. The Constitution of India, 1950 the earliest legislation and which is the supreme law of the land has imposed a fundamental duty on every citizen of India under Article 51-A(g) to protect and improve the environment. The obligation on the State to protect the environment is expressed under Article 48 A. The right to live in a healthy environment is also a basic human right. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948 has declared under Article 3 that everyone has the right to life and under Article 25 that everyone has a right to a standard of living adequate for health and well being of himself and of his family.

At the national policy level, the ministry of environment and forests has legislated the Municipal Waste Management and Handling Rules 2000 in exercise of the power conferred under sections 3, 6 and 25 of the Environment Protection Act, 1986. These rules shall apply to every municipal authority responsible for collection, segregation, storage, transportation, processing and disposal of municipal solid wastes.

Composting of wastes is a legal requirement provided under the Municipal Solid Waste Management (MSW) Rules 2000 for all municipal bodies in the country. The MSW Rules 2000 requires that “biodegradable wastes shall be processed by composting, vermi-composting, anaerobic digestion or any other appropriate biological processing for the stabilization of wastes”. The specified deadline for setting up of waste processing and disposal facilities was 31 December 2003 or earlier.

Every municipal authority shall, within the territorial area of the municipality, be responsible for the implementation of the provisions of these rules, and for any infrastructure development for collection, storage, segregation, transportation, processing and disposal of municipal solid wastes.

The Central Government, to perform its functions effectively as contemplated under sections 6, 8, and 25 of the Environment Protection Act, 1986, and has made various Rules, Notifications and Orders including the Bio-medical wastes (Management & Handling) Rules, 1998.

The Expert answers:

Wikipedia has a good definition of waste management.

Waste management is the collection, transport, processing, recycling or disposal of waste materials, usually ones produced by human activity, in an effort to reduce their effect on human health or local aesthetics or amenity. A subfocus in recent decades has been to reduce waste materials’ effect on the natural world and the environment and to recover resources from them.

Waste management can involve solid, liquid or gaseous substances with different methods and fields of expertise for each.

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Waste Management is the term that refers to the collection, processing, recycling, transport, and monitoring of waste products. The waste products means the various materials produced by human activity and is undertaken for reducing their effect on health, environment or aesthetics. Another application of the waste management is to recover the various resources from it. It involves the management of solid, liquid, and gaseous wastes. Each type of waste requires a different methods and fields of expertise. The practices of waste management differ from developed and developing nations. In fact, there is difference in methods used in the urban and rural areas, and also for industrial or residential producers.

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