Waste management or waste disposal are all the activities and actions required to manage waste from its inception to its final disposal. This includes amongst other things collection, transport, treatment, and disposal of waste together with monitoring and regulation.
Waste can any from that is either solid, liquid or gas and each have different methods of disposal and management. Waste management normally deals with all types of waste whether it was created in forms that are industrial, biological, household and special cases where it may pose a threat to human health.
There are three main types of waste that we need to know about. So we can put the right kind in the right bin for our collection teams:
· Food and garden waste (green service)
· Mixed dry recycling (blue service)
· Non-recyclable waste (black service)
The waste hierarchy refers to the “3Rs” reduce, reuse and recycle, which classify waste management strategies according to their desirability in terms of waste minimization. The waste hierarchy remains the cornerstone of most waste minimization strategies.
Waste disposal options are,
· Dumping/Land filling without processing
· Ocean dumping
· Discharge after treatment
· Incineration of burnable
The strategy highlights a number of policy and legislative proposals of which the most significant are:
· The development of a waste prevention programme.
· The development of a new recycling target for local authority collected municipal waste.
· The introduction of a statutory requirement on waste operators to provide specified data on commercial and industrial waste.
· New and more challenging collection and recycling targets for packaging and waste electrical and electronic equipment.
· The introduction of a landfill restriction on food waste.
· The implementation of legislation on carrier bags.
· The development of detailed proposals for an environmental better regulation bill.
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