Waste Management Strategies
Waste management is the process of collection,
transportation, and disposal of garbage, sewage, and other waste products.
Waste management encompasses management of all processes and resources for
proper handling of waste materials, from maintenance of waste transport trucks
and dumping facilities to compliance with health codes and environmental regulations.
- 3R Strategy
- Reduce
Reduce
is to make something smaller or use less, resulting in a smaller amount of
waste. “Source reduction” is reducing waste before you purchase it, or by
purchasing products that are not wasteful in their packaging or use.A key part
of waste“ reduction” is “conservation” – using natural resources wisely, and
using less than usual in order avoid waste. You can reduce the amount of waste
you create by choosing what rubbish you throw away.
- Reuse
Reuse is to use again
or more than once. Reuse materials and items so that they have longer life spans
and do not get thrown away after the first use. Many items found around the
home can be used for different purposes. So before you throw those items away,
think about how they can be reused.
- Recycle
Recycle is to convert materials\waste into
reusable material. Landfills are full of items that could be recycled.
Recycling puts objects through a process that allows them to be used again
2. Waste Management Hierarchy
The 3R – reduce,
reuse and recycle are meant to be a hierarchy, in order of importance. Waste
hierarchy classifies waste management strategies according to their desirability.
The aim of the hierarchy is to extract the maximum practical from products are
to generate the minimum amount waste.
3. Extended Producer Responsibility ( EPR)
A strategy designed to promote the integration
of all costs associated with products into the market price of the product.
Cost related to whole life cycle of products are considered. Firms which
manufacture, import and\or sell products are required to be responsible for the
products after their useful life as well as during manufacture. EPR shifts
responsibility for waste from government to producers, importers and\or
sellers. Generally financial incentive are provided by the government to
encourage manufacturers to design environmental friendly products. EPR may take
the form of reuse, buy – back, recycling program or energy production from waste
materials.
4. Polluter pays principle (PPP)
The “Polluters Pays” principal is the commonly
accepted practice that those who produce pollution should bear the costs of
managing it to prevent damage to human health or the environment. For instance,
a factory that produces a potentially poisonous substance as a by product of
its activities is usually held responsible for its safe disposal.
This principle underpins most of the regulation
of pollution affecting land, water and air. Pollution is defined in UK law as
contamination of the land, water or air by harmful or potentially harmful
substances.
Part of a set of boarder principles to guide
sustainable development worldwide (formally now as the 1992 Rio Declaration),
the polluter pays principle has also been applied more specially to emissions
of greenhouse gases which cause climate change.
5. Precautionary Principle
If an action or policy has a suspected risk of
causing harm to the public or to the environment, I the absence of scientific
consensus that the action or policy is harmful, the burden of proof that it is
not harmful falls on those taking the action.
6. Product stewardship
Product stewardship is an environmental
management strategy that means whoever designs, produces, sells, or uses of
product takes responsibility for minimizing the product’s environmental impact
throughout all stages of the products’ life cycle, including end of life
management. The greatest responsibility lies with whoever has the most ability
to affect the full life cycle environmental impacts of the product. This is
most often the producer of the product, through all within the product chain of
commercial have roles.
7. Proximity Principle
The principle of proximity is the tendency for
people to form social relationships with individuals who are physically closer
to them. Proximity means how close an object or person is physically to you.
Someone sitting next to you on a bench is closer is proximity than a person
sitting three rows away. The principle of proximity shows that individuals are
more likely to form social relationships with people who are closer in
proximity to them. You are much more likely to be friend your neighbor or
coworker because you are exposed to them more so than a person who lives
further away or who works at another place. People who are around each other
more are more likely to develop a social relationship.
- Recycle
Recycle is to convert materials\waste into
reusable material. Landfills are full of items that could be recycled.
Recycling puts objects through a process that allows them to be used again
2. Waste Management Hierarchy
The 3R – reduce,
reuse and recycle are meant to be a hierarchy, in order of importance. Waste
hierarchy classifies waste management strategies according to their desirability.
The aim of the hierarchy is to extract the maximum practical from products are
to generate the minimum amount waste.
3. Extended Producer Responsibility ( EPR)
A strategy designed to promote the integration
of all costs associated with products into the market price of the product.
Cost related to whole life cycle of products are considered. Firms which
manufacture, import and\or sell products are required to be responsible for the
products after their useful life as well as during manufacture. EPR shifts
responsibility for waste from government to producers, importers and\or
sellers. Generally financial incentive are provided by the government to
encourage manufacturers to design environmental friendly products. EPR may take
the form of reuse, buy – back, recycling program or energy production from waste
materials.
4. Polluter pays principle (PPP)
The “Polluters Pays” principal is the commonly
accepted practice that those who produce pollution should bear the costs of
managing it to prevent damage to human health or the environment. For instance,
a factory that produces a potentially poisonous substance as a by product of
its activities is usually held responsible for its safe disposal.
This principle underpins most of the regulation
of pollution affecting land, water and air. Pollution is defined in UK law as
contamination of the land, water or air by harmful or potentially harmful
substances.
Part of a set of boarder principles to guide
sustainable development worldwide (formally now as the 1992 Rio Declaration),
the polluter pays principle has also been applied more specially to emissions
of greenhouse gases which cause climate change.
5. Precautionary Principle
If an action or policy has a suspected risk of
causing harm to the public or to the environment, I the absence of scientific
consensus that the action or policy is harmful, the burden of proof that it is
not harmful falls on those taking the action.
6. Product stewardship
Product stewardship is an environmental
management strategy that means whoever designs, produces, sells, or uses of
product takes responsibility for minimizing the product’s environmental impact
throughout all stages of the products’ life cycle, including end of life
management. The greatest responsibility lies with whoever has the most ability
to affect the full life cycle environmental impacts of the product. This is
most often the producer of the product, through all within the product chain of
commercial have roles.
7. Proximity Principle
The principle of proximity is the tendency for
people to form social relationships with individuals who are physically closer
to them. Proximity means how close an object or person is physically to you.
Someone sitting next to you on a bench is closer is proximity than a person
sitting three rows away. The principle of proximity shows that individuals are
more likely to form social relationships with people who are closer in
proximity to them. You are much more likely to be friend your neighbor or
coworker because you are exposed to them more so than a person who lives
further away or who works at another place. People who are around each other
more are more likely to develop a social relationship.
No comments:
Post a Comment