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Waste Management Strategies

W

aste 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. It also encompasses the legal and regulatory framework that relates to waste management encompassing guidance on recycling.

Waste can take any form 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.  It is produced due to human activity such as when factories extract and process raw materials. Waste management is intended to reduce adverse effects of waste on health, the environment or aesthetics. The countries should have committed to sustaining a healthy environment and a vibrant economy. Consistent with this commitment, there has been a fundamental shift in the way we view solid waste. It is now recognized that solid waste is a resource that can result in the creation of jobs through cost effective and environmentally responsible management.

For an example, achieve this goal, the Department of the Environment, after extensive consultation with municipal governments and the people of Nova Scotia, has developed a forward-looking "Solid Waste-Resource Management Strategy." The Strategy will ensure that the people of this province receive the maximum environmental and economic benefits while minimizing the potential increases in the cost of managing solid waste.

Some of waste management strategies are;                        

Achievement	Lead by example with sustainable policies and practices
Dedication	Seek integrated waste management solutions including diversion
Collaboration/Transparency	Facilitate cooperation and collaboration, including encouraging partnerships
Service to our Community	Engage the community to ensure the SWMS meets their needs and objectives
Sustainability/Integrity	Recognize waste is a resource and find solutions that support reduction, reuse, recycling and energy recovery before disposal
Continuous Improvement	Invest in infrastructure with the flexibility to accommodate growth, changing policies and encourage innovation

The Solid Waste Resource Management Strategy include these benefits:

§  Bans on the disposal of beverage containers, corrugated cardboard, newsprint, scrap tires, used oil, lead-acid batteries, waste paint, automotive antifreeze, glass food containers, steel/tin cans, selected plastics and compostable organic materials.

§  Expansion of the current deposit/refund system on beer and liquor bottles to include all beverage containers with the exception of milk. Milk containers will be recycled through province-wide collection programs.

§  The number of active landfills will be reduced by approximately 75 percent. Currently, there are 40 active landfills in the Province. All landfills will have to meet the Department of the Environment's new stricter guidelines to prevent leachate and other problems associated with the current variety.

§  In order to ensure that cost increases are minimized, municipal units will be encouraged to cooperate on a regional scale. It is recommended seven solid waste resource management regions be established.

§  The Department of the Environment estimates the Strategy will cost each Nova Scotian an additional 50 cents a week.

§  Solid waste resources will be used to create new employment in Nova Scotia through the production of value-added goods. The Department of the Environment and the Resource Recovery Fund are working on plans to use scrap tires as the feedstock for a reprocessing plant. Other innovative plans include composting and Nova Scotia-based reprocessing of plastics, corrugated cardboard, disposable diapers and aseptic containers, such as juice packs. The Strategy will create approximately 600 jobs in recycling, collection and environmental industries. These jobs will be primarily in the private sector.

§  The Resource Recovery Fund will be a private sector, industry driven, non-profit organization. It will be charged with the marketing of recyclable materials in order to ensure Nova Scotia's environmental industries have a critical mass of feedstock from domestic sources. These materials will be used to establish industries based on the processing of recyclables.

§  The Strategy will involve diversion of 60 to 70 percent of household hazardous waste from disposal facilities.

§  The innovative environmental technologies developed for use in Nova Scotia will be marketed to other jurisdictions that are facing the same challenges.

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Fonseka S.A.N.S                               162447K

Gunasekara I.V.W                             162446T

Maathangi S.                                     162697L

Pushpakumari M.N.A                        162719J

Silva M.W.L.R.K                              162438V

Waste Management Strategies

Waste Management Strategies

Waste management is 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.

Principals of waste management

• Segregation at source-ward or unit level
• Color coding to support source segregation
• Identify destination of each type of waste
• Transport safely to pick up site
• Ensure safe disposal
• Keep track of usage

What are wastes?

Waste is a wide ranging term encompassing most unwanted materials, defined by the Environmental Protection Act 1990. Waste includes any scrap material, effluent or unwanted surplus substance or article that requires disposal because it is broken, worn out, contaminated or otherwise spoiled.

How to reducing waste costs

Step 1: Accounting for Waste

Step 2: Comparing your performance with others

Step 3: Identifying waste minimization opportunities

Step 4: Commitment to action

Step 5: Taking action to reduce waste

Step 6: Recognizing success and maintaining momentum

Strategies

1. Understand the legal implications of the waste produced in your organization by identifying the specific legislation that affects you.
2.  Look at your general environmental issues – what role does waste play in these? 
3. Quantify and identify your waste. Where does it arise and how much does it cost? Undertake a walk around audit and look at your bills. Using the waste hierarchy, identify what currently happens to the waste as it arises.
4. Identify a waste management champion or team to drive things forward.
5. Produce an action plan for reducing your wastes 
6. Get commitment from senior management for the action plan.
7. Identify the possible disposal options where you cannot reduce or recycle.
8. Select your waste carriers carefully and make sure your Duty of Care responsibilities are met. 
9. Monitor and review your achievements.
10. Communicate your successes to your staff, senior managers and outside your organization to interested stakeholders.

Waste management is crucial to reducing your organization’s impact upon the environment. It is also a fundamental requirement in achieving efficient cost savings and a better financial return for your business.

The waste hierarchy remains the cornerstone of most waste minimization strategies. The aim of the waste hierarchy is to extract the maximum practical benefits from products and to generate the minimum amount of waste. The waste hierarchy is represented as a pyramid because the basic premise is for policy to take action first and prevent the generation of waste.

Benefits of waste management

•        Economical benefits
•             Social benefits
•             Environmental benefits
•        Inter-generational Equity 

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Waste Management Strategies - Group 15

Waste management strategies

Raw materials are becoming scarcer and energy more expensive, and all around the world, soil, air and water pollution pose a risk to sustainable development. Waste management is closely associated with both these problems: waste disposal issues are exacerbated by changing patterns of consumption, industrial development and urbanisation; this in turn means that traditional systems for solid waste disposal and recycling are no longer appropriate. This problem affects informal settlements in particular.

waste is increasingly being used to produce both materials and energy, and recycling now saves more greenhouses gases than it generates. However, many developing and emerging countries are faced with the major challenge of improving their inadequate and unsustainable waste management systems. Waste must no longer be deposited in residential areas and uncontrolled landfills or end up on illegal rubbish tips and in waterways. It accumulates in the world’s oceans as marine litter, and is blown across continents and pulverized by the action of the wind, sun and waves.

Development cooperation projects are not doing enough to take account of and analyse technical, organisational and financial strategies for sustainable waste and resource management and previous experience with the issue; these factors should feature more prominently in the sectoral discussion at national and international level. Waste management is connected with many other areas, including urban development, water, energy and food security. Technical, organisational and financial strategies for sustainable waste and resource management are incorporated into the sectoral discussion at national and international level and in development cooperation projects.

Strategy development activities focus on the following topics:

• Waste-to-energy technologies
• Technologies
• Avoidance of marine litter
• Electronic waste
• Economicinstruments 

In addition, identifies ways in which waste management can contribute to urban development and climate change mitigation. It also incorporates experience in waste management into activities.

Jayawardana P.B.                  162418K

Nuwangi P.D.                          162429U
Sivapathasundaram A.          162672G
Mendis W.J.S.                         162428P

Weerakoon H.D.                     162702C

Group 26 Waste management strategies

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Group 21 Waste management strategies

Group Members #Ashan H.K.K. 162449F #Jayathilake W.A.D.L. 162635X #Muthupatinge M.S.A.P. 162448C #Prasanga A.M.L. 162712G #Thilakarathne A.H. 162678F