Environmental Waste Management
Environmental waste management is the process of management and
disposal of waste material that is produced from different types of
human activities in a way that it does not impact on the environment and
not produce any environmental pollution. The environmental waste is
generated from a large number of sources which includes the industries,
construction and development, human daily life routine and other
appliances including types of equipment being used by the human.
The waste impacts negatively on the natural environment of the world and induces land pollution, water pollution or air pollution. Therefore, it is necessary to minimize, reduce, dispose or manage the waste being produced. There are several techniques for waste management which are aimed to reduce its negative impact on human and animal health as well as the natural environmental resources.
The waste management and its reduction from the environment is the critical and considerable issue since several centuries as it has various negative impacts on the human health. The initial waste management was done by dumping the waste at the places that are far away from the living societies in order to reduce its impacts on human health. But due to the increase in population throughout the world, the idea became unacceptable.
After that, the solid waste was started to be dumped in the deep soil of the land and the liquid waste was dumped and spilled in the rivers, lakes, and ocean. This idea was practiced for a long period of time as it reduced waste on a large scale with reduced direct impact on human health. As the farming culture was raised in different regions of the world, the land which was dumped with waste was proved to be barren or producing poisonous food. On the other hand, the water supply from the lakes and rivers also proved to be harmful after the contamination of waste in it. These issues raised serious concerns for the authorities and states due to which several committees and agencies were formed to solve the issue in the early 1990s.
The waste management authorities then implied rules and regulations on the industries and companies to reduce their manufacturing and processing waste and each industry was allowed a specific amount of waste to dump into the land, water or air. The industries started several strategies to reduce their waste according to the environmental regulation.
Now the environmental waste management has entered into a new era of recycling and reusing according to which the produced solid or liquid waste can be recycled or reused in the same industry or in some other industry due to the invention of innovative techniques. The concept of life cycle waste assessment has also developed according to which a product is designed in such a way that it can anticipate the lowest amount of waste during its total life cycle which includes its manufacturing, process, utilizing and decomposing.
The most innovative technology is the life cycle assessment of the solid waste materials. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) usually based on four waste management strategies.
1) Landfill without biogas utilization,
2) Landfill with bio-gas combustion to generate electricity,
3) Sorting plant which splits the inorganic waste portion that is generally used to produce electricity from the organic waste part and it can produce biogas through the anaerobic digestion of the living organisms, and
4) Direct burning of waste.
The waste impacts negatively on the natural environment of the world and induces land pollution, water pollution or air pollution. Therefore, it is necessary to minimize, reduce, dispose or manage the waste being produced. There are several techniques for waste management which are aimed to reduce its negative impact on human and animal health as well as the natural environmental resources.
Evolution of Environmental Waste Management
The waste management and its reduction from the environment is the critical and considerable issue since several centuries as it has various negative impacts on the human health. The initial waste management was done by dumping the waste at the places that are far away from the living societies in order to reduce its impacts on human health. But due to the increase in population throughout the world, the idea became unacceptable.
After that, the solid waste was started to be dumped in the deep soil of the land and the liquid waste was dumped and spilled in the rivers, lakes, and ocean. This idea was practiced for a long period of time as it reduced waste on a large scale with reduced direct impact on human health. As the farming culture was raised in different regions of the world, the land which was dumped with waste was proved to be barren or producing poisonous food. On the other hand, the water supply from the lakes and rivers also proved to be harmful after the contamination of waste in it. These issues raised serious concerns for the authorities and states due to which several committees and agencies were formed to solve the issue in the early 1990s.
The waste management authorities then implied rules and regulations on the industries and companies to reduce their manufacturing and processing waste and each industry was allowed a specific amount of waste to dump into the land, water or air. The industries started several strategies to reduce their waste according to the environmental regulation.
Innovative Waste Management Technologies
Now the environmental waste management has entered into a new era of recycling and reusing according to which the produced solid or liquid waste can be recycled or reused in the same industry or in some other industry due to the invention of innovative techniques. The concept of life cycle waste assessment has also developed according to which a product is designed in such a way that it can anticipate the lowest amount of waste during its total life cycle which includes its manufacturing, process, utilizing and decomposing.
The most innovative technology is the life cycle assessment of the solid waste materials. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) usually based on four waste management strategies.
1) Landfill without biogas utilization,
2) Landfill with bio-gas combustion to generate electricity,
3) Sorting plant which splits the inorganic waste portion that is generally used to produce electricity from the organic waste part and it can produce biogas through the anaerobic digestion of the living organisms, and
4) Direct burning of waste.
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