Question

Article on segregating disposal in a sensible proposal in 120 words

Answer 1

Everything around us is polluted.
Creation of waste is almost inescapable in today's world.
Pollution cause many types of health hazards.
They also disturb the ecological balance.
However, if segregation and disposing of waste are done properly, it lessen the amount of contaminant that enters the environment.
All wastes are not equally reusable.
Some wastes are so dangerous that they fall into a group of their own termed as the perilous waste.
You can easily reduce all types of waste with changes in your habits.
Proper sanitation and uses of products helps in lessening waste.
Color codes of the garbage bags should be maintained. Green should be used for biodegradable, yellow for toxic waste and black for non biodegradable.

Answer 2

In preparation for the replacement our old computers with new ones here in our company I strongly suggests that all obsolete and non-working machines be recycled and must be disposed of properly according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA ) Standards of Recycling in order not to destroy the environment from its hazardous components. "The EPA estimates that, in 2009, 438 million electronic products were sold on the US, and 2.5 million tons were ready for end-of-life management; both numbers are increasing substantially each year" (www.epa.gov, 2012, Electronics Challenge, p. 1). "Computers also contain other hazardous materials, including mercury, cadmium (a known carcinogen, and hexavalent chromium (shown to cause high blood pressure, iron-poor blood, liver disease, and nerve and brain damage in animals)". (Meyer, El Ella, & Young, 2004. Imagining if we have 500 computers to dispose of, including its monitors attached to it, we are leaving approximately 3,000 lbs. of lead in the ground contaminating our environment if we do not recycle them properly. 

First step is the creation of a Disposal Team consisting of at least three IT personnel of our company and be responsible in the proper disposal of all the old machines by forwarding it to a third-party recycling organization. The team shall first take inventory not only the computers but also the monitors attached, non-working printers, fax machines, and copiers. Everything should be accounted for and make sure nothing will be just sitting around or just piling up somewhere in the workplace and suggest that this assessment must be done regularly. The team will also be responsible in reformatting and removing the hard drives using applicable security software in cleaning all the information of the hard drives to prevent