importance of waste management
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Importance of Waste management.
1. Environmentally friendly:a. Correct ways of waste management especially industrial waste can keep our environment from pollution.b. Example:i. Heavy metal such as mercury which can harm to our ecosystem. Proper disposal required.ii. Nuclear waste to prevent radiation to our natural environment.2. Waste causes resource depletion. This is due to the common buying pattern: buy,throw, and then buy again. As the waste piles up high, the demand for more productsalso rises, almost exhausting the natural resources. This has a spiral effect, mainlyinvolving threats to biodiversity, deforestation, pollution, and other environmental problems
Waste management
is the collection, transport, processing, recycling or disposal,and monitoring of waste materials. The term usually relates to materials produced byhuman activity, and is generally undertaken to reduce their effect on health, theenvironment or aesthetics. Waste management is also carried out to recover resources from it. Waste management can involve solid, liquid, gaseous or radioactive substances, with different methods and fields of expertise for each
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