1. Types of Waste and Ways to
Reduce Waste Production
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2. High waste approach
Waste production is unavailable trying to cut down on it
blend high-level waste with uranium mine and mill tailings down
to the level of the original radioactivity .
Dealing with waste in ... found to have high levels of the toxin.
Millions of animals and birds have died from the toxins.
3. Ways to Reduce wastes
The main 4 solid wastes that the US produces:
• Aluminum
• Rubber
• Food
• plastic
Ways to reduce waste:
• Reuse – aluminum can be reused many times over, as can bottles,
bags, etc.
• Recycle – if you do not wish to reuse something (or can not) then
recycling companies will take the materials and reuse them for other
objects.
• Composting – gets rid of food and naturally degradable waste.
4. How solid waste can be eliminated
Attempts to manage the wastes that results from economic
growth in ways that reduce environmental harm.
Mixing and often crushing wastes together and then
burning them, or shipping them to other states .
Solid waste is the unwanted or useless solid materials
generated from combined, residential, industrial and
commercial activities in a given area.
5. Waste Reduction and low waste approach
over high waste approach.
High waste approach:
Allows waste
Only tries to slow landfills, not stop or diminish.
Low waste approach:
Reuses usable waste
Reduces landfills over time
Cuts down on waste as it is being produced.
6. 4 r’s
Repair-something that needs be fixed
Recycle-make over again a used product
Remanufacture- redesign it /change
Reuse- recycle
7. Low Waste Approach
No “away” in “throw away”
Mimics nature in that everything should be reusable in
some way
Diminishes landfills by reusing the materials
In doing so it also cuts production costs and prevents most
of the production waste
Make products longer lasting
Etc.
8. Summary
Low waste approach is better than high waste approach in
that it seeks to get rid of all waste and mimics nature
4 R’s
no away in throw away
High waste approach
Low waste approach
Types of solid waste
