1. Types of Waste and Ways to
Reduce Waste Production
Antonio and Devon

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