Waste Management

Waste Management

Draw

Draw what happens to your trash once it leaves your house.

​Why manage waste?

• To conserve resources and energy

• Reduce water and air pollution

• Saves Landfill space

A waste management technique used on different types of waste that is environmentally, economically and socially sustainable.

Integrated Solid Waste Management (ISWM)

​1. Reduction

• Preferred Method

• Goal is to reduce the amount of waste at the source and reusing waste to have less waste being collected

• Purchasing items with less packaging

• Avoid disposable products

• Compost food scraps to reduce waste

Open Ended

What are the Environmental, Economic and social benefits to this method?

​2. Reuse

• Reduce waste by reusing products instead of throwing them away

• Repair, sell or donate items

• Items such as reusable bags, metal spoons and washable plates

​3. Recycle

• Producing new materials from waste materials

• This process uses less energy and materials than creating new materials

• Reduces the amount of waste in Landfills

• Requires collection, processing and remanufacturing

• EPA claims more than 75% of American waste is recyclable, but only 30% is actually recycled

Draw

Draw what items can be recycled.

​4. Recovery

• Converting waste to energy

  • Burn waste to create energy

• PRO: Reduces waste

• CONS: Creates ash, Not everything can be burned (rubber tires), High environmental and economic cost

​5. Disposal

• Disposal of waste in a Landfill

• Creates Leachate; the breakdown of waste with the addition of rainwater

• Creates harmful gases: Methane and Carbon Dioxide

• Not properly managed

• Leads to Environmental damage such as poor soil and drinking water

Multiple Choice

Which Intergraded Solid Waste Management (ISWM) method is perfered?

• Disposal

• Recycle

• Reduction

• Reuse

Multiple Choice

Which method can result in leachate

• Recover

• Disposal

• Recycle

• Reuse

Multiple Choice

According to the EPA 75% of the waste in American can be recycled. What percentage of waste is actually recycled?

• 20%

• 50%

• 17%

• 30%

Open Ended

Why is it important to have a good Waste management Strategy?