HOUSEHOLD WASTE

1. HOUSEHOLD WASTE

2. What is waste? It 's a waste any material derived from a human activity and is intended to abandonment or destruction. Waste is classified as urban or special, depending on their origin, and hazardous or non-hazardous, depending on their characteristics. The household waste, even those bulky, garbage, vegetable waste from gardens and parks: these are waste. Special, however, are derived from industrial processes, as well as commercial, recovery and disposal of municipal waste are sludges from treatment and wastewater treatment, substances and objects is of healthcare equipment and vehicles motor. Hazardous waste, municipal or special, are all those that contain within them high doses of dangerous substances, such as expired medicines or waste batteries (municipal waste) or waste oil refining, chemical industry, metallurgy, leather tanning and textiles (special) and therefore must be managed with specific procedures. The production and waste management in the last decades has shown that growth - from the mid-90s the Italian has almost doubled - to make it one of the most pressing issues for the future of the planet. Today, in fact, most end up in landfills or is incinerated.

3. What is household waste? Solid waste comprising of garbage and rubbish (such as bottles, cans, clothing, compost, disponsables, food packaging, food scraps, newspapers and magazines, and yard trimmings) that originates from private homes or apartments. It may also contain household hazardous waste. Also called domestic waste or residential waste.

4. Causes The lack of information and the few skills, combined with safe and perverse economic and political interests that have made that the management of waste disposal fall into the hands of criminal organizations "ecomafia" do nothing but increase the emergency, while the capacity remaining landfills in our country is a warning that you should not ignore, but which, on the basis of current and future needs, require the immediate operational and technological solutions. In many Italian regions there are few checks and misused is the collection of waste. Waste is a cultural problem, missing information, missing the solution and the waste products are still provisional and insufficient contributions in landfills. The situation becomes even more dramatic when it comes to waste, toxic factories, industries and hospitals, which have to undergo more complex processes because they contain highly polluting substances.

5. Plastic The plastic is harmful because of its indestructibility and STAY when dispersed. Not being biodegradable, it does not dissolve very slowly shatters into smaller and smaller pieces.Shattering formats reaches more minutes so that it can be ingested by any organism that lives in the oceans and the tiny crustaceans krill or salps that make up the zooplankton to get up to the whale.1999: Charles Moore taking samples of water at various levels of depth and analyzing the content in the lab found that these microparticles plastics exceeded the percentage of zooplankton present in the water medium in a ratio of 6 to 1 and 30 to 1 in areas most affected.2007 percentage of plastic has grown fivefold.

6. Damages Globally, at least 143 marine species that have been victims of plastic (entangled in bags, nets or other plastic waste and eventually die of starvation, suffocation or drowning) with almost all species of sea turtles that swallow bags mistaking them for jellyfish.Being plastic what caused the death of the animal returns free to do other damage once the 'body has decomposedIt is not possible to determine the total number of different species of marine life every year are victims of plastic, but according to a recent estimate seems that at least 1 million seabirds and 100,000 marine mammals and sea turtles die each year by entanglement or ingestion of plastic.

8. Midway The United Nations estimates that each of us uses about 140 kilograms of plastic each year. And at least 6.4 million tons of it is over the oceans. The United Nations estimates that each of us uses about 140 kilograms of plastic each year. And at least 6.4 million tons of it is over the oceans.

9. Legambiente GOLETTA VERDE indicates the presence of real plastic islands in the Mediterranean Sea, especially in the Tyrrhenian Sea, that is, where there has made ​​the research of the environmental 136 hours to 3,000 km of coast from Genoa to the Straits of Messina. 95% of waste into the sea consisting of plastic, 41% of which consists of bags, envelopes, and fragments, 13 different species of waste per square kilometer.

10. Produce less waste The problem of waste disposal is becoming a priority on the agenda of the directors at the global level: landfills, incinerators and indiscriminate abandonment in the territory of each type of waste have become real emergencies social as well as environmental.A really serious problem that can not remain indifferent and in front of which there seems to be a way out of obligation: to try to produce less waste and pollution as possible.It 'important that this simple message becomes part of our daily actions, at all levels. Separate collection is the most economical and environmentally sustainable way of managing waste . Its supply chain creates jobs in the area, enhances what we discard conveying a social message important , pollutes little, is easily controlled by the citizens themselves and , very importantly , allows you to recover 65-85 % of MSW ( municipal solid waste) . The collection enhances the rejection because it recovers and regenerates , consuming much less energy in the recycling process compared to producing raw materials . Create wealth, because the denial is true , and responds to their true market rules and respects the environment because it does not leave the burden of disposing of waste to nature.Produce less waste, you can.

11. All together for a clean world