4 Methods of Proper Waste Management

With today’s population explosion and ever increasing industrialisation there has never been more waste produced. Our environment is directly affected by the way we deal with this waste. Pollutants, pathogens and generally hazardous materials that are not disposed of correctly, destroy habitat, kill wildlife and poison our air and water. A prime example is the ‘Great Pacific Garbage Patch’ a massive soup of plastic rubbish in the Pacific ocean. Plastics in our oceans have been linked to the deaths of 1 000 000 sea birds and 100 000 marine animals every year!

Household Waste Reduction Tips

These days we’re all encouraged to help reduce our carbon footprint and generally become more environmentally friendly. A simple way to do this involving very little effort is to reduce your household waste! With a few changes you can make sure that you don’t continually add to the rubbish going to the landfill. Landfills are sites specifically for the disposal of waste by burial but can cause a number of problems including pollution and contamination so using them as little as possible is in everyone’s best interest.