In my town that is Poblacion, Dingle, Iloilo. The common problem in my town is improper waste disposal. Improper waste disposal may affect our community and health. Through the air we breath and unpleasant smell of garbage in the air. In Poblacion Dingle Iloilo, Some of the people throw their garbage everywhere whenever they want to.
Improper waste disposal focuses on the proper disposal of wastes such as pet waste, litter, leaves, and other yard wastes. When they are disposed of improperly, they become a significant source of stormwater pollution.
I. WASTE MANAGEMENT
Waste Management refers to the recycling, processing, transport, assortment, and monitoring of waste products. The waste products are mainly of three types: solid, liquid or in gas state. Solid waste is known as non-biodegradable waste
Materials and discards that come from sources like:
*Households
*Businesses and Commercial establishments
*Manufacturers or Industrial sites
*Biomedical sources like hospital and clinics.
What is Pollution Caused by Solid Waste?
Solid waste pollution caused when the environment is filled with non- biodegradable and Non- compostable biodegradable. Solid wastes thrown in streets, highways, and waterways can cause pollution when they are carried off by rainwater run-offs or by flood water to the main streams or drainage, as they contaminating residues will reach larger bodies of water.
II. FORMS OF WASTE
There are two forms of Garbage: Biodegradable and Non-Biodegradable
Biodegradable is known as materials that decompose through by of bacteria, fungi, and other living organisms.
Non-Biodegradable is materials that do not decompose or cannot be degraded for so many years. This form of garbage is the main reason of the clogging of drainage.
III. SEGREGATION OF WASTE
Segregation is specifically separation of garbage according to their groups. It is easily for them to manage the recycling process of the garbage. This way the waste hierarchy is needed, the 3R’s (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle).
The first R is reducing. Waste reduction is “conservation”- using natural resources in right manner, and using things less than they usually do to avoid large amount of waste in future. They can practice reduction of waste through buying products that do not need to be added to waste stream in general. They can start making wise package selection.
Second R is for reusing. They can reuse materials from their original form rather than throw it. They may not cost much to replace, but at least, number of waste will be decreased. Instead of buying new durable materials (washing machine, dryers, refrigerator, etc.) when the old one breaks or damaged, why not repair? Or maybe they can give it to those who can use it. Most of the times the item can be repair by those people. That is also form of reusing. New is not always better, nor it is always necessary. They can save money and they will be helping their environment.
Last R stands for recycling. Do not just toss everything in the trash. Lots of things such as cans, bottles, paper, and cardboard can be remade into either the same kind of thing or even new products. Making new items from recycled ones also takes less energy and fewer resources than making products from brand new materials. There is nothing wrong with it. Recycling is not impossible. In fact, it is very easy to do. Do not throw anything that can be recycled.
IV. CAUSES
Contributing causes of improper waste management are:
- Ignorance: Ignorance of people about proper waste disposal. People are unaware of consequence of their unwise acts.
- Laziness: Can cause improper garbage disposal because People not following the correct rules of proper waste disposal their always throw it what place they want and they have no care what will be the effect of it.
- Greed: Can cause improper garbage disposal for example burning of tires of wheel and plastic instead of keeping it or trade the excess automobile car tires to maximize on it.
VI. EFFECTS OF IMPROPER WASTE DISPOSAL
*Affects our health
Like lung diseases, Heart problems, skin irritation, problem or abnormality in breathing and more.
*Affects our climate
As some waste decomposes, it releases greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Like trapping of heat on earth that may effect of abnormality of weather condition like more storm or typhoon coming per year is happening until now. The earth is suffering it already.
*Air pollution
The open burning of waste causes air pollution or greenhouse effect. For example burning of rubber and plastic.
*Landfill gas (which is produced by the decomposition of wastes)
*Methane gas (one of the main components of landfill gas)
Infections to humans
Skin irritations resulting from direct contact with waste, and transmitting bacteria from waste to infected wounds.
Eye irritations resulting from exposure to infected dust, especially during the process of disposing garbage.
Pest and Insects that carry bacteria comes from dirty waste:
a. Flies breed in some constituents of solid wastes, and flies are very effective vectors that can spread disease to humans.
b. Mosquitoes breed in blocked drains and in rainwater or dirty sea’s that is retained in discarded tires, cans and other objects. Mosquitoes spread disease, including malaria and dengue that killed thousands of people in every year.
c. Rats find shelter and food in waste dumps and canals. Rats consume and spoil food and can damage the crops of farmers or crops of people that have business on it, spread disease, damage electrical cables and other materials and inflict unpleasant bites to humans.
We should throw our garbage properly to save Mother Earth
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