Household waste management
Household waste management
Introduction
Solid waste is the biggest threat facing the world’s ecosystems today. Managing waste is essential in promoting healthy living cities that can thrive and be disease-free (Kaza et al. 2018). For many cities, this remains a challenge; solid waste management is expensive as it accounts for more than 50% of the world’s pollution. Daily tons of solid waste is being dumped to the seas, forest, and bare ground, and in the long run, they have ended up being a threat to the ecosystem. Waste management figures out ways to which solid waste can be turned into useful products and therefore reduce the chances of garbage damaging the environment (Kaza et al. 2018). Waste management also reduces production costs in that items can be reused. Solid waste management should be implemented in every household to ease the recycling process in this article I will discuss the result of an experiment conducted in a household setting for one week where we categorized the waste obtained during the period into four categories that are: paper product waste, glass waste, plastic waste, food waste, we then analyzed these products by weight and item count and came up with a table shown in the attachments
Plastic waste
It is the majority of waste presently and consists of plastic bags, bottles, jars, tubs, machine parts, and many more. Plastic does not biodegrade; however, they can be reused or recycled therefore it should not be mixed with the other waste but should be separated to be reused
Paper waste
These are materials such as cardboard newspaper shopping bags. They can be easily recycled, and therefore they should be placed in the recycling bin. Paper waste is biodegradable; however, it cannot be used.
Organic waste (Food waste)
They are the most common in households; they include food waste, garden waste, and manure. With time microorganisms convert these wastes into manure; however, this is not an implication that they should be deposited everywhere because they are organic, and they are going to decompose.
Glass waste
Glass waste the minority of the waste, and they can be easily recycled into beautiful vases and lampstands.
Analyzing the result shows that plastic waste is the most difficult to dispose-off the trash is food waste, and it accounts for 45% of the entire total. However, most food waste is organic, and with time they rot out, the primary threat is household waste is plastic, and this shows the harmful impact industrialization has brought about.
Data analysis
The result from this research shows the distribution of household items in percentages, and it is represented in a pie chart, as shown below. The average waste was measured and found to be 1.2kg per capita.
Conclusion
The amount of waste removed by a household is, however, dependent on the lifestyle, the amount of income (Rodrigues et al. 2018). Kuwait is the leading producer of solid waste, and the country is mostly littered; this is attributed to the lack of sufficient landfills to cater to the trash. However, all around the world, wastes are ever-increasing as the population increases.
References
Kaza, S., Yao, L., Bhada-Tata, P., & Van Woerden, F. (2018). What a waste 2.0: a global snapshot of solid waste management to 2050. The World Bank.
Rodrigues, A. P., Fernandes, M. L., Rodrigues, M. F. F., Bortoluzzi, S. C., da Costa, S. G., & de Lima, E. P. (2018). Developing criteria for performance assessment in municipal solid waste management. Journal of cleaner production, 186, 748-757.