Integrated Waste Management

Integrated Waste Management

MissionTo conserve, protect, and preserve the environmental resources of our community. To reuse, reduce, recycle, and intelligently dispose of waste materials. To promote composting, pollution and waste prevention, and sustainable living practices.

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Integrated waste management provides four key benefits.

#1 Save Space

Integrated Waste Management#2 Save Natural

Resources#3 Save Energy

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#4 Reduce Pollution

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Step 1 – Reduce

As a society, we should make less waste overall. Consider buying items with little or no packaging, such as tomatoes in bulk or rechargeable batteries

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Step 2 – Reuse Try to reuse items that we normally throw away. Use paper lunch bags multiple times instead of disposing after just one use.

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Step 3 – Recycle

Remember to recycle items that are recyclable. Also, we can “close the recycling loop” by buying items made from and packaged in recycled materials.

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Step 4 – Compost Place yard waste and food scraps either in personal or community compost areas to make humus-rich soil.

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Step 5 – Incineration (waste-to-energy) Burn trash and use the heat to produce energy for power plants, etc. This should be done on the industrial scale, not at a personal level.

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Step 6 – Landfills

Store any leftover waste in a sanitary landfill to reduce the risk to the environment.

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Step 7 – Incineration

(no energy production) Burn trash just to reduce the amount of space it takes up. This is often done on an individual level (outside a single home), but it can also be done on an industrial scale.

Image Resources

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